Anthony Hopkins, known for his work in some scarey freaky films, wrote the screenplay, directed the film, and worked as an actor in the film, so I had to see this.
Slipstream was edited with disturbing breaks and rapid images. OK, I had trouble following the story and maybe that has something to do with the fact that I have never watched reality television and love long periods of deep concentration.
So I read the back of the DVD package to get a clue, and then realized "OH, OK this is a story about a screenwriter (could be any writer) who begins to live in his script/ the world he has created, so much so that he looses his sense of reality.
A viewer really had to pay attention and pick up clues quickly. I apparently was unable to do this. Yet, I understood what was intended and realized that Anthony Hopkins had effectively conveyed to the viewer exactly what it was he wanted to! In this case the DVD package wasn't lying when it said "Soon, he is thrown into a vortex where dreams, time, and reality collide in an increasingly whirling slipsteam.
Let me explain that early on a female character does define "slipstream" for the viewer, and so I thought this had something to do with reincarnation, which is a subject I've long been very fascinated with. However, there was nothing I was cognitive of while watching that seemed to be about past lives. Perhaps what was being suggested was instead the phenomena of Deja Vu, the feeling that you have been to a place or scene before, which some people attribute to past life memories.
This film also left me with a temporary depression.
As a result, I didn't give it a second go to try and figure it all out.
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
1/26/13
1/23/13
THE DEAL : CHRISTINE TRZYNA FILM REVIEW
One of the things I enjoy is watching a DVD and THEN reading the synopsis on the back of the case, the marketing.
Do I even agree with what that paragraph or two (propaganda) has to say?
For instance on the back of this film's case in big letters it says "SIDE-SPLITTINGLY FUNNY" and "TWO PEOPLE HAVE NEVER BEEN SO WRONG FOR EACH OTHER."
OK, I was amused at parts but my sides never split and also I did not think this was a love story.
If I had written the synopsis, I would say that this is a humorous but not so exaggerated story about how a film is made, starting with the screenplay. I loved the character of Charlie Berns as acted by William H. Macy, who in real life had his hand in this screenplay by way of his real life nephew who wrote it.
If you've spent any time at all with your laptop in a coffee house among screen writers (even when you are not a screenwriter), if you have ever walked down restaurant row on Magnolia where the Screen Writers are getting together with the People, you know that this story could very well be TRUE!
Character Berns seems to have experienced or heard about every last reality of getting a screenplay to production, and so he quickly puts into their places anyone who has any altruistic ideas.
The closest to my side getting split was when the Diedra Hern character as acted by Meg Ryan to be a unshakable studio exec who has been put on the case to keep after the screenwriter so that he delivers, goes to visit Charlie Berns at his home, which is an apartment building with one of those San Fernando Valley decayed buildings that has not only cracks in the cement and a broken pool empty of water but a dead tree in it.
Sadly this is how too many screenwriters actually live in the San Fernando Valley, when they aren't in coffee houses on Ventura or restaurant row on Magnolia writing or pitching or explaining what it is they meant to do with the story to the People.
Don't ask me how I know!
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
Do I even agree with what that paragraph or two (propaganda) has to say?
For instance on the back of this film's case in big letters it says "SIDE-SPLITTINGLY FUNNY" and "TWO PEOPLE HAVE NEVER BEEN SO WRONG FOR EACH OTHER."
OK, I was amused at parts but my sides never split and also I did not think this was a love story.
If I had written the synopsis, I would say that this is a humorous but not so exaggerated story about how a film is made, starting with the screenplay. I loved the character of Charlie Berns as acted by William H. Macy, who in real life had his hand in this screenplay by way of his real life nephew who wrote it.
If you've spent any time at all with your laptop in a coffee house among screen writers (even when you are not a screenwriter), if you have ever walked down restaurant row on Magnolia where the Screen Writers are getting together with the People, you know that this story could very well be TRUE!
Character Berns seems to have experienced or heard about every last reality of getting a screenplay to production, and so he quickly puts into their places anyone who has any altruistic ideas.
The closest to my side getting split was when the Diedra Hern character as acted by Meg Ryan to be a unshakable studio exec who has been put on the case to keep after the screenwriter so that he delivers, goes to visit Charlie Berns at his home, which is an apartment building with one of those San Fernando Valley decayed buildings that has not only cracks in the cement and a broken pool empty of water but a dead tree in it.
Sadly this is how too many screenwriters actually live in the San Fernando Valley, when they aren't in coffee houses on Ventura or restaurant row on Magnolia writing or pitching or explaining what it is they meant to do with the story to the People.
Don't ask me how I know!
C 2013 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved
1/18/13
1/15/13
WORDS BANNED IN 2013? HMM THERE ARE SOMETHINGS PEOPLE (STILL) SAY THAT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A TURN OFF!
UNIVERSITY BANISHES WORDS FOR 2013 by Thom Patterson article link!
trending, spoiler alert, bucket list, superfood, guru, job creators, yolo (see article for explanations).
Personally, I never could stand and cannot stand it when someone ends a conversation rudely by saying "Thank You For Sharing." I also hate it when someone says "hello!" or "hello?" and they aren't on the phone. Any phrase used by a television character, who is supposed to be smart ass funny, doesn't work on me.
trending, spoiler alert, bucket list, superfood, guru, job creators, yolo (see article for explanations).
Personally, I never could stand and cannot stand it when someone ends a conversation rudely by saying "Thank You For Sharing." I also hate it when someone says "hello!" or "hello?" and they aren't on the phone. Any phrase used by a television character, who is supposed to be smart ass funny, doesn't work on me.
1/14/13
100 FREE THINGS TO DO IN LOS ANGELES ( I KNOW THERE ARE MORE!)
DISCOVER LA link to the free things to do.
1/12/13
PENNY MARSHALL Quotation
... "On stage you have to tie up the loose ends neatly and send the audience home with a resolution they like. In real life, as was evident, that's not easy. I was familiar with indecision. My life was like a play in the midst of a rewrite. But was that bad? I didn't think so." ... - Penny Marshall
From "My Mother was Nuts", a memoir by Penny Marshall C 2012, new harvest Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt publishers, which I read and considered light reading over the holidays, even though Penny covered some heavy topics in her humorously matter of fact way of seeing life.
From "My Mother was Nuts", a memoir by Penny Marshall C 2012, new harvest Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt publishers, which I read and considered light reading over the holidays, even though Penny covered some heavy topics in her humorously matter of fact way of seeing life.
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