suspension of disbelief

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2005)

suspension of disbelief, for better or worse, is often easier to achieve with the "big lies" than with the little ones. for instance, watching "x-men," i have no trouble accepting that there's a guy with knives sticking out of his knuckles, or a guy that can shoot red laserbeams out of his eyeballs. there's no real-life comparison for such things, and that's precisely the point, i think: it doesn't happen in real life, but since i have no frame of reference for such things, if you make it look halfway believable, i'll buy it.
but when it comes to the little things, the things we all do every day, it's trickier. take. . .talking, for instance. the pervasive and incessant verbal fencing that permeates this movie is impossible to ignore, and because you can't ignore it, you also can't believe it. there's no dead spots in the dialogue, no question for which the character being asked doesn't have an easy answer. what we have here is not a script, but rather an essay on loneliness and abandonment, masquerading as a movie script. such expansive verbage and repartee worked for, say, Shakespeare (usually), but if fails here.
"she has the moronic beauty of youth, but she's sly" this probably looked really good on the page. on the screen, it's moronic and weak. these aren't real people, they are mouthpieces for the didactic message written in such large, flashing letters all across the story.
what i'm trying to say is, i didn't like it.