Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on April 19, 2004 at 12:05:12

In Reply to: I didn't like it posted by rico on April 19, 2004 at 11:34:59:

The set up for starters was ridiculous. One does not walk into a stranger's house only to find an oppurtunity to exchange lives with a former resident to to an unimpeachable physical likeness but....

The real problem is that the dream is a gross cheat. It is a gross cheat becuase the narative continues in a conventional style. Things are revealed in the dream that are not shown from the perspective of the dreamer and are unknown to her. To me that is simply unexceptable. I will go on any journy of make believe any film maker wishes to take me on but when the basic rules of logic are so trampled on even within the unrealistic convention that is set up by a movie it pisses me off. I love it when a movie out smarts me but I hate it when a movie falls back on a cheat that makes no sense within the context that has been set up. The irectror may have well just walked into picture at the end and said "hey it's just a movie and you knew that." It would have been no less a break in the established reality of the movie.