What a stupid name for a movie. It's not even "Nine". Guess they
wanted to stand out in an alphabetical listing.
So yeah, I watched "9". It's thoroughly incoherent. In the 10-minute
short film that it's based on, just about everything is left unseen.
Which works well - it's all mysterious and you're free to insert your
most convincing explanation.
But by expanding it they just show how flimsy their actual ideas were.
How many different things can the glowing MacGuffin do? Why does it
fit perfectly into that slot in the Machine? And really, what the heck
did the Scientist want the ragdolls to do with it? Because that didn't
seem to be what happened.
When I can watch a movie, guess what's going to happen next, and be
disappointed that my guess made far more sense than what actually
happens... you know something's gone wrong.
(Namely: we're told the Machine is evil because it has no soul. Well,
the MacGuffin is absorbing soul pieces into it. So we should stop
fighting, let it suck in the remaining soul pieces, then it will have
a soul, stop being evil, and... yay!)
Jobs today: made a plan for getting Michael into the French immersion
course. It had better work. We don't have much time.
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