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As such it has a stronger narrative than the late Dracula films where the screen plays were not based on any novels.
The storyline is made up of two subtly intertwining narrative layers that make the movie as a whole hard to grasp at the first look, but thoroughly convincing as an independent character study at last.
Very complex material in terms of plot and narrative style, very gloomy and depressing in terms of character portrayal and very distinct in terms of pace and cinematography.
I liked the idea, and am not biased toward poor cinematics, poor dialog, and poor acting if the plot or narrative of a story is really original and fresh.
The film starts off very poorly with a narrative spoken in a robotic voice, indicating that Screamers will be no more than Z-grade garbage.
Without any ability to act or communicate a story visually, the writers/directors/actors resort to an almost constant narrative voice-over.
However, in defense of David Lynch, for one who has followed a number of his films Inland Empire holds a coherent and linear narrative, and one that most novice Lynch viewers can follow with a few pointers.
As with many of Lynch's films, much of the narrative is played out in the main character's subconscious or dreamscape.
The narrative is practically non-existent (and needlessly overlong and confusing).
There are narrative and cinematographic elements present here that appear in his later works in much more refined form.
This a brilliant narrative film, which grips you from the beginning.
Parts of it are told in narrative style which lends a historic credibility to it, but the main focus on the movie is the hardships that our service personnel face when placed in tough situations.
Writer/director Oscar Williams, who previously penned the lowdown funky blaxploitation winners "Black Belt Jones" and "Truck Turner," really fumbles the ball with this disappointingly mild and plodding PG-rated clunker: the sluggish pace, meandering narrative, and especially lots of extremely dumb and forced attempts at painfully unfunny and witless humor doom this baby to outright mediocrity.
Can a creative team overcome the obvious technical and narrative difficulties inherent in the prospect of filming the Hemingway novella 'The Old Man and the Sea?' Well... no!
The narrative is an allegorical sermon so thuddingly unsubtle that it's impossible to view it at anything but the symbolic level.
That is the feeling of this movie a construction that tries to pile in as many bizarre narrative threads as possible, lsd, tornados and the FBI.
Four years were necessary by this film's creative team to raise funding adequate for screening the work, with its setting in Montreal, and its essence as a narrative wayward albeit its production characteristics may well offset its storyline weaknesses for some who will view it by video tape.
Although difficulty for viewers to ken a meandering narrative will be a bit of an impediment, the film is not dull.
Fannie Hurst's tear jerking 1933 novel about the sacrifices mothers make for their daughters spawned two popular movies separated by a quarter century of glacially-changing social attitudes - a highly regarded 1934 version that remains faithful to the book's narrative and an elaborate 1959 remake which changes certain plot details to service German-born filmmaker Douglas Sirk's heavily Baroque style of film-making.
The narrative proceeds to give a standard history of this type is formed, beginning with him getting into petty crime as a kid, and then following him as he proceeds up the ranks of the underworld.
Along with constant co-writer and co-star Eugene Levy, Guest picks a target ripe with possibilities in this 2006 comedy, the Oscar-baiting season prior to the nominations, and surprisingly foregoes the direct interview format in favor of a more traditional narrative.
Lynch is on familiar ground here, echoing what he began on "Lost Highway" and added to with "Mulholland Drive": the interchangeable/mirror-identity trick, in-narrative self-references, the Mobius-strip construction of narrative loops, a re-imagining of time itself (the film presents itself as unfolding memory).
The narrative keeps changing POV for no good reason.
The film lacks suspense or chills, and an over reliance on slow motion, point of view shots, and narrative voice-over results in a technically inept final product.
However, it is possible for a film to capture the message and tone of a novel by keeping true to its narrative.
Second, two narrative lines run throughout the production, and there's never any confusion about who is speaking.
In the end, the narrative approach works well and does not undermine the overall story or make it seem ridiculous despite the fact that the story does have a predictable element to it.
A well put together soundtrack enhances the narrative.
I was always taught that any narrative, be it a movie, book, play, even a piece of music, has to have a beginning, a middle and an end - this dreadful excuse for a movie had a beginning...and then it waffled for the next hour or so until the woman we sort of guessed was the heroine, ran off into the night.
However, Schwentke and Rubin might have leveraged sharper emotional arcs at particular narrative points.
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