Comments | obandsoller: Revolutionary Road

obandsoller

Revolutionary Road

Feb 11, 2009 04:02

Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty; I watched those films back in '99, and fell in love with cinema. I feel somewhat shamed by inclusion of The Matrix being in that list of formative films. Any pleasure I get from watching scenes I loved in The Matrix is now tainted by the knowledge that what I thought was great in them, grew into something ( Read more... )

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friend_of_tofu February 22 2009, 00:22:05 UTC

Completely OT, just commenting to say how nice it was to meet you on Sunday, and adding you as a friend. I don't like to do something so intimate without at least telling people first.

obandsoller February 24 2009, 19:05:40 UTC

Lovely meeting you too! Hopefully trying to spend as much time with Sebastian as I can will mean I'll run into you again.

Thanks for the message - it's appreciated.

mr_ben March 16 2009, 21:00:23 UTC

I avoided reading your review until I'd finished the book, so sorry if this seems a little bit late.

Just wanted to say that I think you should (if you haven't already) read the novel, which might influence your thoughts about the role of the "extras" - in particular the children.

I haven't seen the movie, but I'm told that (perhaps inevitably) it lacks one of the key qualities of the novel, which is the characters' unspoken thoughts. Indeed much of what I enjoyed about the book takes place in the characters' imaginations.

There is also much to say about perspective, and again I wonder how successfully this could have been translated for the movie.

I guess these are fairly obvious things to say (and we've said them before about other book-to-movie adaptations) but they seem worth noting here, especially as you talk about some of the movie's aesthetic qualities.

obandsoller March 19 2009, 02:25:22 UTC

I expected you to know that I'd never feel it bad to return to old conversational threads. I would like to reply now, or have been able to do so sooner, but haven't had the time to properly think about a reply. So my own reply might take a while to appear.

obandsoller April 10 2009, 22:17:42 UTC

I'm being really bad at reading at the moment (bundle of reasons, but none I can articulate that well). I certainly intend to read it, but unfortunately lots of intention has failed to turn into actual reading ( ... )