Watching Snow Angel is such a downer, it's a sad film that can left you feel pretty devastated. But watching sad film is not necessary going to be a bad experience. Look what happened to last year's There Will be Blood and No Country for Old Man, they achieved greatness in each of their own way. But can Snow Angel follow the same footstep?
I think I get the point what the director; David Gordon Green was trying to make. He wants to show us a stage in human's relationship. At first, we saw young couple meet and their love began to blossom. Next, we saw married couple on the verge of braking up. Next, a different couple was in a middle of reconciliation. And finally we saw a two people at the dead end, and one of them decided to do some unexpected thing as a last resort. In this film, path of four couples kept crossing each other (but not necessary interacting), and we are one who's going to be an observer.
But getting the point not necessary means that I feel appreciated by it, because most of these characters seem to be poorly developed. There are 8 or more characters that DGG wants us to pay attention for. He tried to achieve what Robert Altman did in his entire career. But since he is not (yet) the man himself, it's might be a little bit over his head for now. And what we have here is a complete main story of Annie and Glenn (Kate & Sam), and three other side stories that will make people satisfied only an outcome. It might be OK if this was intended for a story of two human being, but since he obviously aimed for a bigger proportion, it's real shame that he didn't do them justice.
Perhaps this is not exactly David Gordon Green's territory. George Washington, his break out directorial effort (which I have yet to see), tell a story of group of children in small town. All the Real Girls is an unconventional love story of young couple. It seems he is an expert in exploring what's going on in his generation's mind. But with Snow Angel, it looks like he tried to explore adult's mind for the first time. And I think the story of Michael Angarano and Olivia Thirlby is very cute and comfortable (and belong to his touch), but it really need some turning point, since there's nothing to be found, it did nothing significant to the main story at all.
After she went out killing a bunch of vampires and werewolves, it's always nice to see Kate did some small film. It maybe not the greatest acting I've ever seen, but it's competent enough to make me feel bad for her (in the mean time, I kind of feel that she deserves it). Especially the scene when she received the most horrify news, I was expected to see she does all "Oscar Moment" (which require a lot of screaming and moaning), but instead she just went out to be alone and sobbed. That's surprised me and makes me admire her choice at the same time.
For the answer of that first paragraph; I would say yes and no. Even though this is a well-perceived character-driven drama, but lack of focus in storytelling and unsatisfied closure left me feel pretty cold. Be that as it may, although that erupt ending made a lot of people scratching their head (including me), but it finally made me realize what the meaning of it. It means nothing. Something horrible happened, but people who affected by it didn't have to stop doing what they usually do, life must goes on. Suddenly, it made me feel privilege to see what's going on in their daily life.
I think I get the point what the director; David Gordon Green was trying to make. He wants to show us a stage in human's relationship. At first, we saw young couple meet and their love began to blossom. Next, we saw married couple on the verge of braking up. Next, a different couple was in a middle of reconciliation. And finally we saw a two people at the dead end, and one of them decided to do some unexpected thing as a last resort. In this film, path of four couples kept crossing each other (but not necessary interacting), and we are one who's going to be an observer.
But getting the point not necessary means that I feel appreciated by it, because most of these characters seem to be poorly developed. There are 8 or more characters that DGG wants us to pay attention for. He tried to achieve what Robert Altman did in his entire career. But since he is not (yet) the man himself, it's might be a little bit over his head for now. And what we have here is a complete main story of Annie and Glenn (Kate & Sam), and three other side stories that will make people satisfied only an outcome. It might be OK if this was intended for a story of two human being, but since he obviously aimed for a bigger proportion, it's real shame that he didn't do them justice.
Perhaps this is not exactly David Gordon Green's territory. George Washington, his break out directorial effort (which I have yet to see), tell a story of group of children in small town. All the Real Girls is an unconventional love story of young couple. It seems he is an expert in exploring what's going on in his generation's mind. But with Snow Angel, it looks like he tried to explore adult's mind for the first time. And I think the story of Michael Angarano and Olivia Thirlby is very cute and comfortable (and belong to his touch), but it really need some turning point, since there's nothing to be found, it did nothing significant to the main story at all.
After she went out killing a bunch of vampires and werewolves, it's always nice to see Kate did some small film. It maybe not the greatest acting I've ever seen, but it's competent enough to make me feel bad for her (in the mean time, I kind of feel that she deserves it). Especially the scene when she received the most horrify news, I was expected to see she does all "Oscar Moment" (which require a lot of screaming and moaning), but instead she just went out to be alone and sobbed. That's surprised me and makes me admire her choice at the same time.
For the answer of that first paragraph; I would say yes and no. Even though this is a well-perceived character-driven drama, but lack of focus in storytelling and unsatisfied closure left me feel pretty cold. Be that as it may, although that erupt ending made a lot of people scratching their head (including me), but it finally made me realize what the meaning of it. It means nothing. Something horrible happened, but people who affected by it didn't have to stop doing what they usually do, life must goes on. Suddenly, it made me feel privilege to see what's going on in their daily life.