Richard Matheson is one of those writers who could do a half-page story about a hen HIV beating the pavements of downtown, still managing to tell a compelling story that leaves room for the right socio-existential reflections. Just think of books like I Am Legend , or the story Button button, which was taken from this film.
When I heard about the work of this project I could not help but wonder how caspiterina would have to take a little ten-page story and unique setting of the two protagonists in the home movie medium length. Knowing that Richard Kelly is the director would cure that the script made me even more perplexed to learn that Manuel Filiberto would sing in Sanremo.
All in all, I can say at the end vision vaguely satisfied. But first things first.
The initial plot of the story is kept in a large scale. A strange individual (monolithic Frank Langella), a box spouses Lewis (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden). It contains a button. If you press it a person they do not know will die, but they will receive one million dollars in cash. If you do not do anything, they will receive one hundred dollars for the trouble, and the box of the title will be withdrawn, reprogrammed and given to another couple.
From a starting point so Kelly could repeat the success (artistic and critical) of its onset, or at least make a good sci-fi thriller that offers an intriguing 115 minutes of healthy and joyful entertainment. But no. While not to run in total disaster as Southland Tales , moves more than a dangerous misstep. He had to twist everything up with an unlikely and almost unbelievably ridiculous alien plan that seems to mimic the project for the improvement of human Neon Genesis Evangelion , whims existential unsolicited and totally unnecessary to the story dealt with very surface and travel in time (frankly, that sucks! A favorite moment a battle between vampires and werewolves).
Despite all the film is watchable, but all these details leave a lot of amazement. I wonder how it would come out 'I'm the film, if Kelly had dignity than simply tell, and not to be an artist constantly in search of a way to amaze. A film (as well as a book, a comic book or a song) does not have to be innovative at all costs. Even the simple task of mere entertainment, at times, can give you some pleasant surprises, in addition to being artistically well executed.
As said before I did my colleague Gantz, director Kelly is not the bud, but as regards the slope of the script, it should rely on others, whether it will continue on this path.
PS: Button button the story was published for the first time in the pages of Playboy magazine , almanac that the writer / director Kelly - on his own admission - at that time did not 'read' of course for the stories. I wonder what would come out if Kelly had decided to shoot a porno XD
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