In this post I will not comment any film. I'm just a consideration on the final two films in the light of the recent vision of their respective DVD. The film "Cassandra's Dream" by Woody Allen and "The Happening" by M. Night Shyamalan. (For the record that I love are both authors). Both films left me puzzled with regard to the final. The first ended too hastily with that shot of the boat the two brothers who seem to have no apparent meaning, the other one with a feel-good and too out curtain familiar place. Now, reviewing the film on DVD I realized those finals and I've re-evaluated. Here's how.
As for Allen's film, I admit that I could make this argument directly in the room, but when I had not thought of. Blame the translator of the securities. "Cassandra's Dream" in fact as well known is the Italian title of the film, while the original "Cassandra's Dream," Cassandra's dream. Cassandra, Priam's daughter, according to Greek mythology Apollo was a gift from the power to foretell the future. His, however, were dire predictions, which nobody believed. It was, therefore, the bearer of doom and tragedy.
In the film, Cassandra's dream as the two brothers damage to their boat, with the hope that this will bring him luck in view of the plans, particularly financial, which have in mind. But things will go in an entirely different way. The dream of prosperity soon will turn into tragedy.
Woody Allen decided to close the film going to frame their own boat, the scene of their death as well as the final implementation of foreboding. Quell'inquadratura going to close with dignity the tragic dream going to show how everything was already planned from the outset. With the purchase of the boat and especially the choice of that name (which derives from the name of one of the dogs on which Terry had gambled at the track and through whom won the money needed to buy the boat) Terry and Ian have marked their lives. We viewers knew from the beginning, or at least we should have and Allen reminds us that with his shot in close. Just because the story of Terry and Ian is the story of a prophecy, an omen of tragedy that Cassandra had told us from the beginning.
The second final this time, more sense thanks to the recently released DVD. "The Happening" the latest work by one of the most exciting contemporary filmmakers, M. Night Shyamalan, ends with a family picture in which we find Alma pending the outcome of the pregnancy test. The result is positive and happy all down the streets to announce the happy news to her husband. Final frankly absurd and completely out of context, better suited to a B-movie than a work of an author's careful and original as Shyamalan. It must be said that in the meantime, according to the same director, there were actually beginning to realize the intentions of a good B movie, but in all this amp really seemed more a constraint from the production of the original idea that a director.
Instead, I understand the intentions of Shyamalan and the function of this final viewing the scenes of the film. These include the original opening sequence of the film that, dfferenza the "final cut", did not begin in Central Park, but but at the home of Alma and Elliot in the middle of a fight. Alma reveals to her husband does not feel protected by him, to see him again as a child, was not ready for this to have a child and have always been convinced that he would never have given him the security he needs.
In view of this scene, it is clear what were the intentions of Shyamalan to installation. The movie ends at home because Moore started Moore home. The dramatic events that have shaken the world in the end, paradoxically, put away the situational sentimental character. The tragedy led to Elliot and Alma to face, to discover themselves and to help Elliot finally reaches up to that Alma time was always one step forward and we feel insecure and alone. In the midst of this situation as a couple, suddenly, without explanation Nature rebels and panic breaks out. 45 years ago were the birds which sowed death and madness among the people, now nature is manifested in other ways, then, the horror ends as it began, without reason, without any signal. Life returns to normal, with the knowledge that we are not and will never be masters of the world, that we are only guests of a reality much more powerful than us. And life goes on for this couple but now that has changed. Elliot has been shown to be able to take care of Alma and now that the two are now for the first time something alone, you may be happy to give birth to a child. Why then it is this that speaks the film: the human need of having to look inside themselves, to break away from the group, by the company to really understand who we are and who else (this is shown by the necessity of allegorical characters increasingly isolated in small groups to escape the toxin).
The scene was scrapped during assembly by Shyamalan, because it ended up right in the face to the viewer blurt out all the emotional situation of the two characters in the first 5 minutes. While, in this way, we gradually discover what happens between the two, what they think and what they feel, hearing about a debate, a fight which we know nothing but that can give depth to the characters.
Now one may ask, but if you've decided to start this off, why not remove the finish that now has no meaning?
The reason is that the decision was made during assembly, when the film was already shot and beautiful and not at the script. A beginning can be changed, simply discard the scene and begin with a scene 2. But this is not done with the final at least, just not yet time to write and girarne a new one. Delete the final scene of the pregnancy test was not possible just because there There was no final disposition. You could not end up with Elliot and Alma that meet on the lawn, nor with the only scene in Paris. It was necessary to use force provided the only conclusion that even if they are not significant, was the only possible one.
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