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Oy, who ELSE just could not get into this film?

posted 13 years ago by DogtownGirl
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I usually like relationship films, and foreign fare at that. Saw this film at Seattle's SIFF today, and just could not get into it as much as I'd hoped I would be able to. Not sorry I went to see it. Glad I experienced the movie, but, it didn't engross me.

The characters seemed to fall in and out of "love" (whatever it meant for them) too easily and I have to question films wherein folks jump into having sex at the drop of a hat, as well. I guess too many frames are used it to script folks actually getting to KNOW one another?

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[–] lamont-hard 12 years ago

I felt the Blond wife was the only one who showed emotions as being betrayed as she tried to get her husband beaten by the gay guy. Something I did not understand was they were falling for each other but nothing was discussed about what they would do. She clearly was in love with her husband and he was the same with his wife. I also found it odd that she felt no remorse about sleeping with the husband, then looking the wife in the face as if everything had not taken place.

[–] DogtownGirl 12 years ago

lamont-harden, another thing that bothered me about this film were those goofy musical interludes, whereby the "Greek Chorus" sang about the plot. I thought those were too out of place, too "cute", too forced as though the film-makers were TRYING too hard to be funny.

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[–] DogtownGirl 12 years ago

Yeah, that's basically my take on matters and seeing other Norwegian films, BuzzSF.

Don't give up on the genre, is my thought, as well. But, I did find the humour in Happy, happy to be a bit forcibly cute as though it were interjected in order to make a point (as in "Laugh Now, you fools!"). I think the folks who put the film together knew they were being cute, or some such. The humour's awfully dead-pan. Kind of like Wes Anderson's but without the artfulness.

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[–] speedo58 12 years ago

I kept thinking, "Is every Swedish film about a chorus?" I think I've seen at least 3.

[–] DogtownGirl 12 years ago

Yes, speedo58

Well, "Happy Happy" was a Norwegian film, wasn't it? I think it was.

Anyway, the sense of humour is so very dry over there in Norway, and some of their films are fond of the insertion of random "Greek Choruses" to explain the surrounding plot or action. Well, either the choruses help to elucidate what is going on, or they ironically launch off into entirely different territory. If they do the latter, then it's the discrepancy between the plot / action of the film(s) and that of what's in (seeing) those choruses break in, that is (allegedly) so hilarious.

I mean, I get it. I just don't think that it's all THAT funny.

Woody Allen did it (the insertion of the Greek Chorus) better in "Mighty Aphrodite", actually.

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