Friday, September 22, 2006
NARRATIVE• Pretty Persuasion is more multi-layered than most farces. Just when you think you have figured out all of the tangled relationships, Halim keeps surprising with new twists and subplots. His screenplay is rich and dense in ideas, going way beyond the revenge scheme of three girls
•Instead of telling the story in linear, progressive manner, Halim opts for a more complex structure, in which episodes in the past are shown in flashbacks, and sometimes in flashbacks within flashbacks.
•Disregarding chronology, title cards often announce, one month earlier or one month later.
•This particular structure makes the film more suspenseful, and also enables the viewers to validate what they have heard from the characters? subjective POV with what has actually occurred in a more objective and neutral manner.
Sherish at 11:23 AM