always said I don't believe in coincidences except when I do...
...and this had just one coindience piled on top of another and then another.
2:48 AM 12/12/09 · I'm going to try and keep this brief and I may likely fail but I'm going to try and review this without giving too much away and that may not be possible. Franklyn is hands down the most fitting film to the category 'mindfuck' I've come across in a long time!
I think the problem I had working it out, though I doubt it, was due to the fact that I read the description on the back of the box. It states that this movie takes place in London and the futuristic Meanwhile City. It was due to that, and that it also said they existed in parallel dimensions, that from the very beginning I was trying to work out exactly how the disparate parts of the storylines connected.
May have hurt myself in the process.
London is pretty much just that, London. Meanwhile City is a not necessarily futuristic world so much as it is a twisted one. Tech is different but doesn't seem so very much more advanced. It is a world where everyone is forced to have a religion, so much so that some of them are really odd and not all that inspired, or they are breaking the law. As with many parallel Earths there are people that exist in both worlds that are near identical to their counterparts in the other.
There are 3 principle main characters from the beginning of this, and then a 4th tossed in near but not quite close to the middle.
1) A young man who is very off balance. He was due to be married but his fiance killed the event at the last minute and he's not quite been right ever since. He is pre·occupied with the memories of a girl he knew when he was very much younger and believes she has once again stumbled into his life.
2) A filmography student overly obsessed with the tragedy that is her life. Suicidal and more gothic than the darkest of goths, she doesn't know where to go or what to do other than continue on with this movie she is making for her film class...even if it costs her own life in the process.
3) A vigilante with no faith, stuck in a world where he must have one. His all abiding goal is the vengeance of a lost child who died at the hands of an ultimate evil that he alone can kill. He's a lot like Rorschach (spelling) from The Watchmen, both not and even moreso if that's possible.
Keeping this to numbers to simplify: 1 & 2 are both living in London, 3 is a citizen of Meanwhile City. The problem with how their stories develop, with clearly no connection between any of them, and my knowing there absolute has to be one, I was tossing theories out all the way thru. It's a good film on its own so you don't really need to know how it will all turn out...but I'm very obsessed with over·analysis for this kinda stuff. I kept trying to work out how one would cross over from one reality to the next, if maybe they were existing not so much just in different worlds as different times, and still making sense of the various parts on their own.
1, 2, & 3 are mundane, dereanged, and insane and yet there had to be a connection.
What ultimately happens is far less fantastic then what I had been led to believe...for a few minutes and then it strangely became even more fantastic than I had previously thought.
Quite a fun ride. Franklyn is most definitely worth seeing.
2:48 AM 12/12/09 · I'm going to try and keep this brief and I may likely fail but I'm going to try and review this without giving too much away and that may not be possible. Franklyn is hands down the most fitting film to the category 'mindfuck' I've come across in a long time!
I think the problem I had working it out, though I doubt it, was due to the fact that I read the description on the back of the box. It states that this movie takes place in London and the futuristic Meanwhile City. It was due to that, and that it also said they existed in parallel dimensions, that from the very beginning I was trying to work out exactly how the disparate parts of the storylines connected.
May have hurt myself in the process.
London is pretty much just that, London. Meanwhile City is a not necessarily futuristic world so much as it is a twisted one. Tech is different but doesn't seem so very much more advanced. It is a world where everyone is forced to have a religion, so much so that some of them are really odd and not all that inspired, or they are breaking the law. As with many parallel Earths there are people that exist in both worlds that are near identical to their counterparts in the other.
There are 3 principle main characters from the beginning of this, and then a 4th tossed in near but not quite close to the middle.
1) A young man who is very off balance. He was due to be married but his fiance killed the event at the last minute and he's not quite been right ever since. He is pre·occupied with the memories of a girl he knew when he was very much younger and believes she has once again stumbled into his life.
2) A filmography student overly obsessed with the tragedy that is her life. Suicidal and more gothic than the darkest of goths, she doesn't know where to go or what to do other than continue on with this movie she is making for her film class...even if it costs her own life in the process.
3) A vigilante with no faith, stuck in a world where he must have one. His all abiding goal is the vengeance of a lost child who died at the hands of an ultimate evil that he alone can kill. He's a lot like Rorschach (spelling) from The Watchmen, both not and even moreso if that's possible.
Keeping this to numbers to simplify: 1 & 2 are both living in London, 3 is a citizen of Meanwhile City. The problem with how their stories develop, with clearly no connection between any of them, and my knowing there absolute has to be one, I was tossing theories out all the way thru. It's a good film on its own so you don't really need to know how it will all turn out...but I'm very obsessed with over·analysis for this kinda stuff. I kept trying to work out how one would cross over from one reality to the next, if maybe they were existing not so much just in different worlds as different times, and still making sense of the various parts on their own.
1, 2, & 3 are mundane, dereanged, and insane and yet there had to be a connection.
What ultimately happens is far less fantastic then what I had been led to believe...for a few minutes and then it strangely became even more fantastic than I had previously thought.
Quite a fun ride. Franklyn is most definitely worth seeing.