William Amerman's Blog - Posts Tagged "lazy-assed-writer"
The Fountain - part 2
Ah, now I sort of get it after finishing the movie last night. Beautiful imagery. Extremely hard to follow plot that exposes itself more the less you try to understand it. And to be honest about it, I only understand as much as I think I do from reading the reviews after I finished the movie. There were indeed three separate time periods spanning 1,000 years, but the bubble in space was just the third time period. The man and woman were like Adam and Eve and the tree was the tree of life, which the guy kept nibbling on in the bubble. But then it dies as they get closer to the dying star at the center of the nebula and, well, I kind of lost the plotline there. Which is ok. Because it's still a moving movie, just not one of those where you find out the Butler did it with the candlestick in the study and all loose ends are neatly tied off.
After finishing this one, moved on to a time travel movie called 11. Great little indie movie about a guy who travels back 48 years or so, 8 or 9 times, to the same wedding party. He can only stay 11 minutes at a time (how did they ever come up with the name of the movie?!) but it takes him months to reset his equipment in his own time to return. Which is an interesting concept. Because he falls in love with one of the bridesmaids (who hasn't?), thinking about her in the months and years that he is resetting his equipment in his own time.
It causes him to inject so much seriousness and passion into the 11 minutes that he's able to see her every few months, contrasting with her perspective, which is some guy keeps hitting on her within the space of an hour.
The ending is subtle but brilliant and I won't give it away. God, I'm turning from writer to movie reviewer. So much easier to sit back after a hard day's work with a cold Guinness and enjoy a movie than it is to awaken at 6am, shuffle out for some coffee and stare at a screen full of story that I may or may not be in love with, depending on my mood of the day.
After finishing this one, moved on to a time travel movie called 11. Great little indie movie about a guy who travels back 48 years or so, 8 or 9 times, to the same wedding party. He can only stay 11 minutes at a time (how did they ever come up with the name of the movie?!) but it takes him months to reset his equipment in his own time to return. Which is an interesting concept. Because he falls in love with one of the bridesmaids (who hasn't?), thinking about her in the months and years that he is resetting his equipment in his own time.
It causes him to inject so much seriousness and passion into the 11 minutes that he's able to see her every few months, contrasting with her perspective, which is some guy keeps hitting on her within the space of an hour.
The ending is subtle but brilliant and I won't give it away. God, I'm turning from writer to movie reviewer. So much easier to sit back after a hard day's work with a cold Guinness and enjoy a movie than it is to awaken at 6am, shuffle out for some coffee and stare at a screen full of story that I may or may not be in love with, depending on my mood of the day.
