tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17813568.post1912963092421280402..comments2023-10-14T07:55:01.450-04:00Comments on filmscreed: My Week of Movie WatchingJeff Duncansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10213002549189881704noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17813568.post-22029137828601562222011-12-11T11:31:07.445-05:002011-12-11T11:31:07.445-05:00Drew - These are the kind of comments that I love ...Drew - These are the kind of comments that I love getting - Someone who causes me to rethink what I first thought about a movie.<br />You're right about Mosely's general ineptitude. in thinking back, that's why the relationship with his wife is given the time it is. This guys is really adrift in his life.<br />You also make a good point about his point-of-view and the convoluted plot. I think we are programmed to expect clean resolutions, and plots that are y constructed and laid out for us. This one definately isn't that way - It reminded me a bit of Out of the Past in that regard.<br />Anyways, thanks very much for the comments. (I have to watch it again now, y'know) :)Jeff Duncansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10213002549189881704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17813568.post-15445560494241315902011-12-08T20:54:04.383-05:002011-12-08T20:54:04.383-05:00Jeff, I'm preparing a list for the end of the ...Jeff, I'm preparing a list for the end of the month on the best films I watched this year for the first time, and <i>Night Moves</i> is going to be awfully high, I was blown away by it. I think the open quality of the plot and the vagueness of the character connections are what make it so great; it's a movie that's firmly committed not to untangling this convoluted mystery, but rather to aligning itself with the man stuck in the middle of it all. Hackman is in every single scene and everything occurs completely through his viewpoint, and because he's all but incompetent (clues and opportunities for him to put the pieces together constantly fly over his head), we are stuck in the same clueless position he is by the end. The key scene seems to be the one with Hackman telling the story of the chessplayer who loses the championship - it completely foreshadows his own situation after climax. He wasn't quite smart enough to see one move ahead, and so he never saw it coming, and it's going to haunt him for the rest of his life.<br /><br />I need to catch up with the Lester at some point, even his more minor work is never uninteresting. He's a great director.Drew McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054307044280470117noreply@blogger.com