(Spoilers ahead. Read at your peril.)
You ask what genre? THIS => "You spend your hours watching somebody's effing hallucinations/dreams."
Problem is, you find out that it's a hallucination/dream ONLY towards the end of the movie. F this!
I'm not sure who started this crap, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan? But I'm sure I HATE it.
5/10 because it keeps you seated.
It became a huge thing in the late 90's and I believe Fight Club started it, so David Fincher.
Done to death in movies like Secret Window, High Tension, Hide and Seek, The Number 23, etc. Identity came out before every sinks movie started doing it so it wasn't a horrible trope back then. Now it gets lost in the shuffle.
total recall with arnie is the first I remember..
shareIt's a great film. Everything that was happening was happening in the Malcolm's head but still happening nonetheless. Each character represented an actual personality in the man's psyche, and what went down was very real to every personality portrayed (and Malcolm.)
I don't understand how this can take any enjoyment out of it for you. If you think about it, ANY movie you watch isn't actually happening. It's a movie. So what is the difference? Here you're getting a movie within a movie and a very psychological thriller.
I actually thought they revealed what was really going on far too early.
Spoiled it a little.
I liked that. Having one of the personalities escape the fantasy and visit reality, then return and try to ‘help’ was genius. You were really onboard with Cusack and felt for him even when you knew he was just a figment of Malcolm’s imagination.
Basically a perfect film, the only thing that pulled me out a bit was the absurd montage of the kid massacring everyone 🤦🏻♂️
Once you reveal it's all in the guy's head, everything becomes meaningless. You could kill everyone and it simply doesn't matter. All the tension is gone.
shareWell not really because he’s a multiple murderer and if the ‘wrong’ personality wins out then he’ll kill again - which is exactly what happens when he strangles his psychiatrist.
shareWho gives a fuck about the murderer? No-one.
shareI do, plus I care about Alfred Molina’s psychiatrist, and am gutted when he strangles him - a true horror ending.
shareUh...the tension that you were literally just asking about.
He killed the psychiatrist, in real life.
Isn't that what you wanted?
No, my point is: We haven't spent any time with those characters so their actions are meaningless.
If you watch a movie about three people, then, five minutes form the end, a new character is introduced and killed... do you care about them? Of course not. They're people you haven't spent the movie being invested in.
I thought we saw the psychologist at the beginning of the movie. It stages the film. At any rate, yes, you know more about John Cusack, but not sure why you don't care about his fate either. He's a delusion, but he's still real. Tough sell I guess.
shareIt's pretty damn batshit crazy. But I still liked it.
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