This is a poll of sorts but it would probably be moved here to Cafe Society anyway so I’ve saved the mods the trouble and put it here.
I am watching Fight Club. Knowning the twist of the story I find myself asking a lot of mental questions throughout the film. For example…
When Ed Norton’s character (doesn’t seem to have a name. Listed as ‘narrator’ is on the phone to the investigator of his appartment fire, and Tyler is behind him saying things about materialism. Is it actually Ed saying those things into the phone? Is this therefore why the investigator is saying things like “this is a serious matter”
What films naturally raise lots of questions relevant to the plot? What film do you think tops the list (is likely to raise the most questions)
[ul]Why does he get only one result when he searches the Internet for “job”?
Why does he type out an email over and over, rather than cutting and pasting, or, Odin forfend, putting multiple addresses into the BCC: line?
Why does the IM Force use some kind of crappy AOL knockoff for their mail service?
[/ul]And most of all…
[ul]Why on Earth am I watching this :smack: craptacular piece of :smack: crappy :smack: crapness instead of doing something worthwhile? :smack:
[/ul]…over and over and over again
Note that this is my personal “what the hey?” movie. Most movies that have been/will be mentioned in this thread I either don’t care about or I think have it figured out.
Basic Instinct. What was Beth’s story? What did she do and why? I really don’t care about Sharon Stone’s character, but to me Beth is a big mystery.
And a note: Please don’t try to explain it to me. This is one of those “someday I want to figure it out for myself” things. If you ever met a real life “Beth”, you’d understand why.
I’ll second the vote for JFK. If ever there were a movie made up entirely of questions, that’s it. As Joe Pesci’s character said (quoting Churchill I believe), “It’s a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma!!”
A good runner-up would be Mullholland Drive, but it gets a few points deducted because I’m convinced even David Lynch had no idea what the hell was going on.
I would have voted for Mulholland Drive as well, but I do see Winston Bongo’s point.
Stephen King’s IT leaves an awful lot unexplained, though the explanation in the book isn’t exactly what you’d call radio-friendly.
Truman’s World raised some neat questions of an entirely different sort. The concept was hardly philosophically innovative, but the ‘TV show’ idea was fairly novel.
The Usual Suspects presents to the audience few answers about [spoiler] what is real, what is a lie, and what is in between. Also, VERBAL IS KEYSER SOZE! How about that? And they kill everyone and there is no cocaine on the boat. And also, Verbal/KEYSER gets away from Cujan in the end, and KOBAYASHI PICKS HIM UP, and he’s NOT CRIPPLED, really in real life.
(takes a deep breath)
Er, yes. Um, first time using these tags and I may well have gotten carried away.[/spoiler]
Re Mission Impossible, I agree, I thought that was pretty awful of them to do, and made absolutely, no ****ing sense given the MI canon of the television series. It was almost like they were looking for an excuse to be sensational by shitting on the MI history.
