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Viennale '07 screening with Q+A

posted 17 years ago by some_fancy_name
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"what is Don Mckellar famous for in Canada?" and "How did he get aware of the project?" those where the question i asked Director Reginald Harkema on the mentioned Q&A.
He explained that he had been working as an editor for Don Mckellar for a while and ended up writing him and McKellar's real life girlfriend Tracy Wright into a sreenplay he had pitched back in 2001.
The original screenplay actually involved a suicide bomber character but since Harkema pitched it to the company in the morning of september 11 2001 it proved as a "no go"er for obvious reasons.
It was a brief Q&A but the director managed to come across very relaxed, informative and huge!!(this guy is probably around 6'5 and has a healthy weight)

The Movie itself was a low budget Arthouse affair.
Good performance by Mckellar, very subtle comedic timing.The Actresses where both so-so.
The Story had some interesting turns and kept well out of cliche territory which is a thing that u dont see very often.
A healthy amount of humor helped the pacing.
I just wish the would have dug deeper into the backround story of the main characters instead of just mentioning it briefly in form of a tempered bust out at the end.
Ironically another weakness of the movie was the editing job! Very rough and flowless plus some of the "cut in"s where rather annoying.

All in all i give it 6 out 10.

Hope i could help

[–] frogca 15 years ago

> I just wish the would have dug deeper into the backround story of the main characters instead of just mentioning it briefly in form of a tempered bust out at the end

Their background wasn't that important. They are people who had an exaggerated sense of self importance and did something violent, which does nothing to improve the world, which is what they said they wanted to do. It does no more than the violence by the younger self righteous person in the movie who didn't want to improve the world because she "already knows it's *beep*

I've met people like this who plan violence and talk about secret cells and cabals and they bug me and this movie was right on the money, plot wise, although they could have thrown in more of the self righteous benighted radical jargon I've heard lots of over the years.