Intricacies in shocking, stressing and spying scripts

After TIFF…

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Olga: How many films did you see during the festival?

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Oliver: Five.

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Olga: Only five? You usually see more.

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Oliver: Yes, last year I saw fifteen. But this year, the shows didn’t align with my planning.

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Olga: Anything remarkable?

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Oliver: They were all great. But the last three, they were all so … so intricately layered.

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Olga: You mean complicated?

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Oliver: Well, Advantages of Travelling by Train, that was layers of stories of a paranoid schizophrenic. Shocking. And Marriage Story, well the story gets complicated when Charlie and Nicole start on the road to divorce and the lawyers come in like jackals to tear strips off what little they had, oh total gobsmack. And WASP Network, Cuban migrants in Miami, some groups for Castro, others anti-Castro, all spying and counterspying on each other through the FBI.

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Voice-over

Movie plots with labyrinthine complexities.

Advantages of Travelling by Train: Paranoid schizophrenia > parallel universes.

Marriage Story: Spousal mental anguish > legal venality.

WASP Network: Castro’s political naivety > migrants’ political intrigues.

In such films, it might help if the scriptwriter works with an editor from the get-go.

And not try to review three films in one post? Yes. Point taken.

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