He is staying in an isolated hotel and a man in the next room dies accidentally-and Nicholson decides to trade identities with the corpse leaving the hotel with this new identity and letting everyone think it is he who has died. Then suddenly, he sheds his persona and takes on someone elses'. But he is also dispirited with his mission and in a way, despondent about his whole future and way of life. His overall demeanor is weary, frustrated, sullen the typical traveler who cant get good service. The depth of Nicholson's character is conveyed in miniscule components, parsed out after long intervals. But beyond this, you must infer most everything else about him from just what you see-just by observing his behavior, and nothing else. Jack Nicholson is a reporter named David Locke, and he is covering an African civil war. The plot starts out cryptically and simply, with very little explained about the man the camera spends so much time on. ![]() The brevity and scarcity in the film funnels you straight into Nicholson's awesome talent. Here, because characterization is channeled through Jack Nicholson, (far better even than in 'Blow-up' with David Hemmings) its more than enough. But I think he knows that character stands out with more relief when its set against a minimalist background. He uses his camera in such a quiet way and there is just this single, very terse figure/ground relationship which is the focus of his attention. Some people really dislike this about Antonioni. The principle here is that 'less is more'. He introduces us to the strange, existential story in this film, and its odd, solitary, lead character- in as clean, pure, and undiluted terms as possible. Just as in his other works, there are no unnecessary ornaments or frills here. But this desert setting is perfectly in accord with the refreshing cinematic technique of Michelangelo Antonioni, who always stressed economy. A desolate, exotic locale for a movie: the North African desert. But as a whole It was a decent film.(I) From the very first sequence, this is a starkly shot film with a very unique visual signature to everything you see. ![]() The two lead actors Johnny Berchtold and Kyle GallnerÄid a really good job, but I feel there was some things that were left unexplored, like why Benson turned out like that, and Randy's family was left out. First Randy who suffers from a childhood trauma that turned him into a withdrawn man, who is bullied and avoids making any conformations with anyone, then there is Benson, who is for some reason has so much rage inside and when he saw Randy being mistreated, he just snapped and decided to do something about it. The film is trying to address many issues that faces young people these days. I had no information about this film before seeing it, but I'm glad I did. Then the rest of the film these two guys go on a road trip with a fateful ending. ![]() A young man, Bradely whose first name is Randy but everyone thinks that Bradely is his first name, wakes up after a terrifying nightmare to go to the morning shift of a burger place, and over there the manager offers him a better job, since he's the only one there who actually gives a damn, then another guy there starts to bully him and forces him to eat a bid sandwich, only then another employee, Benson (Kyle Gallner) goes to his car and gets a shotgun and all hell breaks loose.
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