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I loved The Wild Child, why didn't I like this?

posted 15 years ago by mail-2775
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I've only seen those two, and just this year, and Day For Night seemed unremarkable in almost every way. I thought the subject was an incredible bore, and each of the characters were even less interesting than the plot itself. When the guy died, I didn't care, why not all of them?

I was watching an 80s home VHS release (badly dubbed) in English, and that might have zapped a little life out of it.

Can some real Truffaut fans tell me what the main attraction to this movie is?

Is it something ironic or some subtext I missed out on entirely?

There was some good dialog with some heavy statements about life, but that was 1% of the film, the rest was a tedious bore. The music was crap and the cinematography like a low-end documentary (which I think was the point).

This kind of reminds me of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a show about a show, and the whole point of which was to say that TV is so terrible now and this is so much better, when the truth is that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was pathetic and the show-within-the-show, if made, would have been the least funny show of all time. The exact same premises were used on The Larry Sanders Show and 30 Rock, both of which were far, far better than Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

I loved The Wild Child, why didn't I like this?

Thank you.

[–] Callahan09 9 years ago

I thought it was a great movie. It has interesting characters, and some really true philosophical type lines. Very nice script. Most importantly and noteworthy, it has absolutely *AMAZING* acting performances. I would say that you needed to see it in its original language, I have never seen the dub, but I imagine it probably ruins most of the best qualities of the movie. If you can't appreciate the performance and the humanity of the characters, then you can't appreciate the movie, and when you're getting a dub instead of the actual actors' performances, that's going to ruin a movie like this.