i would like to, so feel free to carry on here. i want to elaborate on *liking* morvern callar... because that's what i believe these boards are mainly for.
but... it's probably more fun to make fun of/misinterpret/dis on one of the most beautifully executed movies of the decade.
Depends on what you'd like to discuss. I love this movie, although I can completely understand why people wouldn't. It's hypnotic, disturbing and gorgeous. I love how nothing is really explained and even if Morvern is not a sympathetic character, I find her totally fascinating. I love the whole theme of decay in the movie.
I'm reading the book again to try and compare the two.
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Thank you for your response, sorry I'm almost two years late. It's now April 2013 and I still have a copy of Morvern Callar on my nightstand. I've read other work by Alan Warner and he basically is just very established with his weird style of underground fiction. It was risky for them to ever make it into a movie. I understand people not liking it either - but even when I felt that way during moments in the film I didn't want to like scream and throw the DVD out the window and talk bad about it. I don't like the hotel parts because they make NO SENSE like why does the door slam so hard behind her? Does she have a ghost situation or something? What's with the hot guy and the sex scene, why does she flee, who is he? That stuff is frustrating but cryptic. I don't like how it's incoherent in the plot, but I want to talk about it because maybe there's an artistic interpretation that will make me view the film differently. That's what I meant with this post, despite the dislike of it, it's really damn fascinating, strange, experimental, odd, hypnotic. It was kind of more of a performance art film that should've been showed in galleries, not put on the video shelf. It's just not really designed for the movie-goers, it's barely possible to even summarize the plot.
shareHey. I think your 'fascinating, strange, experimental, odd, hypnotic' line sums it up. It's almost an ambient film. To answer your questions, the door probably slammed shut as she'd been out on the balcony. It was the wind blowing. The sex just happens to be something that happens. The fleeing feels like either her fear and need to still escape further, and/or a way to get Lanna out the way so she can meet the publishers.
Morvern is in shock, and her processing can explain the incoherence. There's a whole bunch of plotholes though.
I read the book years ago, and remember a few differences.
The sex just happens to be something that happens.
The fleeing feels like either her fear and need to still escape further,
It's never explained how she gets back to the town, or Lanna gets to Aqualand. But then we're sharing Morvern's take on events.
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