Burning Man
DVD - 2012
Tom Keaton, a suave chef, meets and marries the beautiful Sarah and soon becomes a proud father. But when tragedy strikes, Tom is unable to cope and turns to a succession of sexual encounters with an array of women while neglecting his family and losing his grip at work. Tom must work to put his career and his relationship with his son back together in spite of his vice.
Publisher:
New York, NY : IFC Films : MPI Media Group, [2012]
Edition:
Widescreen.
Copyright Date:
©2012
ISBN:
9780788616143
0788616145
0788616145
Branch Call Number:
MOVIE BURNING
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Add a CommentThis wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen, it is far from being good. I fast forwarded a lot but not all the way.
Nice imagery. Reminded me of Memento, the way it goes back and forth in time.
Turned it off after the first scene,yuck...
As an earlier viewer noted, the film has a narrative that is non-linear much of the time, forcing its audience to figure out the order of events from a dizzying series of out-of-sequence scenes. The fact that its protagonist displaces his unexpressed grief into boorish behaviour (making him often unlikeable) does not help. Perhaps the director realized he had a fairly mundane story with an unsympathetic central character and decided to assemble it achronologically to try to inject a sense of pace. I did like Louie the Lobster though.
During the first half of the movie, the director cuts back anfd forth between the past and present in no real discerable pattern and far too quickly making the film very confusing. Then, for the second half of the movie this cutting back and forth continues but with more time between cuts making the film a bit more understandable but still confusing since it is difficult to piece the story together. I'm still not quite sure where certain pieces of the story fit in the film.
The out-of-order sequencing of this film makes it confusing.