Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

ayeshabrown The low rating of this film come from the people who do not properly understand the many interpretations of it. Haggis presents a writer who is struggling to deal with the death of his infant son. He begins composing a story focusing on the characters circumstance (example: James Franco's character being a rich artist, The american guy being a spy etc) to distance himself from it. But as the film goes on the audience is again again questioning is this real? Due to the seemingly non-existent connection to the set of characters we are led to believe they are connected by just a piece of paper. However at the end when Liam Neeson is chasing after Oliva Wilde and she becomes the other characters we realise that Liam's character has created this to help him cope. Trust is a theme throughout, that is again and again touched upon but rounds up to at the end as being the colour white. Wilde's white dress, the milk the end, the flowers. In my opinion, Liam Neeson's character Michael sets himself up in different scenarios to safely explore what is would be like if a) he had cheated but his child hadn't died. b) He tried to forgive himself resulting in him losing everything. All in all it was a great movie up for interpretation, I particularly enjoyed the explosive relationship between Micheal and Anna.

stock-1 A Pulitzer price winner spends 1000 Euro's a day in a Paris Hotel suite to write a novel which is actually a biographic diary of a women who has a ongoing sexual relationship with her father. The movie director received around $30 million to complete the movie with its stellar cast (Kim Bassinger and Liam Neeson amongst others). After a long sit through of 2 hours and 10 minutes I decided to send a two week notice to the funding corporation Corsan, warning that after watching Third Person, the viewer can only judge this movie as a veiled attempt to slush millions of dollars into shady bank accounts of Unknown Persons. The end result can only be seen as a loutish expose of rats on a Euro carnage spending spree, both inside and outside the movie. The entire cast and film crew of course were staying in the same hotel as Liam Neeson, where a routine day of shooting could be witnessed on the top floor with the rolling of the main camera on wheels from the Director's hotel room into Mr. Neeson's hotel suite.

Mari - I loved the plot and also the actings, and I truly don't understand the low reviews. I mean, of course it is not an easy film to watch, sometimes it fails to keep your attentions because it does develop slowly and most parts you don't get it right away... But it is a great movie, intelligent and with amazing actings. I confess I didn't get all the points right away and had to do a little research afterwards, but when I got it all, the story became even more beautiful. I gathered some of those points I found important to understand to be able to evaluate the movie properly, so if you don't want spoilers DON'T READ BELOW HERE.*******SPOILER ALERT*******1. The writer was NOT in Paris writing his book; he was in Rome. Maybe some people missed this detail (as I did), but when his wife calls him, in the final scene, she asks him, "How's Rome?". And also you can clearly see he's sitting in a café in an Italian city. 2. Everything that happens between the starting scene, when he hears his son's voice on the hotel room "Watch me," and the same voice "Watch me" in the final scene of the film, is part of his book -- including the story about the writer in Paris with his lover. Probably his mistress name was not Anna, and we can notice that she is fictional by how idealized (at least partially) she is: young, pretty, and with sense of humour, and perfect.* Remember that he always writes in Third Person (not by chance, the name of the movie).** Perhaps Paris did happen, but not during that time space we are watching the movie. Maybe months ago... Note that his wife calls him twice and both times she asks: "Is she there?", and he always answers "No" -- in the final scene, he still adds "She left me two months ago".*** Note the references to white in each story: Anna's dress in the final scene is white, the glass of milk the child gives his father is white, and the car in which the American drives away with the gypsy lady is also white. "White the color of trust. And the color of the lies he tells himself" -- says the end of the book.3. As he atones for his sins through the characters from his book, we know what really happened going from there:In real life, he loses his lover when she learns that it was because of her call that his son drowned; in Paris' story, his mistress ("the only true love of his life") comes back to him.In real life, he loses his son; in Italy's story, the American saves the gypsy lady's daughter (note that inside the car they look back and smile, and as the camera goes away you can see the silhouette of a child in the back seat of the white car).In real life, he never wins back the trust of his ex-wife; in the story with Mila Kunis, James Franco trusts her again after the incident in the elevator. * Also note the references to bad fathers in each story:In Italy, the American also lost his son.In New York, the boy's father is absent and always working, and they do not have a close relationship.In Paris, the father used to abuse of Anna, probably since she was a child.

SnoopyStyle Writer Michael (Liam Neeson) left his wife Elaine (Kim Basinger) and is living in a hotel having an affair with society reporter Anna (Olivia Wilde) who wants his help to write her novel. Former soap star Julia (Mila Kunis) gets a hotel maid job so that she can get visitation rights to her son with her lawyer Theresa Lowry (Maria Bello) and her ex Richard Weiss (James Franco). In Italy, businessman Scott (Adrien Brody) is getting entangled with illegal Monika (Moran Atias) and her young daughter. The three stories intertwine.Paul Haggis does his interconnected stories again. I like this idea slightly more than Crash. At least, this one isn't trying to preach something obvious. He's not hitting the audience over the head with some kind of social commentary. Neeson and Wilde have a little bit of fun. I find Kunis' character compelling. On the other hand, I hate Brody's story. It starts with the ridiculous bomb scare. The comedy bit about a shoe bomb just makes it so much worse. The hotel clerk discriminating against her is another bad step. A villain would take the money before asking for more. No bad guy would let somebody walk out with the cash. That whole story seems to be a farce. I can't stand Brody's story and the extended running time doesn't help.