Friday, March 02, 2007

Upcoming Movie Reviews.

Little preview of what’s upcoming in the next 10 days or so. Many of you requested Pan’s Labyrinth and Children of Men, and we’re listening. It was just important to get the Oscar noms out of the way first. So, enjoy yourselves picturing me driving all the way out to West L.A., over-paying for parking, and sitting in some art-house theatre just to please you.

Is there anything else you’d like me to attend for you? Homo-erotic art exhibit, perhaps? Hillary fund raiser? Anti-war performance artist? Just let me know.

Certainly one can excuse what’s done to Hanssen’s character under the guise of this being a true story. But it’s not a filmmaker’s job to make a documentary. It is a filmmaker’s job to capture the essense of the story thematically or through character, and create a compelling narrative from it. Turning Hanssen into a stereotype was a near-fatal mistake. And the worst part of it was that I saw it coming early on. I knew that because of his religion, patriotism, and disdain for Hillary Clinton that he would be stripped of all his sympathetic qualities before the movie was over. Not because it served the story, but because it served a world view.