Well, first off seeing that the writer / producer (director?) of the film took the time to answer someone's post here about stopping time, I can see that they clearly are taking a real interest in what people are saying, which is great. First and foremost, this was an excellent idea! Overall, the mood, feel, and direction, not to mention the acting (which I would expect to suffer in a film like this) was of high caliber and well handled, except... And here comes the painful part and I will try very hard not to give away anything too specific in discussing this. Guys... the turn the film took when he went into the other guy's house... Come ON now!!??? For Goodness sake...! Talk about taking a truly beautiful concept that was handled in a totally lovely way and then about 3/4 the way through completely destroying it. I'm sorry guys, really...
Okay... I think I'm gonna hafta mark spoilers here to make my point...
***** SPOILERS AHEAD *****
All right, you have this delightful, tender, gentle, poignant, touching, moving story going (I think you get my point) and then what you do when he goes into the guys house is SUCH a total dead end, so TOTALLY unnecessary and COMPLETELY divergent from the entire mood and direction of the film that you had taken ALL this time to set up beforehand! I mean, our sympathies are completely with the guy and you worked it quite BEAUTIFULLY up to there. So, I'm thinking, 'Ah, I bet I know what's gonna happen; he's gonna go inside this guy's house and find out that he is like a serial killer or something like that and THEN he will hafta figure out a way to warn her and you have all this GREAT excitement and THRILLING stuff they go through, and then they end up at least as friends together or whatever in this wondrous new world of theirs.'
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Uh... No... that WOULD have been awesome! To me, THAT would have been a perfect and satisfying way to resolve the story; the audience would have come away feeling like 'Wow, what a great idea and a lovely film!'
WHY oh WHY on Earth did you take it in that direction and just have it turn into this, forgive me, stupid ending with him just coming across now as some kind of idiot weirdo. Really...? Your ENTIRE ending rests completely on a TOTALLY unintentional, almost comical ACCIDENT...??!!! And that is what you based that whole last part of the film on...??? GEEZ guys, I cannot even BEGIN to express how disappointing that was. I honestly think that in doing that with the story, it really left you feeling COMPLETELY empty and like, 'Oh, that's it...?'
So, for me personally, that destroyed, torched, and ruined the whole thing. It made the difference between keeping the film and tossing it. I'm really sorry, I truly do not mean to be unkind, but I want you to KNOW how passionately I feel about this. I have seen I don't know thousands and thousands of films and I honestly cannot think of another movie off hand that built the first 3/4 so beautifully and then threw it away senselessly like that, Not one...
I would LOVE to know why the Makers of this film took the story in that particular direction when you seemed to be pointing everyone in a much different one. I mean it was so tender and touching the way he was trying to help her and reach out to her and connect with her, etc. It just doesn't make ANY sense at all, it truly doesn't. It is quite frustrating when you think of how much BETTER the story could have turned out... That is why I only gave the film a 5 because of the direction it took and the ending; otherwise I think I would have given it at least an 8 or more...
Okay... I think I'm gonna hafta mark spoilers here to make my point...
***** SPOILERS AHEAD *****
All right, you have this delightful, tender, gentle, poignant, touching, moving story going (I think you get my point) and then what you do when he goes into the guys house is SUCH a total dead end, so TOTALLY unnecessary and COMPLETELY divergent from the entire mood and direction of the film that you had taken ALL this time to set up beforehand! I mean, our sympathies are completely with the guy and you worked it quite BEAUTIFULLY up to there. So, I'm thinking, 'Ah, I bet I know what's gonna happen; he's gonna go inside this guy's house and find out that he is like a serial killer or something like that and THEN he will hafta figure out a way to warn her and you have all this GREAT excitement and THRILLING stuff they go through, and then they end up at least as friends together or whatever in this wondrous new world of theirs.'
*** END SPOILERS ***
Uh... No... that WOULD have been awesome! To me, THAT would have been a perfect and satisfying way to resolve the story; the audience would have come away feeling like 'Wow, what a great idea and a lovely film!'
WHY oh WHY on Earth did you take it in that direction and just have it turn into this, forgive me, stupid ending with him just coming across now as some kind of idiot weirdo. Really...? Your ENTIRE ending rests completely on a TOTALLY unintentional, almost comical ACCIDENT...??!!! And that is what you based that whole last part of the film on...??? GEEZ guys, I cannot even BEGIN to express how disappointing that was. I honestly think that in doing that with the story, it really left you feeling COMPLETELY empty and like, 'Oh, that's it...?'
So, for me personally, that destroyed, torched, and ruined the whole thing. It made the difference between keeping the film and tossing it. I'm really sorry, I truly do not mean to be unkind, but I want you to KNOW how passionately I feel about this. I have seen I don't know thousands and thousands of films and I honestly cannot think of another movie off hand that built the first 3/4 so beautifully and then threw it away senselessly like that, Not one...
I would LOVE to know why the Makers of this film took the story in that particular direction when you seemed to be pointing everyone in a much different one. I mean it was so tender and touching the way he was trying to help her and reach out to her and connect with her, etc. It just doesn't make ANY sense at all, it truly doesn't. It is quite frustrating when you think of how much BETTER the story could have turned out... That is why I only gave the film a 5 because of the direction it took and the ending; otherwise I think I would have given it at least an 8 or more...