I started wondering this while watching it, knowing nothing about it. Why is this a movie? As in, a piece of film as opposed to a stage play. The director doesn't use the medium as part of the storytelling, and characters walk on and off set as the plot requires them. I looked it up later and lo and behold, it's based on a play. It doesn't really feel like a movie.
shareTrue. Also at the part where that boy discovers the bible with the markings, we never see him leaving. I fully expected him to come out of the hallway later in the movie, but next time we see him, he enters through the door again.
shareYa we do - when the Asian friend comes over he walks by her out the door, saying nothing, but she says "You again?"
shareWhy did the director not take advantage of the options afforded by movie production over a stage setting , and put in giant robots firing frickin lasers ?
yeah good question.
Is that what movies are to you?
shareQuite the opposite.
I was just a speculating what you thought was missing, given your OP
Instead of asking me?
shareI'm sorry , I was being a little facetious and having a sarcastic guess , sort of to make the point that in my opinion movies dont need to do anything that you couldn't do on a stage.
Often they do obviously because the scope of the story demands it , usually they do in fact.
but "The man from Earth" for example is a great instance of a film that could easily be done on stage , its just a few people having a chat in a room .
So what would you have added to this movie given that you're free of the constraints of a stage setting?
Thanks for the apology.
I'd have liked to see more of the language of cinema in the movie, starting with not constraining it to one setting, perhaps getting a change of scenery and pace via flashbacks, and something other than exposition from the characters to actually be shown the past situations they're referring to.
It'd be a different movie at that point, since part of the purpose is to have it take place in just one location, but even other movies that do that (Hateful Eight comes to mind) manage to set part of the movie in other locations, and vary it up so it's not just one or two rooms.