Spent an evening listening to German 1980's punk/new wave/synth dance - like breaking down a wall called the Future. Then went into another room and watched this film.
Dreaded reading the reviews here afterwards to find out what kind of sentimental idiot I am. Yep, a sad case.
And yet: pick a spot in the film to start with. How about Madeleine Stowe saying something to the effect that she thought she had it all only to find that she had nothing at all? Not what she says: but how she says it. Did she find it easy to open her face like that? And what about her lying dead and men trying to save the children? How did she manage to look so dead - when she obviously wasn't dead-looking?
The thing about plots is not are they realistic/logical, but do they work. The trick is to find out what the plot is really about. The plot of The Proposition centres on Madeleine Stowe's question: How does she have such power over men?
I'm sure you know the answer now, if you have actually watched this film.
Dreaded reading the reviews here afterwards to find out what kind of sentimental idiot I am. Yep, a sad case.
And yet: pick a spot in the film to start with. How about Madeleine Stowe saying something to the effect that she thought she had it all only to find that she had nothing at all? Not what she says: but how she says it. Did she find it easy to open her face like that? And what about her lying dead and men trying to save the children? How did she manage to look so dead - when she obviously wasn't dead-looking?
The thing about plots is not are they realistic/logical, but do they work. The trick is to find out what the plot is really about. The plot of The Proposition centres on Madeleine Stowe's question: How does she have such power over men?
I'm sure you know the answer now, if you have actually watched this film.