8th April 2007

Plot Keywords

Now there's a funny thing. Take these:

Male nudity
Brain damage
Neo noir
Female nudity
Death
Car trouble
Drug rehabilitation
Fantasy sequence
Drug war
Hallucination
Drug addiction
Shot in the head
Premarital sex
Police
Surveillance
Pistol
Detective
Dead blown off
Vomit
Pawn (note that's 'pawn' and not 'prawn')
Silencer
Suicide attempt
Paranoia
Dream sequence
Deception
Rotoscoping
Drug dealer
Split personality
Undercover cop
Based on novel
Title spoken by character
Twist in the end

Sounds pretty good right? Well it's not all that.
I have also just checked out some others (Thelma and Louise, Bound, Finding Nemo), but there are far too many for me to write down. However, my point is....well, I'm not sure I have one to be honest. Except they're funny. For me.
I mean, from Finding Nemo, how can you call 'Directions' a plot KEYword. Is it?? Directions??? 'Fish', I can understand.

Anyhow, the film with the above list of exciting 'keywords' is 'A Scanner Darkly', and was OK. Nice to look at. But not as exciting as the keywords. I recommend you read them and use your imagination.