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In Reply to: It is masterly told, for good reasons: posted by orejones on April 19, 2004 at 09:24:47:
The way the story is told, the viewer is forced to participate in unweaving it, thus becoming much more involved than what he would if it was told in a lineal way.I totally agree. I just can't shake this feeling like a needless or cynical trick.
Under our usual state of consciousness, things seem to happen under a lineal way, and that´s the way we usually remember them. But life is much more than a state of consciousness, and things don´t happen to us in the orderly way we think: what the authors -writer and director- have done when telling this whole story the way the have chosen to is telling us, and forcing us to accept, that life itself only gains a sense at the very end of it; and those two or three minutes at the end of the film, when an ailing Sean Penn is voicing his naked reflections about the meaning and sense of life -his or any other´s- are crucial to give the whole story its full meaning: 21 grams, that´s what can be seen from outside, no more..., and so much for he who sees it with one foot on the other side!
I'd buy this if the film were entirely from Penn's perspective. It's not. I'm not objecting to its non-linearity per se, I'm just not sure the the film justifies its own choice of style.
I find it personally interesting, though, that I could deem a film worthy of re-viewing when I have such fundamental objections to it.
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Follow Ups
- Re: It is masterly told, for good reasons: - Bulkington 09:51:57 04/19/04 (9)
- "I just can't shake this feeling like a needless or cynical trick." - rhizomatic 10:17:41 04/19/04 (8)
- "And Ulysses couldn've 'just' been about a day in Dublin..." - Bulkington 11:15:00 04/19/04 (7)
- Rendering a tin man a straw man - rhizomatic 12:03:35 04/19/04 (6)
- Re: Rendering a tin man a straw man - Bulkington 13:17:16 04/19/04 (5)
- Well, well, SCREW YOU THEN! - rhizomatic 13:25:35 04/19/04 (4)
- Man, take that shit OUTSIDE - Bulkington 13:31:21 04/19/04 (3)
- Hey, back off the Rhizman...he's only fooling...I think. One never knows about commies. (nt - dennzio 16:26:57 04/19/04 (2)
- Yep. But Bulkington is going to see the film at least once more! - orejones 08:22:54 04/20/04 (1)
- Give me time! - Bulkington 09:32:18 04/21/04 (0)
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