I felt uneasy about this movie from the very start. I just never bought any of what there were selling. I just couldn't picture Antonio Banderas as a washed up writer. His drinking looked like how an 8 years old child would portray a drunk by swigging out of the bottle. Does anyone really drink like that? His relationship with his realtor seemed phony.
I wrote those lines somewhere around the middle of the film. I knew something smelled fishy. As it turns out it was all part of the gimmick. Relying on gimmicks almost never makes for good films and that is true in this case. It's like the writers wanted desperately to put themselves into the story by trying WAY too hard to come off as clever and original. I love "clever" and "original" but those are hard to pull off so it's better to shoot for plain ordinary "good." I recognize the writing in this as something that plagues a lot of cinema these days. I just don't think these writers read enough (if at all) and thus they base everything the write on films they have seen. It's like they are making a copy from a bad copy.
I can't remember seeing Jonathan Rhys Meyers before but he was quite good in his role.
I wrote those lines somewhere around the middle of the film. I knew something smelled fishy. As it turns out it was all part of the gimmick. Relying on gimmicks almost never makes for good films and that is true in this case. It's like the writers wanted desperately to put themselves into the story by trying WAY too hard to come off as clever and original. I love "clever" and "original" but those are hard to pull off so it's better to shoot for plain ordinary "good." I recognize the writing in this as something that plagues a lot of cinema these days. I just don't think these writers read enough (if at all) and thus they base everything the write on films they have seen. It's like they are making a copy from a bad copy.
I can't remember seeing Jonathan Rhys Meyers before but he was quite good in his role.