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by fabio 10/28/2014, 6:00am PDT |
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Vested Id wrote:
More like Birdy Rock :D :
Hope you love walk and talk, a director with a tin ear for dialogue, tinner ear for culture (hopefully you already know about Raymond Carver going in), a lot of real cool references, and unintended irony all over the place - a character who knows all the LINES and has a face full of LINES, a scene where it looks like two girls may make out then they do, a scene where two guys look like they might make out then they beat each other up instead. Whenever they remember the main character is supposed to be a little crazy things become more interesting, though they don't even come close to making sense of those parts at all, they're just there to give you a break from the incredibly familiar tropes and incredibly naked intentions.
It's a lot closer to movies like Radioland Murders and Oscar than you would think, with brief splashes of Amelie (the schizophrenia parts).
He lets you know right from the beginning what kind of movie this is going to be with a literal riff on the opening credits of Pierrot le Fou, for no apparent reason and in a cornier way than you could expect.
One take!
That's how I feel whenever I hear people go off on how great Robert Altman is. Not only is incomprehensible, overlapping dialog the most overrated innovation in cinema, but everyone acts like the long take in the opening to The Player was not only never done before, but that it was never done better and far less self-referential and masturbatory. |
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