Timecode

Cake Fiend

Saw this in the IFC last week - very strange, very good film. The screen is split in 4, like Mario Kart or something, and each camera follows a different person, while the people's paths through the film cross and intertwine, etc. It's like Pulp Fiction or something, but you watch each perspective at the same time - fuppin amazing concept.

The film is about 1hr 45mins long, and the whole thing was done in one take - 4 cameras constantly going for an hour and 3/4, no edits. If this wasn't amazing enough, the film was mostly improvised - very little in the way of a script, just key points given to the actors I'd say.

There's not much of a story to it unfortunately, but you could say that about similar films, such as Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. It's like watching a soap from 4 different views.

TwoShedsJackson

uummm, I thought Pulp Fiction & Reservoir Dogs had a story.....

plastic membrane

Funny, i thought the same thing. Mabye your thinking that Pulp Fiction has multiple plot threads that combine at certain points, but no main storyline. Mabye. But then mabye you hated aformentioned Tarantino flicks. Which would explain it..

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Im going to the bear fights tomorrow, want to come with ??

Cake Fiend

No, I like the films, it's just that they're more sort of 'a day in the life' of a few gangsters kind of thing than a detailed plot. Anyway, what are you doing here, go see Timecode!