So I just watched this trailer for
a new Daniel Radcliff movie on Youtube called the Swiss Army Man.
Warning! The
movie is R rated, so you may or may not want to see what’s here. But it does
look like a good movie.
After watching
this trailer, I want to watch this movie, and I’m not sure why. Why would
anyone be interested in a movie about a guy who befriends a talking, flatulent corpse
on a desert island? Then I realized that this shows a lot about how we think
today. The media fed to me modified my mind to this, and that probably made me
interested in this movie, while some might not be so interested.
I
got interested in this movie not for the talking corpse, but for the unusual friendship
that was made. Back in the elementary school days, the teachers talked a lot
about friendship, so that was where my interest in that came from. Another interest
in this film was the kind of creative problem solving done. My parents let me
watch various movies with the stranded-on-the-island plot, and I enjoyed the
creativity in problem solving. Finally, i liked that I could relate to the
corpse. Not for that he was dead, but
that he didn’t know anything about society. I was antisocial for the first
decade of my life, so that makes me relatable.
So
its uncommon for someone to like the trailer the exact same ways as me. But it
will vary person to person whether they like it or not. It will also vary why
they like/dislike it. I am interested in varying reasons why you like or
dislike the trailer. Anyways, thank you.
I'll admit - that trailer made me curious. The thing that stands out the most to me is that I want to see whether the main character survives or not. I can think of a lot of movies that are popular because we root for the protagonist to survive (The Martian, Life of Pi, 127 Hours, etc.). Our culture seems to emphasize rooting for the underdog. I'm also curious to see how Daniel Radcliffe pulls off playing a dead guy for a feature-length movie. Oscar for Actor of the Year?
ReplyDeleteI'm very curious for this movie. Its concept is very creative and there is a lot of potential to place in a plethora of "out there" ideas. Having watched this trailer, my bar is set pretty high, but I feel like the filmmakers will go the route where the main character was dead the whole time, from when he first tried to hang himself.
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