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Self-indulgent Crap
Twentynine Palms is an example of a filmmaker trying to defy narrative convention without first asking himself: Why do most films follow narrative conventions?
The answer, of course, is because film viewers want to see characters they can feel something for (good or bad) doing something important (at least subjectively) and coming to a win, lose, or draw.
Nobody -- and I mean NOBODY -- wants to see people who don't seem real and therefore cannot inspire any emotions in the viewer doing nothing for a long time and then ... well, I won't spoil it. ("Spoil" being sort of a joke. How can spoil a cannister of rotten eggs and sour grapes?)
The movie is awful. Flat out terrible. I can't believe it was funded and made. Apparently, the director believes the only thing that can capture an audience's attention is hillbilly gang rape, a la Deliverance.
The difference is Deliverance has a point and has actual characters, and therefore the violence is shocking (or so it seemed at the time of the film's release). I laughed when the hillbilly's did their thing in Twentynine Palms. It was hilarious. Not worth sittig through two hours of absolute garbage for, but still hilarious.
Bravo.
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Comment index:29 Palms from daniel stefik, Mar 20, 2004
» Re: Self-indulgent Crap « from Scott, Nov 5, 2010
29 Palms from daniel stefik, Mar 20, 2004
» Re: Self-indulgent Crap « from Scott, Nov 5, 2010
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