The Game (1997)
The first San Francisco set movie we chose to see after our trip I fear suffers upon revisiting.
Once you know how it will end it’s difficult to see suspense develop for characters whose fate you still remember. At most, the revisit highlights details about the character’s relationship to his brother and father (i.e. sibling rivalry & parental suicide issues,) you might have missed or might not remember, and which might possibly justify the trip down the dark Nietzschean tunnel to the light beyond.
A tale not unlike that of Job, where a character loses everything little by little, except that the biblical version cares little for its character’s personal growth.
But was the trip necessary?
Andre Gregory (along with others) had already described Wallace Shawn a situation where one might ritualistically approach death to be reborn, (with much less expense or effort than seen here); and if one is already aware of this idea The Game will offer you little that is new.
Notable for being likely one of the early instances in film where a conspiracy is able to predict not just the behavior of an individual far into the future, but also the circumstances that would allow their secret plan to come to fruition.
Unlike in the Batman or Bond films this, however, might be more forgivable for being even more obviously unreal.
More realistically dealing with a mid-life crisis is Frankenheimer's Seconds, in that change does not come as easily as is shown here.
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, & Deborah Kara Unger.
The first San Francisco set movie we chose to see after our trip I fear suffers upon revisiting.
Once you know how it will end it’s difficult to see suspense develop for characters whose fate you still remember. At most, the revisit highlights details about the character’s relationship to his brother and father (i.e. sibling rivalry & parental suicide issues,) you might have missed or might not remember, and which might possibly justify the trip down the dark Nietzschean tunnel to the light beyond.
A tale not unlike that of Job, where a character loses everything little by little, except that the biblical version cares little for its character’s personal growth.
But was the trip necessary?
Andre Gregory (along with others) had already described Wallace Shawn a situation where one might ritualistically approach death to be reborn, (with much less expense or effort than seen here); and if one is already aware of this idea The Game will offer you little that is new.
Notable for being likely one of the early instances in film where a conspiracy is able to predict not just the behavior of an individual far into the future, but also the circumstances that would allow their secret plan to come to fruition.
Unlike in the Batman or Bond films this, however, might be more forgivable for being even more obviously unreal.
More realistically dealing with a mid-life crisis is Frankenheimer's Seconds, in that change does not come as easily as is shown here.
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, & Deborah Kara Unger.
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