I’ve just come back from a press screening of Where the Truth Lies, and in a week when I’ve just seen Chumscrubber and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang. Compared to the months of remakes, sequels and prequels we’ve been subjected to, and the half arsed attempts at storylines, I’m frankly amazed I’ve just seen so much quality and difference.
It really started last week with The Constant Gardener, and although I thought there were flaws, this was far from the conveyor belt movie that we’re reading about day after day here. Wednesday night I saw Chumscrubber and was quite taken aback at how great that movie is, and although it shares many similarities with Thumbsucker (amazingly enough) it’s still quite a unique package.
Thursday night hit me with Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang, where I was struck with another intelligent and slightly diverse story with some amazing performances. Then today the against type casting and very strong performances of the leads bring me Where the Truth Lies.
There is indeed much, much hope for Hollywood. If only they could look to more projects like these with intelligent casting, scripting and film making. Make a picture, not a snapshot. Note that I have made a definite point of not mentioning big blockbuster type movies – these may well be well made cash earners, but they aren’t in the arena of performance based movies like these.
There, I just wanted to say that…reviews for these three will follow.
