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The Verdict (1982)
This is gorgeous and my litigation strategy is blossoming! Thanks, Torgo.
This is gorgeous and my litigation strategy is blossoming! Thanks, Torgo.
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…And since the idea is that the people in the movie are filming the movie, it starts to stretch the imagination sometimes that someone would still be filming.
To this end, REC (the Spanish version) was quite convincing. But generally speaking, it’s a balancing act, much like epistolary novels. Some people say it’s up to you to suspend disbelief and that’s fair enough, but I’m quite draconian about it. It’s as if the carefully planted little found footage/epistolary sections work much better, as with the Gone Girl diary. Then, of course, there are brilliant meta-found-footage films, like Man Bites Dog, though I admit to being partial to most things meta.
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That is probably what’s at the heart of my ambivalence about the genre. It works when it’s established that it’s the characters’ job or second nature to film, so I didn’t need to always come back to, Have they got nothing better to do?/Like she’d be thinking of that now!
To this end, REC (the Spanish version) was quite convincing. But generally speaking, it’s a balancing act, much like epistolary novels. Some people say it’s up to you to suspend disbelief and that’s fair enough, but I’m quite draconian about it. It’s as if the carefully planted little found footage/epistolary sections work much better, as with the Gone Girl diary. Then, of course, there are brilliant meta-found-footage films, like Man Bites Dog, though I admit to being partial to most things meta.
To this end, REC (the Spanish version) was quite convincing. But generally speaking, it’s a balancing act, much like epistolary novels. Some people say it’s up to you to suspend disbelief and that’s fair enough, but I’m quite draconian about it. It’s as if the carefully planted little found footage/epistolary sections work much better, as with the Gone Girl diary. Then, of course, there are brilliant meta-found-footage films, like Man Bites Dog, though I admit to being partial to most things meta.
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So somehow, after all the talking, I went for this first.
Not a film, but…
Well, this is gorgeous. I think my aversion to period pieces came from all those endless Renaissance-esque courtly love shows where everyone gets married. But this is fantastic.
Not a film, but…
Well, this is gorgeous. I think my aversion to period pieces came from all those endless Renaissance-esque courtly love shows where everyone gets married. But this is fantastic.
Last edited by AgrippinaX; 06-26-21 at 09:36 AM.
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So somehow, after all the talking, I went for this first.
Not a film, but…
Well, this is gorgeous. I think my aversion to period pieces came from all those endless Renaissance-esque courtly love shows where everyone gets married. But this is fantastic.
Not a film, but…
Well, this is gorgeous. I think my aversion to period pieces came from all those endless Renaissance-esque courtly love shows where everyone gets married. But this is fantastic.
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dont know what the point of this is yet quirky gallows humor i sappose im getting a lynch vibe denis hopper is in it too dont know if its pulling it off.
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Do you know if it comes with English subtitles?
I’m still getting used to that because it’s the actors themselves talking, so everyone has an accent. I’ve already watched Fauda like this a few months ago, it’s a bit distracting at first, but you get used to it pretty quickly.
Last edited by AgrippinaX; 06-27-21 at 11:51 AM.
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dont know what the point of this is yet quirky gallows humor i sappose im getting a lynch vibe denis hopper is in it too dont know if its pulling it off.
What did you think in the end?
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