duped

Duplicity is a good film. It has nice shots, good theme tune and transitions nicely from shot to shot, with a few decent effects. In fact, I could go on for ages about the beauty of the cinematography… because the plot lost me. Completely and totally; cutting from past to present, twisting and turning until it tied itself into knots. It was too complicated. Too... I don’t know. Some things that made sense during scenes were then revealed to be a sham and didn’t make sense in retrospect. What’s more, it started off too slow - with an entire five minute slow motion scene of two men fighting that only relates to the end… but by the time you’re there, you can’t even remember it anymore because your mind has just been frazzled – and there was no chemistry at all between the two lead characters; it just kinda made me feel cold.

Jade has been in Spain with college all last week and Rachael leaves on Wednesday to go to New York so us girls – Rachael, Jade, Jess, Beth and myself – decided to meet up to go to the cinema, just so we could all see each other at least once this holiday. We were going to see Knowing because it promised to be quite good, but then Jess’s parents said that the ending would let us down and that they feel cheated.

I would rather have had the comfort of understanding what was going on at that precise moment than sitting there in confusion the entire time, à la Duplicity. It was just far too pretentious and flashy and couldn’t live up to the expectation it had created for itself. Actually, I just checked out the reviews for Knowing and they seem to be worse than those for Duplicity. But most of the good reviews on the latter were people raving about how ‘clever’ it all was… so I guess they mistook their confusion for being down to having watched a super intelligent film.

And that… that makes me worried about the human race.