I saw a movie on the weekend called “Third Person” which left me puzzled when I left the theatre. The story, if you can call it, was a mishmash of subplots that didn’t tie in together, the locations jumped around all the time and the characters didn’t seem to have strong motivations.
The question I ask is: how did movie investors finance a film that is so unclear that perhaps they didn’t even understand it? Maybe the screenplay for the initial synopsis was clear but the execution was certainly not. Perhaps they were led to believe that this lack of clarity would be artistically valuable and would be an attraction for theatregoers.
The problem with a movie like this is that it doesn’t have a clear story spine and afterwards makes you wonder what it was all about. Rather give me a straight-forward movielike X-Men “Days of Future Past”, “The Dark Night” or even a classic that’s absolutely clear such as “Chinatown”. No wonder movies like this draw cinema fans and rake up big winnings in the box office. Continue reading “Don’t invest in things you don’t understand”
