Eastwood has established his film directing style solely on high tension, character progressing dramas that either brings up a question which involves the right of moral obligation or gives a conventional meaning that looks deeper into the human soul. In basically almost all of his films it continues on the exploration of human behavior which we can never fully answer, but can come closer to a better understanding of it. Eastwood hasn't done anything like this film. Everyone questions it, but what happens when you die? There is no proved fact, only theories and beliefs, Eastwood has taken a jump here on actually dealing with the supernatural, and in all of his previous films which solely base on humanity and problems of our own dimension, and Eastwood is reaching out. That can be good and bad at the same time.
Morgan's script is a very low-key art-house type of drama which is totally new territory for Eastwood. This script is designed for a slow and meaningful story that utterly is focusing on beauty of life than anything else. Eastwood's hits the mark with it and doesn't miss, he has a clear understanding of this story, but it just is sort of awkward. He is out of his element with this one and he is forcing the combination of this low-key drama with the attributes of his own style. Performances were okay, Damon who is the main headliner of this film, doesn't deliver an Oscar worthy performance, but he doesn't deliver a bad one either, he just plainly meets expectations.
There are many parts where performances (including Damon's) that are very stiff and unemotional. Its either they were rushing through shooting or messed up in editing, but whatever the case is, at times very awkward performances show up and take a scene totally out of its own balance. I think if Eastwood wanted to take more of a super-natural thriller than a low key super-natural drama; he should have chosen another script, the story is very nice and all, but it focuses more on the beauty of storytelling and its comparison to life in a metaphorical manner than it is exploring it. Eastwood takes this and does a good job with it, sort of getting by, but quite frankly it just didn't fit in with his film-making style and it can run sort of an awkward course at times. But overall, the story still maintains its focus on the beauty of life and is extremely unique.
Morgan's script is a very low-key art-house type of drama which is totally new territory for Eastwood. This script is designed for a slow and meaningful story that utterly is focusing on beauty of life than anything else. Eastwood's hits the mark with it and doesn't miss, he has a clear understanding of this story, but it just is sort of awkward. He is out of his element with this one and he is forcing the combination of this low-key drama with the attributes of his own style. Performances were okay, Damon who is the main headliner of this film, doesn't deliver an Oscar worthy performance, but he doesn't deliver a bad one either, he just plainly meets expectations.
There are many parts where performances (including Damon's) that are very stiff and unemotional. Its either they were rushing through shooting or messed up in editing, but whatever the case is, at times very awkward performances show up and take a scene totally out of its own balance. I think if Eastwood wanted to take more of a super-natural thriller than a low key super-natural drama; he should have chosen another script, the story is very nice and all, but it focuses more on the beauty of storytelling and its comparison to life in a metaphorical manner than it is exploring it. Eastwood takes this and does a good job with it, sort of getting by, but quite frankly it just didn't fit in with his film-making style and it can run sort of an awkward course at times. But overall, the story still maintains its focus on the beauty of life and is extremely unique.
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