An open request to any who may wish to copy this films methods

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Thank you Mr. Burnham for your reply. I am aware that this film was a product of Germany (if I remember correctly, as I have already just this morning returned this disk to Netflix.com, and am awaiting delivery on my Amazon.com purchase of the same, so I can't be sure, although I do remember that it was not a U.S. based production. So please extend me some leeway if I am wrong on production origin.)

I used "Hollywood" in a generic sense to signify the movie industry in general as in the context of my post, It was late at night and suffering from chronic pain issues since 2001 and using Opiate based medication to control that pain, as well as an aggravation/flare-up to my PTSD caused by the violent depictions of both a violent gun murder and the suicide by gun.(I don't do well with up-close depictions of gunshots to the face or head) I just couldn't come up with the appropriate word or phrase at the time to make that point that I was intending. I had assumed (wrongly, as I now am aware as your post would indicate) that by putting the word "Hollywood" in quotations would reinforce that I meant the film industry in general, but I now see that confusion may have further developed by my lack of quotations on my second use of the word.

While I appreciate that you have given feedback to a post on a movie almost 4 years after it's release, in which I really held little hope that anyone would read and only hoped that the studio involved may subscribe to a service that aggregates what is being said about them or their products, but for the most part, I am aware that mine is most likely only seen as a rant and will not be taken seriously. But I write anyway in hopes to catch the ear of somebody that matters, as I believe that it is well beyond time to retire the "flashback" way of telling a story. In my opinion, it has become a joke and a lazy way to deliver a story to viewers. Although eventually on subsequent viewings, I did eventually appreciate and maybe even enjoyed this story as depicted (notice I didn't say I "loved" it), I understand that the book was written chronologically and wish that those involved in translating this book or multiple stories to screen should have followed that way of telling the story/stories.

Mr Burnham, on an unrelated note, I clicked on the link in your reply thinking that it may be relevant to your reply to me, and while I am aware that it may be due to my "color-blindness" (78% deficiency over the red/green Spectrum) I found it very difficult to read anything where you used the color as in the words and phrases "Index 2--->" and "as a separate page" without either changing the color with an app I have to assist color-blind individuals or to ask somebody to read it to me. I know it may be difficult to understand if you yourself are not color-blind, but could you maybe consider in the future using more natural colors in future web designs to assist the one in four male population that have this problem? We would appreciate it! And I look forward to reading your blog after I get a bite to eat and some housework done.

I again Thank You for your reply to my post and I will look into an alternate way of replacing the "Hollywood" reference in my post.

Exactly my thoughts.

Also about the flashback methods being mentioned like in Forrest Gump and Saving Pvt Ryan, they were all very direct. A scene where an older character recollects events from the past. I understand that it's boring and overused but the concept can still be tuned to be better. An example of it would be like in Memento or Hateful Eight where certain parts of the story hinges on these flashback moments but not entirely depicted in them.

Are you serious with this response? In any movie that is harder than normal to follow or understand, every time somebody asks a question about it on IMDB, they usually get a response like yours that is full of condescension or highly defensive. Several posts for this movie alone have asked for help understanding it, and in return they get some kind of response that will call into question their intelligence, then be told to stick to transformers. I loved the book, so I understood this movie, and still hated it. I think it would have done better as a TV series though, because it could have been decompressed more like the book is. And although he is incorrect about this movie containing flashbacks, I can tell the OP is not an idiot from his syntax and careful attention in his post. If this movie is hard for somebody with an above average IQ to understand, than it must have been grueling for the vast majority of the viewing public. When you create a work of art (as all films are, even the bad ones)that contains too many unconventional devices at once, it becomes too convoluted and hard to follow fast.