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Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Perhaps the "schizoid-film" is still in its experimential stage, then.
Decades ago, plotting and narrative were simpler... more obvious, more straightforward. This pleased the people of these times.
Today's audiences seem ready for anything - but are they really? Maybe the visual suggestions in the likes of Haute Tension that do not take "reality" for granted are ahead of their time, even though they could reflect an increasingly unstable population as we struggle to control our brains and cope with modern life. Maybe this style is the shape of films to come as "reality" becomes less and less meaningful?
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its a good point - i think of films like Jacob's Ladder and can't actually say what it was about (many threads that don't provide a single coherent point) - but i loved that film. the experience worked for me. a film like high tension, which i liked in ways, left me feeling, for want of a better term, 'cheated.' but i don't really know why?
I appreciate many open-ended films - like American Psycho (which i thought was very smart) - but not HT. i guess i'm still trying to figure out why.