Should I completely overlook the extremely poor, practically amateurish realization of this project . . . as the filmmaker apparently chose to . . . I am still left with a greater and more troubling barrier: simultaneously weak and undisciplined direction.
Whatever subtlety or finesse of dramatic tension might have existed in the script, it didn't survive the transition to screen once this team hit the location with mini-dv cams and inspiration from Cassavetes in tow.
Perhaps it is my nature to view the glass as half empty, but the impact this film could have had is betrayed by a very poor respect for cinematic structure and timing. It plays more like a documentary . . . the audience remains strictly in the third person, voyeurs at best . . . opposed to properly executed narrative cinema which actually works to draw the audience into the room, into the story.
The disregard for the craft here so degrades the cinema's ability to transport the audience that the voyeuristic result is almost pornographic. No allegory or underlying themes to entice the audience's imaginations. Just cheap, ugly, and in your face.
On top of everything else must be the most absolutely wretched soundtrack . . . dreadful, droning music that does nothing to enhance the emotional arc of the story.
Whatever subtlety or finesse of dramatic tension might have existed in the script, it didn't survive the transition to screen once this team hit the location with mini-dv cams and inspiration from Cassavetes in tow.
Perhaps it is my nature to view the glass as half empty, but the impact this film could have had is betrayed by a very poor respect for cinematic structure and timing. It plays more like a documentary . . . the audience remains strictly in the third person, voyeurs at best . . . opposed to properly executed narrative cinema which actually works to draw the audience into the room, into the story.
The disregard for the craft here so degrades the cinema's ability to transport the audience that the voyeuristic result is almost pornographic. No allegory or underlying themes to entice the audience's imaginations. Just cheap, ugly, and in your face.
On top of everything else must be the most absolutely wretched soundtrack . . . dreadful, droning music that does nothing to enhance the emotional arc of the story.
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