Robert Campion
03-04-2008, 09:31 AM
Anyone seen it?
***Semi-Spoilers****
Something I've never detected in Woody before, a sense of wanting to really go off on a caveman bender, leaving old-fashioned human conscience behind . . . Reason, the gut thing, the pursuit of self-preservation, being the opposite of humanity . . .
The key line is when the actress girlfriend mentions that the play she's in is a 'moral story.' So is the movie. Then the ending doesn't seem abrupt. Actually it's inevitable, isn't it? We're all stuck in the same play, writing the stories of our doom. Our best intentions are opposite to the evolutionary drive to smash the neighbor over the head with a brick. Oh Woody dresses it up with the bit about family. Maybe for the mother. And maybe McGregor's character is fooling himself. I think Farrel's character is the more honest. And doesn't he suffer for it?
Really a great film until the 3rd act kinda goes wonky, but I liked the whole thing anyway. The dream motif is a nice touch.
***Semi-Spoilers****
Something I've never detected in Woody before, a sense of wanting to really go off on a caveman bender, leaving old-fashioned human conscience behind . . . Reason, the gut thing, the pursuit of self-preservation, being the opposite of humanity . . .
The key line is when the actress girlfriend mentions that the play she's in is a 'moral story.' So is the movie. Then the ending doesn't seem abrupt. Actually it's inevitable, isn't it? We're all stuck in the same play, writing the stories of our doom. Our best intentions are opposite to the evolutionary drive to smash the neighbor over the head with a brick. Oh Woody dresses it up with the bit about family. Maybe for the mother. And maybe McGregor's character is fooling himself. I think Farrel's character is the more honest. And doesn't he suffer for it?
Really a great film until the 3rd act kinda goes wonky, but I liked the whole thing anyway. The dream motif is a nice touch.