Broken Flowers Film Review
September 26th 2006 01:28
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In Search Of A Climax
This was taken from my side of an online correspondence:
Which brings me to Broken Flowers, which I had very mixed feelings about - an intimate portrait of a man determined to elude intimacy.
Australian audiences hum, ohh and ahh a little more than the American - there's less of a self-conscious, politically-correct pacing to people's personal responses, and it's more okay to go with your visceral reaction than it is in the States (talk about a blessing and a curse)... so over the course of the film I became intrigued by the way the audience members were managing their responses on the film's multiple representations of dysfunctionality. Personally by the time I left the theatre I was too overloaded by both the spoken and unspoken messages in the film to be emotionally invested in its outcome, which explains my heightened focus on the film's techniques (which were truly a pleasure to watch - one my my favourite shots was when Don's shiny silver car slid to a halt, perfectly positioned in the left-hand corner to hug the edges of the frame, a lone presence of a bystander suggested by the camera's side-walk perspective).
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