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Originally Posted by neverending
I loved Blair Witch. However- its legacy has been bad. Home Movie didn't pass itself off as real.
Perhaps I read it wrong but our poster says:
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I read it more like:
Abundant Sunshine is the "assembled home video tapes of serial killer Jonathan Rainer's life and murders."
I just don't take it seriously. Just as any marketing ploy describes the plot of the film, part of the "plot" in this case is that the police have gotten hold of these tapes and that's what we're watching. We're
meant to believe that these are the assembled tapes of a murderer. It's how the story is set. even though it's spoon-feeding the audience, it's sort of necessary to suspend our disbelief; it's not just
any tapes... They're FOUND tapes... FROM THE KILLER HIMSELF!! :eek:
Also, just as with movies like Home Movie and even Blue Velvet, the audience is as much a main character as the actors are; cinema like this is a reflective view on the actual voyeurism of the audience member. By setting up the "plot" as being "assembled home video tapes" reminds the viewer that we're almost as bad as the killer themselves; we're just as voyeuristic and sadistic and just as implicated. It's introducing another member to the combined cast - The Viewer.