I have no idea what this movie was about. It's some strange overlapping time movie. As if the main character is placed in the same scene over and over again, with copies of himself from the earlier times. He deals with gangsters and himself, he might be a hitman.
Rating : 5
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description: Some kind of detective? timeloop, memories, blind riddle witch, (taurine needed)
(Geoffrey): (rating 2)
What a drag this movie. It starts of ok and looks like a detective (I just call him that, to give him some identity) in a darkish environment. The detective is out to get a box from a bad guy and finds out he is being shadowed. He goes to places he has been before, or that is what he thinks, but whas he actually there, when and how often? That becomes clear in this movie. There is also a family being bonded and blindfolded, waiting to be killed. Why? Nobody know, or at least I don't and to be honest I cared even less. Even taurine was not able to get me alert throughout the whole movie. Some scenes are being replayed a couple of times, to show we are dealing with something weird. No excuses that it is a low budget movie, it is plain boring........
.....and then we have a blind f_cking witch and her f_cked up riddles no-one cares about. He should have solved it, perhaps the movie would have ended better. The detective should have shot her or something, because she is pointless by playing with her bones, forming a hand.
It is the worst movie I saw in these two days.
(Geoffrey): (rating 2)
What a drag this movie. It starts of ok and looks like a detective (I just call him that, to give him some identity) in a darkish environment. The detective is out to get a box from a bad guy and finds out he is being shadowed. He goes to places he has been before, or that is what he thinks, but whas he actually there, when and how often? That becomes clear in this movie. There is also a family being bonded and blindfolded, waiting to be killed. Why? Nobody know, or at least I don't and to be honest I cared even less. Even taurine was not able to get me alert throughout the whole movie. Some scenes are being replayed a couple of times, to show we are dealing with something weird. No excuses that it is a low budget movie, it is plain boring........
.....and then we have a blind f_cking witch and her f_cked up riddles no-one cares about. He should have solved it, perhaps the movie would have ended better. The detective should have shot her or something, because she is pointless by playing with her bones, forming a hand.
It is the worst movie I saw in these two days.
shady character crosses his own path more than once in Lynch-meets-Memento style
Yes, I'm a sucker for film noir and this film visually stood up to the job. The genre allows, almost demands, scenes and drama that you do not completely understand at the beginning. This film though, revelled in repeating the exact same scenes, supposedly adding another layer (two, three!) of meaning and understanding. It stopped the story from going forwards, and the short dense lines, typical to the genre, became boring.
Film noir doesn't have to be about character arcs (...) or portraying the suffering of humankind (one human and his friend Jack will usually do) but it needs advancing elements. This broken-record idea, "accented" too heavily by actual vinyl, became tedious.
I better watch "Dark City" or "Renaissance" again (note to self: how does "Clementine's Last Breath" hold up to this?)
Rating: 6
Memento gone wrong
Links: AFFF / imdb
Nobody is a film noir with a repeating, backwards progressing narrative. Referring to Memento is inevitable and in this case very necessary because it illustrates why that storytelling device worked so well for Memento and miserably fails for Nobody.
The protagonist in Memento suffers from amnesia and doesn't know who he is, where he comes from or who to trust. The audience is kept out of the loop as well, creating a real sense of identification.
Furthermore, the plot device actually serves a grander purpose, it helps to get the theme(s) and message(s) across: are memories reliable? are people honest? and does it matter anyway?
Compare this to Nobody, where they use the backwards shifting plot just to "progress" the plot, and to be able to shoot only about a third of the runlength of the film, because they endlessly repeat entire sequences of the film.
Rating: 5
Links: AFFF / imdb
Nobody is a film noir with a repeating, backwards progressing narrative. Referring to Memento is inevitable and in this case very necessary because it illustrates why that storytelling device worked so well for Memento and miserably fails for Nobody.
The protagonist in Memento suffers from amnesia and doesn't know who he is, where he comes from or who to trust. The audience is kept out of the loop as well, creating a real sense of identification.
Furthermore, the plot device actually serves a grander purpose, it helps to get the theme(s) and message(s) across: are memories reliable? are people honest? and does it matter anyway?
Compare this to Nobody, where they use the backwards shifting plot just to "progress" the plot, and to be able to shoot only about a third of the runlength of the film, because they endlessly repeat entire sequences of the film.
Rating: 5