Tuesday, September 14, 2010
TWO IN ONE
Today's film was
with Joseph Gordon Leavitt and Lynn Collins.
A couple, uncertain about their future, meet in the middle of a bridge and decide to each run to the other side to figure things out. To meet each other at the opposite ends.
They do meet the other and begin two parallel stories together, one a thriller, another a family problem.
Surreal. Yes. Very movie movie. You couldn't pull this off with a novel. Well you could but not so cinematically. Yuk yuk.
The thing here is the photography and a lot of the dialogue is improvised. The directors take a lot of risk.
Even though the two stories do not meet I expected them to. Even when I read that they didn't. They do have touching points however. Very nicely done.
I liked it. It was great exercise.
The film was in limited release. It didn't get to wider distribution. Too bad.
I really, really like Joseph Gordon=Leavitt. He has taken a lot of risks with his career and many have paid off. In some ways like James Franco. Gordon-Leavitt must be quite satisfied with himself. I hope so. At least one of his fans is quite happy with him.
I will give this a 3 out of Netflix5.
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