the narration

I loved most of this movie. But the narration!!!! Ugh!!!!

1, It shatters the tone set by the lack of dialogue elsehwere.

2, More significantly, its only real function is to help the audience understand what's happening. ("This is her FATHER" or "This is IN HER MIND"). Which in turn...

3, Is condescending to the audience (you are too dumb to figure this out yourself, aren't you?).

4, Does not display a lot of confidence in its own ability to communicate ideas implicitly.

And 5, Removes a lot of potential for interpretation / discussion, since it outright tells you what's happening in what could have been an ambiguous scene.

My only guess is that it was submitted without the narration, but some test screeners were confused, and the studio made them add it in or something. (Kind of like what happened with the intro of Dark City.)

Ugh!!!!! Huge mar on an otherwise great film.


Oh yes it's Laaarry Holmes/and the feeelin's right/Oh yes it's Laaarry Holmes/what a fight