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The Narrator

posted 10 years ago by spookyrat1
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... added nothing that I could detect to the movie. I think it was a pretentious attempt on the part of Ole Bornedal to add some greater feeling of importance to the film than it actually deserves.🐭

[–] yurenchu 8 years ago

The movie is a black comedy (or a satire). The characters, even the good guys, are caricatures that we shouldn't take too seriously. The story is being presented to us by the filmmaker rather smugly and farcically as a (modern) fable, hence the narrator which adds to a literary feel of the movie. Compare to, for example, Romeo + Julia (1996) ("Two households, both alike in dignity, in Fair Verona where we lay our scene...").

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Joe Satriani - "Always With Me, Always With You"
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[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

Compare to, for example, Romeo + Julia (1996)

LOL! No, I find that a bit hard and too complimentary. More a cinematic rip-off of Straw Dogs.🐭

[–] yurenchu 8 years ago

I don't mean the plot; I mean the use of the narrator.

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Joe Satriani - "Always With Me, Always With You"
http://youtu.be/VI57QHL6ge0