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Film Club #1 - Good Time *Spoilers from post 12*

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    #32
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,670 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    buried wrote: »
    The frequent usage of the mobile/smartphone was another interesting aspect up in this film. You don't really notice it right away, obviously due to the frequent usage of these things we use in our own daily lives anyways, but the phone plays a huge part in how the whole thing plays out, right from the start.
    Connie calling the driver from the bank, Corey in the cab flicking through the holiday resorts in the cab on the way to the bail bonds place, Corey roaring at her mother cutting off her credit card, Crystal being berated by her Grandmother for constantly being on her phone and never looking at her when she is speaking, Crystal then just giving her phone to Connie who then uses it to find the theme park and then the apartment, Ray using it calling his dealer buddies, calling his house to see whats going on. Even at the end Ray is calling yer man to tell him where the acid bottle is. The mobile smartphone is used a lot up in this, The mobile phone is almost a character itself in this thing, I would go as far to say that in this film it's really shown as a accomplice tool for the dodge-ball criminally minded person and a total useless zone out toy for the naive, gullible person.

    Yeah, a lot of Connie's power seems to come via his control of media devices. Mobile phones, as you said, but also televisions. The grandmother tells Connie that the remote control on the tv doesn't work. Later, while he's watching tv with Crystal, Connie tells her to get up and change the channel, literally using her in place of the broken remote. Then he kisses Crystal, obscuring her vision of the tv so she doesn't see his face on the news report. Then in the security guard's apartment, we see him sit down and point two remote controls at the tv.

    Tv and phone screens are the source of a lot of the light in the film as well.


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    #33
    Smegging hell
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Smegging hell


    Really liked it, agree that there are a lot of parallels with the Florida Project.


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