Thoughts on Storytelling
-Two unrelated stories--"Fiction" in which Selma Blair plays a student in a creative writing class, taught by an intimidating black writer (Robert Wisdom), and the much longer "Non-Fiction", where Mark Webber (you know, that guy from Scott Pilgrim is a disaffected teen with vague dreams of having a talk show, a shoe salesman who wants to make a documentary about him and his family (rather grotesque parents John Goodman and Julie Hagerty, obnoxiously awful fifth-grader Jonathan Osser, and relatively normal middle child Noah Fleiss)--share common themes of what makes something fictional.
-Many layers of the question, that I won't get into right now.
-I won't lie: much of the metaness in this movie comes off as Solondz beating his critics to the punch, both as a ploy to come off as self-aware and an attempt to write off his own shock-value (especially evidenced in the first segment).
-This depressed me. I can't go on.
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yes this movie, like all the rest of his movies, are terribly depressing. If him and charlie kauffman got together to write a flick it might cause a mass suicide amongst any who would watch it...still I love their movies, i just have to make sure I am in a strong state of mind before watching ie no drugs, no booze, no hangovers and the world must feel like it's the most perfect place before i pop one of these in the dvd player :o)
Solondz is grating to say in the least and talentless on top of that.
Sadly, this was not Solondz' strongest effort but it certainly had potential. I was far more interested in "Fiction" than "Non-Fiction."
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