Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by afilado (A) on February 16, 2009 at 10:26:29

In Reply to: RE: SPOILER ALERT ALERT ALERT posted by tinear on February 16, 2009 at 09:08:29

I appreciate your points.

For me, a big attraction to the "story" was the near misses or the unresolved coincidences (if that's an apt word). This element, drawn to our attention in the span of a film, poetically replicates, I'm sure, all the near misses in relationship which pass unnoticed to our eyes everyday. Near misses which would propel us in an entirely different direction were they to become known. Into a different set of stories.

I loved the control of this story by the director. It was filled with a deliberate, quiet uncertainty from start to finish. There were no great explosions of surprise - to it's credit - rather an unfolding of authentic, connected events in a contained universe. With the admission that it could be penetrated - or not - by adjacent worlds of related but unknown experience.

Life is not so neat. Every moment is pregnant with possibilities standing in potential to the happenings and the non-happenings which are seen or unseen. The fact of our missing something is as important as our catching it. We just may not be aware of it.

It's not a perfect movie but it's a damn good one. I will watch this director.

There's another of his, by the way, that I saw a year or so ago. Head On. A bit more farfetched in scope- a love story - but I remember enjoying it.