[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven

So...what was the name of the film? Was it a documentary or like a story?

Originally Posted by TinyEvel

Rainman, what did the director say in their intro? Any conceptual hoo-hah that might've given you some insight in how to receive this?

Sounds more like a film art installation than a "movie", I've been to art museums where you walk into a dark room and something like this is playing on the wall.

Only movie I walked out on was THE MASTER. Waste of two good actors in a terribly boring film. also, one other film around 2001 was called the Dinner or something about a dysfunctional family gathering after one family member died. It was dark and depressing, can't remember the name.

The director's intro was pretty routine, just thanking people and talking very briefly about the process of making the movie. The one key foreshadowing statement she made was something like, "I didn't intend this to be a documentary (on the nonfiction subject matter). My goal was to present how (the nonfiction subject matter) makes me feel."

My wife's theory after the movie was that the director was intentionally making the movie uncomfortable and disturbing to reflect the fact that she felt uncomfortable and disturbed about the subject matter (which, I'll reveal, is climate change). I can see that if she was going for pure avant-garde, but I don't think I fully agree with it.

I think each of the three scenes was meant to portray human impacts. The first scene was nothing but water, and that was pre-human. The second scene with the still scenery and random wildlife sounds was the introduction of people (or maybe wildlife) into nature. And the third scene with the boat was intended to show humans beginning to exploit nature. That would kind of make sense as a literal interpretation, but jimmy Christmas, you can do that a lot more efficiently than making us stare at nothingness for 48 minutes. Maybe if I had stayed longer, I would have cracked the code with confidence.

Originally Posted by ToxSocks

Anyway....you can't tell use all that and not tell us the name of the movie. At this point, i want to stream it just to see how bad it is.

I'm looking for it, and I don't see it yet. Since this was a "world premiere", I'm guessing it's not available anywhere yet. I'll be curious to see if it actually makes it to a public screening, because I don't think it should.

Originally Posted by DJJasonp

I was a film major.

That sounds like a college student film trying way too hard to be ironic.

You're even more right than you think. I'm almost positive that they introduced her as a professor of film studies.

My theory is that she was going for something really deep and symbolic. However, if people eventually get frustrated and annoyed enough to leave, you're not going to deliver your message. I think she tried to go high art and didn't acknowledge that it also has to engage the viewer in some way.

There was no context of anything in the 48 minutes that I saw. If she didn't say in the intro that it was about climate change, I would've never known.