The movie was very long. I didn't get it. I know it was about the people and their lives, but other than that I don't know. Why did Gus kill himself? How do you put a plastic bag over your head and suffocate yourself? Did he feel bad about what happen with Linda? If Calvin wanted so bad to make a go with his girlfriend why did he go sleep with Lee? So many questions unanswered.I know I probally need to watch it a couple more times but I don't think I can.
shareI'm gonna watch it tomorrow. If I get through it, I'll try to provide some answers. I watched about fifteen minutes of it today, but got distracted.
I have seen all of Soderberg's film except KAFKA and SOLARIS. From what I saw, this one looks a lot like SCHIZOPOLIS, only in a more serious vein.
Money won't buy you friends, Riddlershare
I enjoyed this film a lot once I got into it. It begins in a very confusing, negative way and I think this turns a lot of people off, but once the style settles down, there is a lot of screwball humour and some very human storytelling.
*Gus did not kill himself. His death was acciedental, a regrettably common outcome of auto-erotic asphyxiation activities. (Note that when Gus is talking Linda into giving him a "happy ending" he asks her to pass him the plastic bag.)
*Calvin's comments about Lucy, (where he speaks highly of their new relationship,) seem to be the usual hypocritical BS that actors speak when talking about their love lives to the media. Lucy herself, (when she is talking to Carl early in the film,) puts forward a theory that creates a distinction between sex and love. Acting is by nature a polygamous occupation.
In this respect, the film is a parody of Hollywood values. Julia roberts parodies her own emotional insecurities when, as Francesca, she is completely smitten by "Sam Osbourne", a nobody who simply happens to remember something she said before she was famous. For Fran, the attraction is purely egocentric.
Actors are renowned for the central emptiness of their lives, (this is what enables them to "become" someone else,) and it is sad how they attempt to compensate for this through their love lives.
Watch the film again, Kaylynn195, it really is very good.
Money won't buy you friends, Riddlershare
The movie was full of inside jokes, that really only the director and actors understood. For the rest of us mere mortals, it was pure nonsense.
For example, Gus dying of auto-erotic asphyxiation was a shout-out to the X-Files episode when Clyde Bruckman tells Mulder he will die from auto-erotic asphyxiation.
I only got that joke cause I'm a Duchovny fan. Every other part of the movie flew over my head.
HA!! i never thought that! Yeah i agree, i didnt get alot of the film.. i thought it was quite boring actually..
"The finalised alligning of objects, cease to rest my mind."
I really didn't get the whole point of this film either, but since someone actually liked it I guess it's worth re-evaluation... Funny. It wasn't so long ago a watched this film, but I can't remember any scenes with Julia Roberts in it...
sharei dont think this film was meant to have a real resolution or any real outcome from where they began, its simply a segment of these peoples lives when they all happen to cross paths at one point or another during these 3 days
shareThat's the beauty of the film. It wasn't a typical, narrated, everything-get's-spelt-out kind of flick. The photography of this film reminded me heaps of Neon Genesis Evangelion while each story line was like a Bret Easton Ellis novel. I was pleasantly surprised by this film, will definatly purchase it.
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