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Boy Meets Girl (1994)
Terrible!
Excuse me, but some of the previous reviewers have lost the plot totally here. I watched this film with an open mind expecting somewhat more than was delivered. NO, this film is not provocative, disturbing, well-acted, shocking, "artsy", or in any way entertaining.
*spoilers follow* - what do we actually have here? Well a movie were obviously the main actress had had enough and made the perfect choice to abandon this film half way through. We have a man meet a girl in a bar. Then, in her appartment, he is drugged and subjected to some ridiculous torture and killed. And that's it, (if someone can point me in a more formulaic structure to this movie then I would be truly obliged). Because I saw nothing more in it than this.
The acting is appalling (especially from the lead actor). As I said the "torturer" changes half way through - and this is when it starts to get really bad. Did I feel disturbed by any of the scenes shown? No. If the director/producer/writer/make-up girl/best grip had in anyway meant this then they have some serious learning to do about shock, and I'd suggest some real research. I'll forgive them the year of making - 1994 and their possible naivety, but come on - I was more shocked by the "squeal pig" scene in The Deliverance than any of this nonsense.
Avoid this film: it's cheap, nasty, not shocking, terribly acted....oh yeah he dies in the end , and umm so what I don't give a s**t either as I wanted him to from the beginning anyway.
Baaaaad 0/10
DarkWolf (2003)
Extremes
This is only the second time I've felt compelled enough to comment at imdb about a film. The first time was for probably the best movie I've ever seen and that was for Memento.
Seeing Darkwolf is at the other end of the scale compared to Memento, as in the worst film I've had the misfortune to see. Apart from the two scenes containing naked women there is nothing in this movie to raise it from the trash-pile that it is.
Let's see, apalling effects, cliched script, bad acting and about 90 minutes too long. My wife and I laughed through most of it in disbelief at how bad. Amazingly I watched it to the end, how I did that I don't know! AVOID!!!
Memento (2000)
Why so complicated? *SPoilers*
I've just watched Memento and was amazed that such superb films can still be made these days in comparison to the mass-media crap that has been the norm for way too many years now. I'd certainly put it on a par with 12 Monkeys and The Sixth Sense in terms of a film made to invoke audience intelligence.
Actually my wife and I watched it flabberghasted at the detail and puzzle of each moment as it unfolded. Each trying to answer the final answer as the film ran it's course.
Since watching it, I availed myself of the many sites dedicated to unfolding the mysteries within the movie. At first I was unclear to the conjecture and *myths" within the confounds of a basically simple film. Then as I was drawn into the numerous (and often) quirky and deep reverential references made (or supposed) and found myself drawn into the ideas based on much effort and imagination based on investigation unequalled for a movie as this.
In fact I read so much as to the unanswered (and guessed at) in this movie that it spoilt my initial enjoyment - and came to this simple conclusion: Leonard cannot cope with life without the impetus to find his wife's killer at all costs. It is this simple emotion that drives him and keeps him alive. Without it he has no reason to live. The STM leads only to the next time he has to chase his next "victim". Without this reason to find his wife's killer he may well as be dead. That's why when he gives "himself" information about Teddy at the "start" of the film, with the numberplate, he leaves himself another time-period to find his wife's killer again. How many times this has happened? But does it matter, because this film is a snapshot of a few days of Leonards life - what happened before who knows (apart from being coerced by a bent cop) and after - whatever?
This mans whole life is driven by love. A love for a dead wife, who's rapist and murderer he must seek to destroy to keep his own life.
NO he is not Sammmy. STM is very rare to this extent and I feel this focus is to reinforce Leonard's own mental state.
I liked this film a lot. So much so I've given a few lines on this website - something I've never felt driven to before. But I implore anyone who watches this. Just watch and enjoy, don't try to look too deeply.
Kj