Friday, September 28, 2012
TRIANGLE
Today's NYTimes Critics' Pick film was Zack Parker's
Three people involved in a tight, densely packed exercise in film drama.
A scalene triangle is the one in which all sides are of different length.
Here, all viewpoints are different. It is not Rashomon where one story is wrong or any of that. It is the same story first told backward, then non-linearly and then forward. Each of these three sections has the viewpoint of one of the characters.
I was sure that I understood what was going on and then, and then and then. Well. No.
The acting is superb here. Everything is the same. They each see the same thing. Some see more some see less but there is no trick to it.
Very good. Excellent.
Margo Martindale is a force of nature.
This is a 4 out of Netflix5.
Wow.
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