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Don't Have The Time?

"28 Days later in under a minute. On one Take."

A thing about movies, is that for all the pleasure they can bring, all the thinking they can provoke, all the debate they can stir up, they still take time in the day to sit down, view and enjoy. That's less of  a problem if you have space in your day and hours to kill, but for the time pressured among us, keeping up with the movie scene can be a real stretch.  But does it have to be?

There seems to be a very small trend at the moment towards concentrating the cinema essentials into a smaller package, with a view to delivering a movie's key messages (and to a degree the enjoyment) but in less than half the time.  Check this out for Gran Torino in 10 minutes.

The trade off is clearly around the experience, the scope to suspend our disbelief and immerse ourselves in another life or a different world.  Clearly this approach will never work for some films and most film fans.  But, when you get souls as creative as this crew 'on an alternative set of 28 Days Later' you might end up debating with friends as to where the most immediate enjoyment is actually to be had.

Categories Film Tags Art culture Drama

By Juan on 30/9/09