One thing I've found interesting is audience's trouble with
time shifts.
This movie employs flashbacks and even a few flash forwards
as
characters envision what is about to happen. These are
standard tools
in a novel and no one seems to have trouble following them. I
am
surprised how many people have trouble with the same device
in movies.
You hear a number of people in the theater asking, "Wait,
when is this
happening?" Tarantino reintroduced this into recent film
(cribbing from
Kubrick's The Killing, among others). Remember how many
people couldn't
figure out why the Travolta character was shown alive after
he was shot
by the Bruce Willis character? Simple, this happened earlier.
Why do
so many people have trouble with this?
Mark
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