Unnatural & Accidental Meta (essay)
Timelines, Rita, and who the hell is Aunt Shadie? Making sense of Unnatural & Accidental.
Also known as: a big mess of my thoughts jumbled up on the page, adding up to 2800 words.
Spoilery, of course.
( In which I go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. )
Also known as: a big mess of my thoughts jumbled up on the page, adding up to 2800 words.
Spoilery, of course.
( In which I go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. )
I'm pretty darn literal and have a terribly hard time with how the movie makes gestures at the formula (this is the scene where she discovers a murder scene and figures out what happened), but fails to fulfill the conventions. A horrifying flashback and Carmen Moore making guppy face does not a revelatory scene make!
And yes about the ending. I know it's maybe just a little bit unfair to go looking for some big answer to The State of First Nations-ness in Canada Now and Future in the end of this one film, but it does seem to set up the characters as more then just themselves, and the victims as going to a very idealized, soft-focus place, and I just scratch and scratch my head. Something about life going on and surviving and what victory looks like when it doesn't look like flashy headlines and shiny, capital J Justice. Maybe.
Oh, the stuff what is bad. The trees, the talking pictures. It's so frustrating to me that those elements seem to be so very heartfelt, you know? Like, if you cut the incoherence and the surrealism, you'd have a much more ordinary, formulaic (coherent, less mockable) film, and they didn't make that film for a reason. But, but, but, that stuff sucks! And, yes, I Do Not Want to giggle and sneer at this movie, so it should not tempt me.
But okay, you got me here. I guess I will have to watch it again. /c\
Damn U&A and it's freakishly involving ways.
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