Nice movie.
It had a little theology, a little philosophy, and a little mysticism. Enjoyable.
The impostor's back where he belongs. Let's forget him.share
. . . I love the 3 actors, Anton, Alia, & Zoey - so I tolerated the whole movie even tho' the story sorta dragged - and had too much unecessary stuff.
For example - the scenes with Shane & Ned's car rental girl added nothing to the MOVIE whatsoever -
a few scenes like that could've been left out in order to have other scenes to tell me more about Langella's character Tim, who was much, much more interesting.
While I loved the mystery, mystical, and narration, and the basic good karma-bad karma story, more about Tim woulda been great and probably really enhanced the whole film.
DO you suppose the info was in the novel, and the bloody directors are afraid to bore us by having it in the movie...??
Yet, they don't mind putting in a many other unecessary, go-no-where-add-nothing scenes. . .
I agree with the OP's statement below:
It had a little theology, a little philosophy, and a little mysticism. Enjoyable.
Pierre seemed a bit of a weenie though.when he fell in the well How did he know someone would find and rescue him? The well and water in it was not very deep, the bricks seemed to crumble on a climb out few tries. He had some broken boards and a whole night to chip out holes for a better climbing grip. He had a bachelors degree in something. Maybe he was supposed to represent innocence.
And I agree with you about:
the mystery, mystical, and narration, and the basic good karma-bad karma story, more about Tim woulda been great and probably really enhanced the whole film.
DO you suppose the info was in the novel?
There are 2 or 3 people who have read the book on another thread but they did not mention the Tim character. Maybe the clairvoyant Tim was supposed to represent God the father (the OP mentioned theology) specifically when he told Stella I have been expecting you and see this fire, I made it. Kind of like saying I am the creator and/or let there be light. Keith did look similar to some Jesus photos. But you could say that about any number of men with long brown hair and beards.
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