With Trance, Danny Boyle finds an ideal vehicle to satisfy his impulses for the superficial. Targeting the Inception bucks, layers of fantasy allow the 127 Hours auteur to let loose his overcooked optical effects with the justification that what we’re seeing might turn out not to be real. A soundtrack littered with, yes, trance music compensates for a likely lack of excitement, but McAvoy is a solid presence – sneaking a grin toward the camera from time to time to acknowledge the silliness of the film’s maniacal plot. A good thing – if it took itself seriously it would fall apart, a loose string of ideas borrowed from better films by better filmmakers.
It’s an enjoyable flick but it won’t stay with you – unless you succumbed to the awfulness of Inception‘s ending, here cloned in the form of an iPad (which is fast becoming a motif in its presence alone, an icon of materialism reflecting a lack of real-world creativity). Better to stay at home with a copy of The Game.
Wait, that’s out already? Jesus, I’m behind the times.
Preview screening. Out Wednesday here, a week Friday US.
Totally not reading this till ive seen it 😛
It’s not limited release, is it?
IMDB says limited
IMDB says limited
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU- I should think that my one mega mall multiplex would have it, but it didn’t have Stoker so who knows? It’s anarchy, I tell you!
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU- I should think that my one mega mall multiplex would have it, but it didn’t have Stoker so who knows? It’s anarchy, I tell you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj3VphK9AMk
Sounds like it’s the worst best case scenario of what I expected from this movie. But the question is: Did I win?
If I was a man of my word, I would concede that it wasn’t a bad film and that I would thus continue watching Danny Boyle films, yes. But fuck being a man of my word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1PYp-fsZOA
Weak!