“Every citizen of this country should be talking about politics,” Richard Kelly says during our interview, and indeed it’s the failure of a contended suburban couple to pay attention to the political headwinds around them that leads to trouble in his latest mind-bending opus, The Box. Like the director’s two previous films, Donnie Darko and Southland Tales,The Box is a surrealist meditation on how we internalize political violence; it acutely examines the way we absorb and reflect back the...
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Jkid69
Australia
April 2007
NOV 28, 2009 03:19 PM
Missy, you are a cool interviewer. Your questions are interesting and considered.
I liked the overt 70's styling of this film, and the tribute & homage paid to Kubrick and Hitchcock, but generating such a ‘unique’ and somewhat non-sensical plot is not always successful. This movie cuts tethers of a rope until you have a bunch of unconnected pieces that you sit hanging for Stewart to connect back up in whatever sequence brings some cohesion. Alot of the plot lines seemed to have holes, and I never think its a good idea to torture a kid at the crescendo of a movie....its overt and unpalatable...so I get it...he is trapped in a box. but still, there could be something more surely. Its interesting that this interview ends talking about Darko and not the Box
Missy
SUICIDEGIRL
California, USA
NOV 06, 2009 07:00 AM