Great movie
Great stories
Great cast
But it starts out with three urban legends and talks about coincidences. I’m expecting the What The Fuck! sort of twists and interleaving lives and get . . .
nothing
absolutely nothing
A producer of a TV show (think Merv Griffin proportions) has cancer and so does on of the guys in his show. That’s a coincidence? My mom has five siblings and two have died - both of LUNG cancer. Two out of five is a coincidence while two out of 50? 500? That’s the law of large numbers.
Two whiz kids have asshole parents. I used to teach honors. Two whiz kids who parents were NOT assholes would have been treading in the coincidence waters.
Hell the only thing close to a WTF coincidence is the dog dying on the same day as the owner (of course we all know why) or that they are all singing “Save Me” at the same time.
What am I missing in the Holy Fuck! :eek: I can’t believe that! angle that apparently this movie was chock full of?
It’s not about coincidences its about connections.
Yeah, you don’t need to be looking for twist-endings or unbelievable coincidences, just the underlying thread that connects every character in the film. Every single person in the movie is connected to the guy who is dying of cancer.
Then why the opening vignettes? It seems to me that they are completely unnecessary or replaced with stories of people that made seeming insignificant choices that drastically affected theirs and/or others’ lives. That would be more fitting with the stories.
It has been a long time since I’ve seen the movie, but they used the UL about the guy who was shot on his down the building and the guy who ended up dumped on a wildfire, right?
They did make seemingly insignificant decisions. The woman who shot the boy as he fell couldn’t have known that somebody would be speeding by her window at that time. And the swimmer probably did that sort of thing all the time. They made the insignificant decisions to live their lives as they probably always lived them, except one horrible, unaccountable thing happened and violently disrupted that.
And everybody in the movie was still living their lives as they always lived it. The girl doing coke was a girl who did coke, whether or not the cop was hanging around her apartment or not. Tom Cruise was a guy who gave self-serving interviews whether is father was dying or not. Etc etc.
But again, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the film. i could be totally off base.