![]() It drops a twist on us that is so ridiculous that it actually changes the entire genre of the film. But then, about an hour into the movie, something great happens and it all starts to make sense…I realize this is all intentional. You start to wonder if this is self-parody. Such as McConaughey’s insane brooding about catching a fish, or Hathaway’s cartoonish line deliveries, or even the fact that the filmmakers keep shamelessly pounding it into our brains that everyone knows everyone’s business in this town. Things keep happening that should be extremely alarming for anyone who has ever paid attention to movies. It doesn’t help that the dialogue written for her is chock full of oft-parodied genre cliches.Īs I’m watching, I’m scribbling in my notes, going off about the writer trying to emulate bad film noir from the 1930s. She’s taking this film noir thing so seriously, as though she just landed the lead in the high school play and is just copying what she’s seen in the movies. With Hathaway’s entrance, the story gains an actual plot, but her performance is so cringeworthy that it almost doesn’t seem real. We learn that after Karen and Baker’s divorce, Baker went off the grid to escaped to the island. In comes Karen Zariakas (Anne Hathaway), Baker’s ex-wife, who approaches him about murdering her current husband, Frank (Jason Clarke), who’s become extremely abusive. For the first 30 minutes, we’re not only watching a movie about Matthew McConaughey’s character, Baker Dill, obsessing over not being able to catch this big fish, but a film noir about it. It’s frustrating and makes you want to check out. With any other plot detail that gets brought up, as far as background information or why they’re obsessing, you feel as though you’re being intentionally left in the dark. The entire island town Baker lives on has seems to have unrealistically bought into this obsession and it’s over-the-top. You can tell that he’s seen this fish before, but this most recent attempt is his closest yet, thus furthering an obsession that he has about catching it – a la Captain Ahab.īut it’s not just him. Baker takes over and begins wrestling with the giant tuna, though after a few minutes struggling on the line the fish gets away. It opens up with Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) on a fishing boat with a few other guys, when something begins tugging at the line. It’s going to divide the audience, not just because of how bad the movie is before its twist, but because the twist comes in the middle of the story and changes the landscape of the film entirely. Those films also had a lot going for them, even before those famous climaxes. ![]() And both of their well-earned twists come at the conclusions of their respective movies. Take classics like The Sixth Sense or the original Planet of the Apes, for example. Sometimes a movie’s plot twist can be so huge that it precedes the movie itself.
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