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by glowsw
I think the argument you suggest is an interesting one but I think it's giving Aja a little too much credit. From what I remember of the making of features on the DVD next to no credit is given to any of the influences he is obviously drawing from (especially Intensity and Maniac). I agree completely about the unreliable narrator but I'm inclined to think that bits of the film are more of a rip-off of other people's work than they are meant for anything more intelligent.
Great review though. You definitely bring up interesting and thought provoking points!
-Elissa
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Nov 08 '06
12:36 pm PST
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by lambchops
a "cop out twist" I still can't help but be interested in High Tension (Switchblade Romance?). In any case, yeah...I'm gonna see it. Thanks for the first good review I've written that's not by a fanboy. I hate fanboys sometimes.
Shelly.
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Jun 05 '05
1:19 pm PDT
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by WilliamJones
...rather than viewing the events in the film as legitimate and happening in narrative real time, one must instead look at them as memories from a clearly unreliable narrator.
I'd suggest the director might be attempting something along the lines of a nouveau roman given the "unreliable narrator" idea. The director is French, right? Well there you go. He's probably watched Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad or read a number of these types of books.
Maybe he caught Memento as well.
Sounds interesting, but then I go for French stuff.
-William
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Jun 03 '05
3:32 pm PDT
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Great review...I have been waiting to read your take on this one. (Reply to this comment)
by amsyco13
After being told by many that I just didn't get it, its refreshing to see someone else feels the same way as I do. I watched it again last night, and I am still not buying into it 100%.
But you are right about it inspiring thought and conversation. And it is also great to see a horror film that uses actual literary devices in it, such as the unreliable narrator. When this is used right, it really opens a film up to personal interpretation.
My main problem with the twist is that it just changes everything we just saw, and what we just saw was fantastic. It was so sweet to see a heroine that didn't fall prey to the boneheaded decisions that plague the retards in other horror films. But then we find out that that is not what we saw either.
Plus the film gives us possibly the greatest and smartest horror heroine ever, only to rip her from us.
Even with the twist, it is still the best horror film I have seen in a couple months.
I agree with you 100%. I have a feeling one day it will all click, one way or another.
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Jun 03 '05
12:23 pm PDT
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