saw this film today...
A film called Third Star. I went in only knowing the vaguest plotline and that it had Benedict Cumberbatch.
Benedict Cumberbatch character has cancer.
It'll probably make you cry. Or at least a bit teary. It's sad making.
It definitely made me cry. If I'd known it was about cancer I wouldn't have gone to see it. But it was a good film so in a way I'm glad I hadn't known.
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More specific spoilers ahead...
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For me, the film didn't really make me cry until near the very end. But funny bits made me laugh out loud quite a lot whereas bits that were supposed to be highly emotional and sad didn't quite hit that right note. In fact, I didn't particularly like some of the characters, including B. Cumberbatch's character, until near the end.
BUT. I purposefully distanced myself from the film and its characters as soon as I found out it was about cancer. Basically from the start. So I kept thinking about other things and tried not to get too involved in the storyline. And I have to say I heard people crying in the cinema and the friends I went with liked the characters throughout so...
I only really started to get James (Cumberbatch) and feel for him when he started talking about why he wanted to swim to his death and not OD on pills like normal people (asked by Davy played brilliantly by Tom Burke). Because he wanted to feel something until the very end. He wanted to feel the fight.
The whole scene in the ocean was really well done, I think. When the rest of them started swimming after James... Oh.
And then afterwards, after the film ends, you have to think about what's going to happen to the remaining three after this. They have to keep this secret for the rest of their lives and you have to wonder what it will do to them individually and then as a group.
And also, whether the ferry really IS going to come as reguarly as the guy says it does.
After the screening, there was a Q & A session with the writer, Vaughan Sivell, and producer, Kelly Broad. It was really informative and quite cool all around. Both of them were friendly and chatty and interesting. I'm definitely keeping an eye out for their next project... which is called 'Everyone's Going to Die' (or something like that) and it's going to be a comedy.
Oh. AND. Apparently Tom Hardy was attached to this film for a long while although I don't know what role he was set to play. But then he had to leave because of Inception. Which, y'know, YAY! because it was Inception. But it would've been cool to see Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch together again. :)
Conclusion: Go watch, if you can. It's an excellent film. And it's always nice to support independent films. According to Vaughan Sivell, the budget for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 for London tubes (not the UK but just for London tubes) is bigger than what they had to shoot the entire film. So support the underdog!
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Benedict Cumberbatch character has cancer.
It'll probably make you cry. Or at least a bit teary. It's sad making.
It definitely made me cry. If I'd known it was about cancer I wouldn't have gone to see it. But it was a good film so in a way I'm glad I hadn't known.
.
.
.
More specific spoilers ahead...
.
.
.
For me, the film didn't really make me cry until near the very end. But funny bits made me laugh out loud quite a lot whereas bits that were supposed to be highly emotional and sad didn't quite hit that right note. In fact, I didn't particularly like some of the characters, including B. Cumberbatch's character, until near the end.
BUT. I purposefully distanced myself from the film and its characters as soon as I found out it was about cancer. Basically from the start. So I kept thinking about other things and tried not to get too involved in the storyline. And I have to say I heard people crying in the cinema and the friends I went with liked the characters throughout so...
I only really started to get James (Cumberbatch) and feel for him when he started talking about why he wanted to swim to his death and not OD on pills like normal people (asked by Davy played brilliantly by Tom Burke). Because he wanted to feel something until the very end. He wanted to feel the fight.
The whole scene in the ocean was really well done, I think. When the rest of them started swimming after James... Oh.
And then afterwards, after the film ends, you have to think about what's going to happen to the remaining three after this. They have to keep this secret for the rest of their lives and you have to wonder what it will do to them individually and then as a group.
And also, whether the ferry really IS going to come as reguarly as the guy says it does.
After the screening, there was a Q & A session with the writer, Vaughan Sivell, and producer, Kelly Broad. It was really informative and quite cool all around. Both of them were friendly and chatty and interesting. I'm definitely keeping an eye out for their next project... which is called 'Everyone's Going to Die' (or something like that) and it's going to be a comedy.
Oh. AND. Apparently Tom Hardy was attached to this film for a long while although I don't know what role he was set to play. But then he had to leave because of Inception. Which, y'know, YAY! because it was Inception. But it would've been cool to see Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch together again. :)
Conclusion: Go watch, if you can. It's an excellent film. And it's always nice to support independent films. According to Vaughan Sivell, the budget for Pirates of the Caribbean 4 for London tubes (not the UK but just for London tubes) is bigger than what they had to shoot the entire film. So support the underdog!
This entry is also posted at http://tikiaceae.dreamwidth.org/65510.html. Comment wherever. :) (
comments).