You can often tell a good movie right from the start.
You know how sometimes you see someone and even though they are dressed completely different something inside you says: “That so and so!” and you know it is, and it is, and then perhaps a minute later you question what miniscule details your eyes had caught that had revealed the hidden identity…
Experts will tell you that it is practice.
Some people can look at a couple discussing something or arguing about something and they can tell you, within, less than a minute, less than a few seconds, whether that couple stands a chance of staying together.
Practice fueled by obsession which suddenly reveals a world in the details.
When the movie came on the Portuguese midnight broadcast the details added up and I knew it was worth the watch. The story of a man fueled by an obsession, an obsession rooted in his wife’s death, driven to notice the details which open his eyes to someone suspicious. Jeff Bridges does an excellent job as the driven man while Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack portray an excellent creepy couple…
There are a few instances in the movie where the quality may seem to sag, but I must admit that those are well worth the ending.
and you, what is your obsession? what details are you overly aware of?
