5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wherever you go - There You are, February 5, 2005
This review is from: Soho Square (DVD)
I like movies that try to make you think. I like movies that cause you to have an emotional as well as a cerebral response. This is one such movie.
Readers who are familiar with British tv shows may have come across a show called Taggart starring the late Mark McManus. One of the most distinctive aspects to that show aside from the thick Glaswegian accents was the grisly deatils involved in the murders. A similar yet different tale from a psychological view would be the early Cracker.
Here the movie diverges from the television shows. One of the most endearing features of this movie was the way the whole thing fitted together as if we were seeing the drama from the eyes of the main character. Sometime drunk, sometime sober, sometime in the real world sometime in a fantasy involving the suicide of his wife, it is almost as if the viewer isbeing swept along within the turbulent currents that make up this man's life. Characters come and go impacting on his conciousness. The music often dischordant heightens the dramatic effect. Is it real or is it a dream?
The movie reminds me of the work of Robert Nozick, 'Anarchy, State and Utopia, where the reader is taken from outside of the experience through the experience and emerges from the other side with a different perspective. Has he or she altered the experience or has it altered her/him.
This is a clever movie which also reminds me of the notion of illusion. Nothing is real and nothing to get hung up about. When the conclusion arrives it almost creeps up on you slowly, gradually emerging so that the viewer tends to suddenly realise what has been going on.
I found this a very moving and disturbing movie yet oddly satisfying. On many levels it certainly has generated some considerable debate within the walls of chez jingles. Certainly worth watching again but I could not bring myself to give it five stars as it is raising more questions than it answers. For followers of British writing it seems to me that if you like 'Report on Probability A' by Brian Aldiss or some of the early J.G. Ballard then you will probably like this movie.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Painfully boring, April 5, 2005
This review is from: Soho Square (DVD)
This is a generic boring movie with some guy who thinks he is the London version of Colombo. I got so bored with it that I skimmed, and skimmed, and skimmed, and skimmed...etc...etc NOTHING HAPPENS. This is pathetic. They should have called this movie "the day in the life of a dork" since the movie has what I call a slew of "time killer scenes" for example: we have time enough to watch this guy sleep, then time enough to watch him take a very long shower. Time enough to watch a girl dance. Time enough to watch him shower again. Then time to watch him take a long walk down a city sidewalk. This movie stinks, that's all there is to it. The definition of H E L L is being strapped to a chair for an eternity to watch this garbage over and over again. Anyone that would give this more than 3 stars either lives under a rock, or is in someway connected to the making of this movie
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It isn't the film, it's the script, April 24, 2005
This review is from: Soho Square (DVD)
I don't like movies that act as if they'll make you think but then turn out to be lousy stories badly told smothered in pretentious film school non-linear narrative Crapola. Just because it is impressive for something made so cheaply doesn't mean it's actually worth watching if you want to see an actually well-made movie. It is creepy, but I had guessed the whole stupid plot by 10 minutes in. So all the crazy flashbacks were just annoying to me, & not as confusing and ridiculous as they were for my friend.
I LOVE indie film when it doesn't stink. I hated this movie.
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