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Re: The Movie Club

Subject: Re: The Movie Club
by iPink on 2011/10/1 14:34:22

@KTC: I agree that it dragged a lot. I think a big problem was that it was a nontraditional "memoir"-type thing, which means that it did not follow the three-act structure, or the "hill," and it was missing a climax or the essential three "disasters" that generally included in a plot. So basically, there was no plot. It was just a series of events, which of course is how real life works, but it isn't how you tell a story. It works for a short story read in half an hour (as the original work it is based on is), but it wouldn't work for a novel and it doesn't work for a movie. And the characters are ridiculously slutty for the time period. Near the end of the movie, their progressive sexuality was believable. However, WWI-WWII era it really would not do to discuss sex and ask for sex in the way that the characters did in general polite society (although it did make sense in the NYC climate that the female protagonist was a part of). Of course, there were a host of other historical problems, but that one seemed particularly glaring to me.