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In Reply to: Good points; ... posted by Audiophilander on June 26, 2002 at 21:07:46:

Logical holes may make a story less entertaining to watch, but adding a serious message doesn't mean that the movie should be held to a more rigorous standard than a popcorn film. That is, you wouldn't dissect the Minority Report storyboard in a serious discussion about whether it's good public policy to prevent crime before it happens.
I think that for a film like Minority Report, the message is serious, but the story is a fairy tale through which we draw that message. Popular adult entertainment is still fairy tales. It's just a launching pad for our thinking about the issues, and the storyteller can bend the rules to get to that goal. Else you'd just go to an academic lecture instead.
Recently A Beautiful Mind has been criticized for its historical inaccuracies, but learning the changes and omissions does not make it a lesser film.
On Law and Order the defendant takes the witness stand in every episode. This is apparently very, very rare in real-life trials. Does knowing this make the show worse for you the next time you watch? Yet that unrealistic plot point (the "gunshot" as you call it) is required to complete the confrontation in the story, to complete the moral point of the story.
What differentiates a good storyteller from a bad one may be the way they can slip these things by you in telling the fairy tale. A film like Dancer in the Dark, for example, bends the rules of logic as far as possible without becoming comedy, yet the director manages to make you feel strongly for the characters in the process.

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Topic - suspending logic, or why so picky? - TA 17:45:56 06/26/02 (5)

Ours is not to reason why, ours is just to buy and buy ? - john dem 18:50:22 06/26/02 (4)

Good points; ... - Audiophilander 21:07:46 06/26/02 (3)

Some responses ... - TA 08:30:44 06/27/02 (2)

Your points are well taken, but... - Audiophilander 09:50:14 06/27/02 (1)

Interesting review of "A Beautiful Mind" at.... - AudioHead 07:31:30 07/03/02 (0)

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Some responses ... - TA 08:30:44 06/27/02 (2)

Your points are well taken, but... - Audiophilander 09:50:14 06/27/02 (1)

Interesting review of "A Beautiful Mind" at.... - AudioHead 07:31:30 07/03/02 (0)

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