Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on August 19, 2005 at 07:19:56

In Reply to: Compared to USA fromulaic drek it was a refreshing entertainment . . . posted by mr grits on August 18, 2005 at 13:12:38:

I agree that some obsessed persons may wait ten years. I agree that movies do not necessarily need to reflect real life. Nor be logical. Those are not the issues. These are clearly obsessed, dysfuntional people. I have never been the France. But I have been to England, Scotland, Iceland, and have relatives living Ireland, where I have also visited. I can therefore assume that the behavior depicted in the film was not normal for Europeans.

The problem with the film, and the film maker, was that he championed their behavior. These people hurt each other, and more importantly, the good people around them, then, as a reward for their behavior, get a glorious ending to their relationship. The film maker apparently believed that the story rose to the level of Romeo and Juliet, which it most certainly did not.

So what do you have? An entire film based around the premise of a "dare", which is not particularly original. Two characters who are not likeable, and show no growth through the story. The are basically the same as adults as they were when children. A story which makes no sense. An ending which is completely illogical, and is not earned by the dental floss of a story. Though I will agree that the film looks good, and is well filmed.

I can accept a film which has little connection with reality. I watch them all the time. But I at least ask for something logical, a character I can like, or hate that gets their just desserts, so arc of a story. Something. This film had none of that.