Less interesting in comparison to what comes before, and I provide this caveat because the first half of the movie is rock solid – entertaining, compelling, and thoroughly engaging. In Lion, the result is a lot less interesting. In the case of Room, while the narrative changes, the second half is still mostly engaging. In Room, it’s the escape of Joy and Jack, in Lion, it’s the jump in time from 1986 to 2006.
These movies generally have much the same structure, usually a radical change at the midpoint. It happens in movies too, mostly when the second half of a movie is not as strong as the first. The phrase goes back to something football (soccer, to my readers here in the colonies) pundits say when describing a game where the first half is dominated by one team, and the second half dominated by the other. I’ve described a couple of movies as being “of two halves” – Room, most recently.
0 kommentar(er)
