Can I have this movie removed from my memory please?
This movie had great potential, the premise was intriguing and the possibilities endless. So how could the makers of this... this celluloid sedative possibly have got it so wrong?
For me the entire movie's downfall was summed up in one single scene. When Alan played a montage of memory cuts to Delila depicting a mans life played backwards in front of a bathroom mirror, the scene was clearly supposed to be awe inspiring. The music played behind the footage and the reactions shown by the characters were supposed to convey the sensitivity and depth of Alans inner artist, and lead the viewer towards reflections upon the nature of life itself, but for me the scene did nothing more than prove the lack of communication between the movie-makers and their audience. The scene left me disappointed, uninspired and weary. At that moment I knew that the remainder of the film would hold nothing more for me, but I remained watching to the closing titles, hoping to be proved wrong.
I wasn't.
The scripts ego was writing cheques that the director and crew couldn't cash. A good idea just isn't enough, there needs to be more, there needs to be substance, heart and involvement - things sorely lacking from this work.
The tragedy is, that this movie has completely destroyed the future potential of a very good idea. In the hands of an expert, the movie's premise could have been worked into a film worthy enough to be considered a classic, but now that potential has been battered to death with apathy.
The real shame here is not what this movie was, but what this movie could have been.
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