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I feel like there's some people that aren't really getting this movie

posted 9 years ago by HereComesMadness
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I don't know about audiences in general, but I'm definitely feeling it from some critics. Some of them are put off the by the tone and narrative sense, which isn't hard to follow. It seems like critics now are so used to having a regular 3 act linear structure, that doing an interweaving tale is now a little too challenging for them to keep their interest.

The movie captures the old versions of fairy tales pretty well. They were storytelling whiplash. They could go from lighter to pitch black at moment's notice, that mostly didn't build with a natural, expected path and diverted at a whim. Usually these stories were told down from generation to generation with a different variant on them each time. That's what this movie feels like, and it gets the spirit right.

Not saying that everyone has to be on board with a movie like this. But this is the kind of strange epic we don't get in cinema anymore. It's an adaptation that feels like a fairy tale in it's truest form. Beautiful, offset with tragedy.

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[–] Voice-of-Discernment 9 years ago

Actually I find each of the "tales" to be pretty linear, in the way traditional fairytales can ever be "linear"... They're stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. I don't get why people are having an issue here - they've been watching Game of Thrones and other similar shows where there's a bunch of different plots happening at the same time; so why do they suddenly behave like this is a new and complicated concept?

[–] namrettik 9 years ago

What I really appreciated about this movie was the mixing of the three tales.

What do people/critics want? A full arc three times in a row in two hours? Can you imagine Pulp Fiction in chronological order? It'd be a storytelling disaster, much the same way this would be. People would clamor for three separate movies, then bemoan that they're too short and bitch about them "phoning in" characters from the other movies.

This is three stories told at the same time at the same arc. You've got the beginning, middle, end. Surprisingly (I only say so because I heard the NPR review about this before watching it (I never heard of it before that)), they actually intersect. I wasn't expecting that, simply because of the one thing I heard about this movie. And I love that they all intersect, but they don't really influence each other.

It's grand, it's weird, it's Kafka, it's Tarantino, it's its own thing, and I freaking loved it. The only thing I wished for was a quicker demise of Dorah; I was honestly expecting her to lose her youth...or worse...immediately following her wedding night duties. An additional thing was wondering about Imma and Dorah at the end, but open-ended fairy tales in this nature aren't unheard of.

[–] debster859 8 years ago

I just found it boring they were trying to do a GOT with all these different Story lines but it fell flat for me because non of the story lines or charracters were that interesting

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 8 years ago

I didn't see any critics complaining about the structure of the movie - if anything, critics can be a little TOO jaded and pretentious in their search for the next big thing, and scorn straightforward storytelling. Tale of Tales is a wonderful, good-looking movie, but let's not congratulate ourselves too much on "getting" it - it's three stories told simultaneously. It's not Inception.