Wicked lake movie Theyve been

Wicked lake movie

Theyve been wiped out, the memory of who they were and what they did and how they died has been lost forever. And thats repeated an uncountable number of times across the bredth of the British Isles. If Boyle had tried to explain every single scene like this, it would have ruined the film, because wicked lake movie it depends on the sense of being lost and confused to deliver its emotional impact. Every movie ever made relies on the audience making some inferred conclusions. If a guy draws a gun and starts shooting, the audience isnt going to think, Hey, we never saw him put bullets in that gun! What gives? In 28 Days Later, we see a dead family that doesnt appear to have been infected by Rage. Obviously, they were killed by some other side effect of the total breakdown of society. A description of what, exactly, did them in is entirely unnecessary: the point is, even if you can survive the zombies, youre still probably going to die anyway. And no one will ever know, and no one will ever care. Oh, and Elvis, I think that the kid in the dinner does, indeed, say I hate you to Jim, and its not supposed to be just in his head. What I took from that is that the virus doesnt make you mindless, it just makes you so totally consumed with anger that you want to destroy everything and everyone around you, but its still you in there doing all these horrible things. Thats a perfect example of what I was talking about above, how by not explaining everythingin torturous detail enhances the film. Instead of having a scientist character show up to drop an exposition bomb, or interrogating the zombie chained up in the courtyard, or any of that. Instead you get one quick throw-away line of dialogue, and the audience is left thinking, Wait, did that zombie just talk? But that The ramificatons, rather than being spelled out, are implied, which is far more frightening. What I dont get are the people who feel the need to invent wicked lake movie of movie explanations for everything. The movie had plot holes, deal. I dont think that it had any major plot holes, for the reasons Ive covered in freakish detail in my earlier posts. A good movie doesnt explain everything that happens: it trusts its audience to have enough intelligence to figure out that which is not explicitly stated. A good movie engages the audiences imagination, and leaves them thinking about it. Sometimes its about the themes or subtext of the film Is it morally right to sacrifice five soldiers lives to save one private?, sometimes its about plot elements that werent explained in the movie Where do you think those giant burrowing worms came from in the first place?. This is precisely what made 28 Days Later such an interesting movie: it didnt explain every little detail, and left it up to the audience to fill in the holes with their own conjecture. As a side note, I thought the note Jims parents left him was one of the most heart-rending things Ive ever heard in a movie. Imagine how much life must suck if your most fervent wish is for your only child to remain in a persistent vegetative state. All times are GMT The time now is 05:47 AM. Powered by vBulletin Version 3 Copyright 2000 2011, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams is a registered trademark of Creative Loafing Media, Inc. Contents of the Straight Dope Message Board and the Straight Dope Web site are copyright 1984-2011 by Creative Loafing Media, Inc.