Well, in order to pick up on that, you'd probably have to be the type of person who watches particular movies multiple times like you stated in your OP.
I do the same thing with the amount of time in between viewings is based on many different factors:
- How much I liked the movie
- Whether it was the type of movie that had a type of atmosphere that didn't require too much specific attention or thinking and therefore I could relax into
- Whether it was a specific type of movie that I particularly find more
enjoyable, in a sense, based on the above factors, like me being able to relax into the atmosphere of the movie.
For some reasons, I find movies where small groups of people are "cut off" from outside society in a specific place and face some kind of outside threat. I've wondered what the best way to describe that type of movie and what it was that attracted to me them and the word I sort of came up with was "claustrophile." I prefer the coziness, the dynamics of people having to pull together and rely on each other against a threat.
However, understanding what you are saying, I have seen this movie multiple times and I don't remember Mike being TOO out of line with Hatch but I agree that the stress Mike seemed to be under more of than anyone else simply brought about the fact that Mike seemed to more aware of the situation they were dealing with (if possibly just...) and was a response to the frustration that only he seemed to realize there was far more to than what met the idea in those situations.
I also like movies that I refer to has having somewhat of a claustrophile atmosphere and for some reason I enjoy watching those movies over more often has to do with those situations are something I enjoy and after having seen it plenty of times, I don't have to think about it too much.
For example some movies that meet this criteria (in no specific order) are movies like:
- Storm of the Century
- Pontypool
- The Mist
- Identity
- Langoliers
- Halloween 4
- Sphere
- Descent
- Crimson Tide
- Devil
- Pandorum
- Solaris
- Sunshine
- Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers 2, and The Shining(though the specific victims really were only 2 people in both of these movies).
Ultimately though, whether such a movie meets the standards in creating a atmosphere to make such movie that has an atmosphere though is different based on the actual threat, the very small number of people (two adults only), the time it takes them to become aware of it. If the atmosphere isn't executed properly or not done well, then those movies and one movie that has that element but is limited about the number of people facing the issue, is "The Shining." Most likely though has to do with that atmosphere of being completely cut off from society and the ability of outer probably one of the bigger affects on
But back to Mike & Hatch, I really only believe it was Mike's stress over the situation and be surrounded by a bunch of ...less intelligent people, and as we saw in the movie, the type of people who are afraid to stand up for themselves or what they believe in and finally, the type of people (which Mike I think knew about it on a level) that lived on that island, only, Linoge took his opportunity to point out to Mike more specificaly, but as well as the other citizens on the island, and really shown the dark light on what type of people they really were. I also think it highlighted something in particular people and point out the phoniness and hypocrisy of many of communities like this in the nation, though most of those types are in the south. In fact, that is a part of the irony because this town is in Maine...but it seems most every Stephen King movies take place there.
Just my thoughts.
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