2007-08-22 
 

post about poster boy

Watched Poster Boy tonight. The acting was better than I'd expected, the storyline darker and the dialogue sharper. All good things, but that said, I mistakenly thought it would be a comedy and it ended up being a drama. A bit like taking a sip of lemonade and suddenly realizing that it's milk.

There were some things that bothered me in general. The camera work went back and forth between artsy/shaky to normal. The editing went from normal to docu choppy and back again...and back again.

There was also the annoyance of a narrative framing device that contradicted itself. (The story is being told by one character and we see everything as a series of flashbacks, yet we also end up seeing quite a few things that this character couldn't have known through first hand experience. I'm doubting that he would've heard it about them from the other characters.)

All that, and it still may have deserved a thumbs up just for my new celebri-crush, but the ending bugged me too much. I can't go into specifics without revealing spoiler material, but it's not because I missed everyone being at their shiny/happiest at the end. It is a drama after all. There was a plot thread that was abruptly dropped without a proper explanation and an error of omission that really bugged me regarding a major character. Basically, for those of you who have seen it, why didn't Anthony attend a certain event at the VERY end of the movie that we as the audience only hear about? I need more back story to believe that would happen no matter where he and a certain female were in their relationship.

Funny how one picky detail at exactly the wrong moment can change your opinion about something.

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* posted by me at 2:18 AM

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