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Okay, have a look at 'Fish Tank' and let me know what you think...but

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Tony D.

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In Reply to: RE: Well, Tony, I agree with you on, "Winter's Bone," but, though I haven't seen posted by tinear on December 11, 2010 at 10:34:43

you must be talking about another film also called 'Fish Tank' if you think this describes it:

"Many films are overwritten, creating scenes with unbelievable, fanciful actions and outcomes to make larger points. The worst films have many of them. On the other hand, in the best films, characters are illuminated in seemingly commonplace situations, there needn't be a crisis every minute.
I'll see "Fish Tank," but it really does seem like the plot's exaggerations may well have doomed it."

Have a look though and do post your thoughts.

J.B.

Follow Ups:

SPOILER: - tinear 14:54:11 12/11/10 (6)
I read the plot is about a younger woman that sleeps with her mother's boyfriend, follows him to his home, pees in his living room, kidnaps the guy's daughter when he discovers he's a lying married guy, and then saves the kid's life.
I don't think I'm greatly exaggerating in my earlier paragraph, considering these facts?
- Okay, then Citizen Kane is about a guy who is love with a snow sled. - Tony D. 16:34:18 12/11/10 (5)
  If I considered myself a bit of a film buff but judged movies by reading the plot before seeing them then I would be rightly laughed out of any conversations about those movies.
  
  I thought you were a lot smarter than this.
  
  J.B.
  - Haha. I like you a lot better since you started taking your medication NT - Jazz Inmate 00:58:09 12/13/10 (1)
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    We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
    - I feel kind of bad about it actually, with Tin it's like arguing with or trying to reason with a 10 year old.* - Tony D. 11:28:11 12/14/10 (0)
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  - Wow. Pretty ridiculous comparison, Tony. Extraordinarily so. - tinear 18:13:54 12/11/10 (2)
    SPOILER.
    Again, any one or two of those occurrences in "Fish Tank," would strain credulity. All of them boggles. The part about taking the kid to the river really is contrived, especially considering the life-saving thing. Like I said, I'll see it because of its awards, but I'll be surprised if it can overcome such over-theatrical writing.
    As far as the superb Kane, though it pains me to have to mention it in the same post, it is about childhood trauma and its impact on a life (and also about a lot more....). Hardly melodramatic or contrived. It would be hard to find a child so separated from loved one(s) that wasn't traumatized.
    Anyhow, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
    - Zing, the whole point (and truth) of my post whips over your head...so I give up. * - Tony D. 11:10:30 12/14/10 (1)
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      - I explained that childhood trauma indeed can have permanent impact: - tinear 12:07:56 12/14/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Zing, the whole point (and truth) of my post whips over your head...so I give up. * posted by Tony D. on December 14, 2010 at 11:10:30
        
        you just cannot admit your "reasoning" was ridiculous. Citizen Kane, in case you didn't know it, was loosely based on a true story, that of William Hearst.
        "Fish Tank?"
        Oh, c'mon. You think that's realism?

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