Alps (Lanthimos)

[transmogrifier]

Haha, no. No way I'm doing that. Most movies are massive timesinks to being with. If the moviemakers are so inept that they can't articulate a premise, I'm not going to burn 2 hours "just to see."

I still don't get this. The premise is pretty simple: relatives hire people to stand-in for recently deceased people. That is as clear as day. As for WHY they do this, don't you think it is the job of the actual film to articulate this?

Sounds like you'd be better off just reading the Wikipedia page of a movie and leaving at that.

Synopsis: Inception is about people who can go into the dreams of others and implant ideas. Irish: But why? Why can't they just talk to them? Stupid movie.

Synopsis: Oldboy is about a guy who is locked up in a room for 15 years who gets out and seeks revenge. Irish: But why? Why lock him in a room? Surely that must be hard to maintain. Stupid movie.

Synopsis: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is about people who have the memories of past relationships wiped. Irish: But why? Wouldn't they wonder why there were gaps in their memories? What if they ran into each other again? Stupid movie.

And so on....

[Irish]

I understand what you're getting at, trans, but notice that every movie you cited has a one sentence synopsis with some kind of real world corollary. Even if the details are vague, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and amnesia are all readily understandable (and identifiable!) subjects for a movie.

With Alps, the synopsis literally trails off into an ellipsis, and what's there is not even half a movie and something that has no corollary in western culture and doesn't make sense at face value.

Hence my original "WTF?"

[Ezee E]

Aye yi yi.

Okay, here's essentially what I think is occurring. It's called, Ghosting. The idea is to use that dead person's identity for a credit rating, social security, information, whatever...

Some examples of this are pretty well known actually. Donald Draper in Mad Men is posing as someone that's already dead.

[DavidSeven]

Maybe these people just want closure. Sometimes you guys make this shit more complicated than it needs to be.

[Boner M]

Sometimes Irish just likes to see an unlikely thread reach 2 pages shortly after its creation.

[Pop Trash]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

[Dukefrukem]

I don't know. It sounds like a pretty surreal premise, so the fact that you guys are applying such strict real life logic to it is kinda baffling to me.

[Spinal]

Did I just log into IMDb by mistake? Hmmmm.

[Irish]

Did I just log into IMDb by mistake? Hmmmm.

Shouldn't you be somewhere watching a monkey movie?

[Boner M]

Now this is a teaser:

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Stylistically it already looks a considerable departure from Dogtooth. Can't wait for the Venice reception next week...

[B-side]

Stylistically it already looks a considerable departure from Dogtooth.

Que? Looks to be similarly cold and detached. Love the teaser, though.

[Boner M]

Que? Looks to be similarly cold and detached.

True, but there was probably more handheld camera in those 45 seconds than in the entirety of Dogtooth. And a zoom.

[Rowland]

I can't help but process the pop song dismissal as Lanthimos responding to his fellow Hellenic filmmaking compatriot (and producer of his films) Athin Rachel Tsangari's highly resonant use of pop music in the lovely Attenberg, especially since that film's star is also featured here.