Gods Emissary
So today I feel totally rotten. Some cynics might put it down to all that turpentine I drank last night, but I think that’s just jumping to conclusions. Anyway on with the update:
How many of us loved Lock, stock and two smoking barrels? What about Snatch? I’d say most of the people I’ve come across who have seen these films either said they loved them and thought they were genius, or said they were disappointed because they saw the titles and thought they were renting hardcore porn. Moving on, Guy Ritchie’s latest addition to this genre is Revolver, which unless you have some odd revolving door fetish, can in no way be mistaken for porn. However taking into consideration that it stars Jason Statham and is directed by Guy Ritchie, it can quite easily trick you into thinking you are about to see a Lock stock or snatch style of film. Let me first say that this film is almost nothing like Guy Ritchie’s earlier movies. It is unexpectedly complex and needs to be watched more than once and possibly more than twice to fully comprehend. Anybody who tells you that they have seen it and understood every part and had no questions after the first viewing is either Guy Ritchie or they are making it up so that they can look highly intellectual in order to seduce you.
I am not going to sit here and guide you through the film scene by scene as not only would this take bloody ages but it’d probably be just as exciting as reading the script and about as frustrating as having the script read to you, by Tony Blair. Whilst trying to make love. Instead I am going to highlight a single part of the film that really did not make sense to me at all and go through the possible explanations. Then after the vain hope that some people might actually read this, I’m going to sit back and wait for the e-mails and comments that call me a noob and complain but also hopefully give me the answer. So here goes:
Why is it that when Jake Green (Jason Statham) finds out from Avi and Zach that he has only 3 days to live because of rare blood infection, he then gives them all his money and starts doing jobs for them. I mean it’s not like they offer him a cure or anything they just give him the bad news and a hospital chart result thingy and tell him that he’s got to do everything they say or… or what? He will die in 3 days? How a master chess player and a master conman stop a man dying from a rare blood infection I don’t know. The reason being of course being that they don’t, Jake Green never had the infection, somehow they faked his test results and fooled several completely different medical experts. As far as I can tell there are only two explanations for this part of the film:
1) I have only seen the film once so I may conceivably have missed the part where they say “do what we tell you and we give you the cure” although I find this unlikely as Jake never brings it up again, right up until 3 days have gone past and he doesn’t die. You’d think if there was a promised cure he would mention it rather than just give away everything he has to strangers and wait for death.
2) Jake Green thinks he is Gods emissary. Sounds crazy but think about it, he gives away everything he has, he knows when he’s going to die and isn’t even pretending to try and do anything about it. Then he starts talking in a cryptic manor and forgiving his enemies and all that malarkey. Perhaps he thinks that he can come back all powerful and start smiting everyone. Obviously when he doesn’t actually die this puts a dampener on things a bit but by this time it doesn’t matter because the movie has gone into nonsensical overload and everyone’s just wishing that the cinema people would be kind enough to stop the screening so that Guy Ritchie can be brought in by armed police for a bit of a question and answer session and perhaps a light pistol whipping.
See you next time kids!
How many of us loved Lock, stock and two smoking barrels? What about Snatch? I’d say most of the people I’ve come across who have seen these films either said they loved them and thought they were genius, or said they were disappointed because they saw the titles and thought they were renting hardcore porn. Moving on, Guy Ritchie’s latest addition to this genre is Revolver, which unless you have some odd revolving door fetish, can in no way be mistaken for porn. However taking into consideration that it stars Jason Statham and is directed by Guy Ritchie, it can quite easily trick you into thinking you are about to see a Lock stock or snatch style of film. Let me first say that this film is almost nothing like Guy Ritchie’s earlier movies. It is unexpectedly complex and needs to be watched more than once and possibly more than twice to fully comprehend. Anybody who tells you that they have seen it and understood every part and had no questions after the first viewing is either Guy Ritchie or they are making it up so that they can look highly intellectual in order to seduce you.
I am not going to sit here and guide you through the film scene by scene as not only would this take bloody ages but it’d probably be just as exciting as reading the script and about as frustrating as having the script read to you, by Tony Blair. Whilst trying to make love. Instead I am going to highlight a single part of the film that really did not make sense to me at all and go through the possible explanations. Then after the vain hope that some people might actually read this, I’m going to sit back and wait for the e-mails and comments that call me a noob and complain but also hopefully give me the answer. So here goes:
Why is it that when Jake Green (Jason Statham) finds out from Avi and Zach that he has only 3 days to live because of rare blood infection, he then gives them all his money and starts doing jobs for them. I mean it’s not like they offer him a cure or anything they just give him the bad news and a hospital chart result thingy and tell him that he’s got to do everything they say or… or what? He will die in 3 days? How a master chess player and a master conman stop a man dying from a rare blood infection I don’t know. The reason being of course being that they don’t, Jake Green never had the infection, somehow they faked his test results and fooled several completely different medical experts. As far as I can tell there are only two explanations for this part of the film:
1) I have only seen the film once so I may conceivably have missed the part where they say “do what we tell you and we give you the cure” although I find this unlikely as Jake never brings it up again, right up until 3 days have gone past and he doesn’t die. You’d think if there was a promised cure he would mention it rather than just give away everything he has to strangers and wait for death.
2) Jake Green thinks he is Gods emissary. Sounds crazy but think about it, he gives away everything he has, he knows when he’s going to die and isn’t even pretending to try and do anything about it. Then he starts talking in a cryptic manor and forgiving his enemies and all that malarkey. Perhaps he thinks that he can come back all powerful and start smiting everyone. Obviously when he doesn’t actually die this puts a dampener on things a bit but by this time it doesn’t matter because the movie has gone into nonsensical overload and everyone’s just wishing that the cinema people would be kind enough to stop the screening so that Guy Ritchie can be brought in by armed police for a bit of a question and answer session and perhaps a light pistol whipping.
See you next time kids!
posted by Walexei at 4:23 pm
1 Comments:
so basically it aint that good as da critics say...well as good as snatch and lock stock... guess ill judge it for my self.yea that last bit is a bit wierd lol
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