Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (A) on April 19, 2004 at 19:11:19

In Reply to: 21 Grams posted by Bulkington on April 19, 2004 at 07:29:02:

The film is plenty deep. The editing is a distraction because it attempts to add weight to the material and because it doesn't really work makes it seem less than what it really is.

The film is not really about 21 gram mythos...it is about the relationship of life's interconnectedness. Penn is saved and has a need to know the meaning of life - why he and not another(the husband and child) is spared from the reaper. The notion of God and the promise of religion from the Del Torro sequences. The strength of the acting and that story is strong enough without the editing ploys.

And really if it's not considered art because the director does not have the answer to the meaning of life or the value of religion - then what is it? I think the answer, at least in the director's mind, IS provided. God is a figmant of the imagination a false prophet. SOmething bad happens and you fluke out and live where you should have dies you believe in God. Something bad happens and you dump him like a hot potato.