jheilman
09-05-2007, 02:47 PM
Anyone else see this film? We just caught it on DVD last night. I'm a Sandra Bullock fan (although not really impressed with much she's done lately) and my wife and I missed this in theaters, so we were looking forward to the DVD.
Wow, what a mess! The film lacks logic, drama and surprises. It seemed like I was so ahead of Sandra's character in figuring out what was happening and I became bored while she tried to figure it out. Esssentially, she's living non-linearly (is that a word?). She wakes up on a Thursday, is told her husband died in a car crash. She goes to sleep that night, wakes up on the previous Monday and he's alive. She bounces back and forth pre- and post-death all the time aiming for the Wednesday where he actually dies. It's all portrayed with such a sloppiness and a mass of inconsistencies that it's hard to watch.
Example - prior to the husband's death, one of their two young daughters accidently runs through a plate glass door at home. Sandra takes her to the ER and she's fine. The husband races to the hospital, hugs all-around and lets get on with life. There is no real question of how the injury happened. Husband doesn't suspect anything, doctor's don't say a word. Flash forward about 4 days and Sandra is hauled away to a psych ward because her mother and doctor are convinced that her abuse of the daughter caused the cuts to her face. HUH?? WHAT?? Now, Sandra's character. at that time, doesn't yet know how the cuts happened. She hasn't experienced the day of the accident... yet, but the filmmakers are implying that the previous days aren't "real" until Sandra lives through them? But much in the film counters that theory. And what about the daughter? Did she simply wake up one day with cuts on her face?
Now this is only one example that jumps out at me of a serious lack of internal logic. Furthermore, the entire crux of the piece seems to be that if Sandra DID NOT experience the premonition, and attempt (finally) to act on it, her husband would NOT have been killed. :freak: So she gets to live with that knowledge. Well thanx a bunch for showing me that little slice of the future!
Wow, what a mess! The film lacks logic, drama and surprises. It seemed like I was so ahead of Sandra's character in figuring out what was happening and I became bored while she tried to figure it out. Esssentially, she's living non-linearly (is that a word?). She wakes up on a Thursday, is told her husband died in a car crash. She goes to sleep that night, wakes up on the previous Monday and he's alive. She bounces back and forth pre- and post-death all the time aiming for the Wednesday where he actually dies. It's all portrayed with such a sloppiness and a mass of inconsistencies that it's hard to watch.
Example - prior to the husband's death, one of their two young daughters accidently runs through a plate glass door at home. Sandra takes her to the ER and she's fine. The husband races to the hospital, hugs all-around and lets get on with life. There is no real question of how the injury happened. Husband doesn't suspect anything, doctor's don't say a word. Flash forward about 4 days and Sandra is hauled away to a psych ward because her mother and doctor are convinced that her abuse of the daughter caused the cuts to her face. HUH?? WHAT?? Now, Sandra's character. at that time, doesn't yet know how the cuts happened. She hasn't experienced the day of the accident... yet, but the filmmakers are implying that the previous days aren't "real" until Sandra lives through them? But much in the film counters that theory. And what about the daughter? Did she simply wake up one day with cuts on her face?
Now this is only one example that jumps out at me of a serious lack of internal logic. Furthermore, the entire crux of the piece seems to be that if Sandra DID NOT experience the premonition, and attempt (finally) to act on it, her husband would NOT have been killed. :freak: So she gets to live with that knowledge. Well thanx a bunch for showing me that little slice of the future!