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Re: signs (***spoilers***) (was: Wow!)
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Patty Teesdale wrote:
> I thought of signs as more of a movie about how aliens invading would
> affect the average Joe. When terrorism occurred i did not jump a plane
> to new york and throw myself into the action. Rather I watched Tv and
> radio, and tried to make sense of it all.
Well, yeah, I made the connection to September 11 too, but watching people
read books and gawk at a TV isn't all that interesting after a while --
especially if the primary reason for having those scenes is so that the
characters can pass on what they heard. Pure expository dialogue is
difficult to pull off at the best of times (_Minority Report_ is *full* of
it, which is one reason why that film was such a let-down), but it's even
worse when the characters are just passing on something they heard on the
TV or, worse, something they read in a book that has no real authority
whatsoever. I mean, at least in the _Left Behind_ movies, the characters
can assume that the Bible has some sort of authority, given that the
Rapture happened and everything; but what's the point of reading some
fringe UFO expert's rambling speculations about alien behaviour?
> I appreciated the fact that the actual characters were questioning and
> hurting people. Rather than a super hero who tries to save the day.
They can be both, though. See _Unbreakable_. :)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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