Change Your Image
cshap2001
Reviews
Chain (2004)
Beauty in the Mundane
In a chain, one element leads to another which leads to another and there is little change from one element to the next. It is this idea that Chain portrays well. With shots of shopping malls, highways, and office parks from around the country, Chain shows how uniform American culture has become with the help of corporations. What it perhaps does better, is show beauty in the mundane. Chain is filled with scenes presenting simple beauty of breeze through a construction site, contrasting colors of parking lots at dusk, reflections in the glass of office buildings, and the graphic beauty in a confluence of stairways. The story in Chain is subtle. Two different women tell in a sometimes diary, sometimes inner voice, their personal takes on the sameness of place to place and the desires to want what you don't have. The story is almost too subtle at times, however, with the audience wishing that it would have lead to a stronger point.