In Reply to: Divingbell and the Butterfly posted by delboy on September 29, 2008 at 04:00:44:
The actual true life story is remarkable but this film was very problematic for me. The gimmicky cinematic conventions used were heavy handed, obvious, pretentious, often poorly crafted and sometimes physically nausiating. IMO this was like a student film gone bad.
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- I thought it was a pretentious POS - Analog Scott 15:14:52 09/29/08 (7)
- Here's another opinion... - Harmonia 08:31:39 09/30/08 (0)
- Kind of like a French, "I am Sam." The genre of the seriously ill - tinear 07:46:13 09/30/08 (0)
- RE: I thought it was a pretentious POS - delboy 04:12:13 09/30/08 (4)
- RE: I thought it was a pretentious POS - Analog Scott 18:36:58 09/30/08 (2)
- RE: I thought it was a pretentious POS - merlinus 19:51:16 09/30/08 (1)
- While I would agree with you about his... - Harmonia 21:41:49 09/30/08 (0)
- Agreed, and moreover...far from being "gimicky"... - Harmonia 08:10:13 09/30/08 (0)