Refreshing film-making

Rating: 8/10 (7 October 2007)

I'm very glad I watched this film. A little high-brow for me, I thought but no, it was engrossing from beginning to end. The story unfolded really well and it didn't pull any punches along the way. What I really liked was the way the dialogue was delivered so 'naturally'. It was really noticeable that the actors 'fluffed' their lines on more than one occasion and in any other film, these scenes would have been re-shot but these faux pas were left in and the film is all the better for it. I've never seen that done in any other film. It makes it true to life. How many of us speak eloquently 100% of the time, getting every sentence uttered in a word-perfect fashion? None of us, so why do they do this in films? It makes me look at films I've watched since in a different way, thinking much more about how many takes a particularly tricky piece of dialogue took to get right. Good stuff!