tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post7739959647563447039..comments2024-03-03T13:02:17.380-05:00Comments on Listen Eggroll: Festival Flashback: Week of 13 Mar.md'ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-21755343309789146382009-03-20T14:43:00.000-04:002009-03-20T14:43:00.000-04:00Thank you thank you thank you for pointing this ou...Thank you thank you thank you for pointing this out. Remember that Scottish movie from a couple years ago, RED ROAD, where she spends the whole movie alluding to some sort of deep trauma in her recent past, and at the end, it gets revealed, and it's pretty much right on par with what anybody would have figured, but it really doesn't add anything to the story because by the time of the reveal all we really don't know is what precise form the trauma took, and it really turns out that it doesn't matter what precise form the trauma took?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks.Adam Villanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10694072629634740634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-69865129365383509742009-03-15T03:01:00.000-04:002009-03-15T03:01:00.000-04:00Kinda. Exotica was about how everyone and everyth...Kinda. Exotica was about how everyone and everything rearranged when the revelation hit, not the "oh so that's why that dude has issues" light bulb most movies cough up. Mindfuck movies are about presenting revelations in interesting ways; I haven't seen Sunshine Cleaning either, but the whiff I get from Mike's review makes it sound like A + B and wait till the script finally doles out C. Exotica made me feel like the entire movie was about its Incident, even though that incident is never onscreen. We know Bad Stuff Happened, what makes it interesting is <I>how</I> it connects the characters (not simply that it does).Michael Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439077233958183327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-35168153062773483392009-03-13T17:17:00.000-04:002009-03-13T17:17:00.000-04:00I haven't seen this film, but that particular stor...I haven't seen this film, but that particular story structure certainly worked in Exotica. Although the "revelation" was certainly understated.Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09213260380203964632noreply@blogger.com