Lady In The Water
Watched 3 new films the week before last.... yup, by normal standards, that would have totally thrown my spending money account off balance, but thank God, all expenses were paid by my company for the screening of M.Night Shyamalan's "thriller" Lady In The Water. So that's one movie down.
This entry's gonna be about that very disappointing M.Night "thriller".
First of all, I gotta say this movie definitely surprised us... there were no twists at the ending.
Paul Giamatti acts as a caretaker who rescues someone whom he thought was just a young woman in a pool, whom actually is a character from a bedtime story. Now she comes from the blue world, and along with her comes all these creatures who want to kinda kill her, cos she's the queen, and u know, throw the world off balance and stuff.
The part that probably makes up the plot was the process of finding the people who can serve as the Healer, The Guardian, someone who reads signs... and more. But these are revealed to us quite directly, as the characters of the occupants in the block of apartments unveil themselves.
There was no mystery, no puzzle to solve.
In fact, the character "Mr Farber" served almost no purpose, except to entertain.
The ending was plain, cos yeah, they got all the characters in line, and the girl got sent back to her world safely. End of story.
Variations I would have totally loved:
1) The ending would have a screenshot of Paul Giamatti in a wheelchair, in an asylum, and everyone would realise that this whole story was in his mind. And that the girl he wanted to rescue was actually a representation of his old girlfriend whom he couldn't save from some car crash when he was younger. So, he tries to redeem himself by saving her in his dreams, over and over again.
2) The whole story was some mind game that Mr Farber was playing with the residents, like a conspiracy theory, cos he is actually from the Blue World, where the whole bedtime story was based, and he's undercover to keep the balance of both our world and the blue world.
Ah hell.... I'm no big time cinema writer, but I really felt the story should have more imagination.
Oh, M.Night Shyamalan decided to act full time in this film.
For a scary cat like me, nothing in that movie was scary.eh
Funny, yes.
Anyway, here's the trailer:
Mocca.
This entry's gonna be about that very disappointing M.Night "thriller".
First of all, I gotta say this movie definitely surprised us... there were no twists at the ending.
Paul Giamatti acts as a caretaker who rescues someone whom he thought was just a young woman in a pool, whom actually is a character from a bedtime story. Now she comes from the blue world, and along with her comes all these creatures who want to kinda kill her, cos she's the queen, and u know, throw the world off balance and stuff.
The part that probably makes up the plot was the process of finding the people who can serve as the Healer, The Guardian, someone who reads signs... and more. But these are revealed to us quite directly, as the characters of the occupants in the block of apartments unveil themselves.
There was no mystery, no puzzle to solve.
In fact, the character "Mr Farber" served almost no purpose, except to entertain.
The ending was plain, cos yeah, they got all the characters in line, and the girl got sent back to her world safely. End of story.
Variations I would have totally loved:
1) The ending would have a screenshot of Paul Giamatti in a wheelchair, in an asylum, and everyone would realise that this whole story was in his mind. And that the girl he wanted to rescue was actually a representation of his old girlfriend whom he couldn't save from some car crash when he was younger. So, he tries to redeem himself by saving her in his dreams, over and over again.
2) The whole story was some mind game that Mr Farber was playing with the residents, like a conspiracy theory, cos he is actually from the Blue World, where the whole bedtime story was based, and he's undercover to keep the balance of both our world and the blue world.
Ah hell.... I'm no big time cinema writer, but I really felt the story should have more imagination.
Oh, M.Night Shyamalan decided to act full time in this film.
For a scary cat like me, nothing in that movie was scary.eh
Funny, yes.
Anyway, here's the trailer:
Mocca.
posted by Mocca at 6:41 PM
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