Is the Ending Real or a Screenplay?
Based on your movie review, it can be interpreted to mean that there is really only one screenwriter who has written a screenplay that has two screenwriters who are brothers and that we are seeing this screenplay being acted out on the screen. The reality and fantasy are blended throughout the entire movie and in real life then the brother never existed and thus was never killed and while there was an Orchid expert and a novel writer who actually wrote a book, the actual end of reality is when the book ends and the storyline then is made up based on the screenwriter idea that came from a screenwriter workshop to just end with a big finale regardless of what came before.
Re: Is the Ending Real or a Screenplay?
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Originally posted by tabuno
Based on your movie review, it can be interpreted to mean that there is really only one screenwriter who has written a screenplay that has two screenwriters who are brothers and that we are seeing this screenplay being acted out on the screen. The reality and fantasy are blended throughout the entire movie and in real life then the brother never existed and thus was never killed and while there was an Orchid expert and a novel writer who actually wrote a book, the actual end of reality is when the book ends and the storyline then is made up based on the screenwriter idea that came from a screenwriter workshop to just end with a big finale regardless of what came before.
Yes, that's what I got from the film.
I think. :)
You've seen it, I assume?
Saw It Last Weekend and Didn't Like The Ending
Based on your interpretation of the movie, how someone perceives the ending can change dramatically. I wonder how many other people saw the movie the way you did. If your interpretation stands up, it would make the movie brilliant and worthy of movie award nominations on a number of counts.
Re: Saw It Last Weekend and Didn't Like The Ending
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Originally posted by tabuno
Based on your interpretation of the movie, how someone perceives the ending can change dramatically. I wonder how many other people saw the movie the way you did. If your interpretation stands up, it would make the movie brilliant and worthy of movie award nominations on a number of counts.
Ironically, Kaufman also breaks the rules during the finale--explicitly the use of a deus ex machina.
My problem with the movie is that I saw how it was going to play out well before any of it started to happen.
AP News File Confirms Ending!
This just in in today's AP, "Kaufman jokingly fantasizes in the film's climax that Orlean was a drug-crazed, would-be killer."
I Did Get Sort Of Knocked On My Head
The blurry transition towards the end of the movie was confusing and harsh for me. While the movie was brilliant, there really was a point of crazy absurdity which really didn't feel smooth and was so off-kilter that I left a confused, dazed, disappointed aftertaste in my mind.