Director: Tom Tykwer Writer: Tom Tykwer Starring: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow, Annedore Kleist, Angela Winkler, Alexander Hörbe, Winnie Böwe, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Alexander Scheer, Karl Alexander Seidel During the opening split-screen montage, boxes multiply on the screen providing us with a menagerie of overlapping images and dialogue. Being that writer-director Tom Tykwer's 3 is in German (with English subtitles), it is difficult to make out everything that is being said. Even for native German-speakers, the barrage of sound and vision is probably a lot to consume at once; but the method of Tykwer's madness makes sense once we hear Hanna (Sophie Rois) -- in one of the split screen images -- complain to Simon (Sebastian Schipper) about her inability to follow the narrative of the film they are watching. Hanna's comment truly is a self-reflexive slap in the face. 3 has a lot to say about the over-saturation of content...
- 9/22/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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