Trying to keep to my promise of putting reviews in.<\/p>\n
Watched ‘Mulholland Falls’. Great cast. Good cinematography. Mediocre film.<\/p>\n
Late addition: in the middle of the night it struck me that there was a structural parallel embedded in the film. (Spoiler coming….) The film begins with Nick Nolte throwing a crook down a cliff face – ‘righteous’ violence, good guys throwing bad guys for a Mulholland Fall. Yet the main pursuit of the film is the pursuit of ‘bad guys’ who threw a woman out of a plane, for threatening national security, I thought there might be some point to this – ie that the Nolte character might recognise the sickness of righteous violence within himself, and see the bad guys as reflections of himself, and that he might thereby grow, become a better person, blah blah blah.<\/p>\n
But then I remembered that it ends with Nolte again throwing bad guys for a fall – this time throwing the killers out of the same plane. So whilst there was a structural parallel, it wasn’t serving any point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trying to keep to my promise of putting reviews in. Watched ‘Mulholland Falls’. Great cast. Good cinematography. Mediocre film. Late addition: in the middle of the night it struck me that there was a structural parallel embedded in the film. … Continue reading