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Post by dazed on Jun 5, 2018 13:58:07 GMT
Just watched this for the first time last night and wow. One of the most fascinating movies I’ve ever watched. I’ll have to give it a couple of more viewings before I can get a complete opinion on this (watching this high seems like a must), but I loved it. I fuck with butterfly effect type stuff and movies that delve into the issue of how choices lead to different outcomes.
What’d you all think of it?
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 5, 2018 16:41:04 GMT
I like the concept of it much more than I like the experience of actually viewing it. It's neat to have a film function like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but I found most of the routes the movie went fairly banal. I liked it best when it played with a sweeping, melodramatic tone (the plotlines with Anna most notably) that I thought fit really well with the ambition of the film: an epic story being told in a classically epic way. The weird little abstract portions where everything was argyle felt unnecessary both narratively and thematically, but it was at least visually interesting and didn't completely undo the thesis of the movie like the ending did. If your movie's all about how all choices are equally significant and all lives were worth living despite their unique struggles and heartbreaks, then the ending about how the guy ultimately chooses his own most perfect life is a total cop-out. In terms of movies about the significance of individual moments in time and their impact far into the future, I vastly prefer Cloud Atlas. That film doesn't deal with the same kind of "oh, let's see what would've happened if they did this instead," electing for more of a straight-forward view into the ripple effect of choices through generations, but it maintains that sweeping sense of grandeur and emotionality I find more resonant.
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Post by no on Jun 11, 2018 23:57:55 GMT
I liked it when I saw it, but it seems sort of terrible in retrospect.
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