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Lunch at The Poijer by Henk Tobbe Via Flickr: :Dessert: Lemon merqgue.

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Abstract question but when authors/directors and such are questioned on convoluted lore points and they respond with: "That's up to interpretation of the audience", what do you typically think? Is that an interesting approach, or is it an excuse to be mysterious for the sake of it? Or they honestly can't think of an answer?

Everything is contextual.

Some stories are written to be mysterious on purpose. Valve did this with the Half-Life series – much of the story of that first game is implied, not told. You get the impression you’ll never get solid, definitive answers to mysteries that persist all the way to Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

Or, like, Total Recall, right. The 1990 movie is all set up around the idea that the whole thing could just be a dream. The movie opens with Quaid going in to take a virtual vacation and the package he chooses is a vague version of the film’s plot. The last lines of the movie specifically call this out, never definitively answering one way or the other.

The ultimate example is The Shining, which seems to delight in confusing the audience with weird imagery and unexplained events. A great deal of that movie is ambiguous, which just makes it all the creepier, because it catches you off guard a lot.

And it can work, if the creator knows what they’re doing, and use that ambiguity as a tool. But there are a lot of writers that don’t, and use that ambiguity as a bandaid to fix their bad writing.

Like, many halloweens ago, some friends and I watched a movie called Lemon Tree Passage. It’s a terrible, convoluted ghost story that, in the end, was just using confusion and ambiguity to cover up a boring premise.

When it’s used properly, I like it, but I do think that even when its used well, too much tends to spoil the pot. I honestly didn’t really like The Shining because it feels like half that movie is disconnected “Look at this scary and confusing thing!” scenes. 

A little ambiguity can add spice to a movie because not everything has to be meticulously justified, but too much ambiguity and I lose interest.

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Pippa Black in Lemon Tree Passage (2013)

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‘The Passage’ on DVD in the UK next month

‘The Passage’ on DVD in the UK next month

  The outback is one of the scariest places in the planet and films like WOLF CREEK has shown just how maniacal that place can be. In THE PASSAGE (LEMON TREE PASSAGE) a group of backpackers hit Australia they run across a local ghost legend that does not want them to continue their journey. The David Campbell feature heads to DVD on October 5th in the UK courtesy of Metrodome Distribution. THE…

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Porcherie del Mese: Aprile

Porcherie del Mese: Aprile

 Eccoci di nuovo all’appuntamento mensile con i film da evitare accuratamente se volete mantenere la vostra sanità mentale e non rischiare di ridurvi come me, che assisto a certa roba e non mi capacito di come sia possibile che esista, che qualcuno l’abbia finanziata dopo aver letto le sceneggiature, nonché approvata nelle varie fasi della lavorazione. Poi ci rifletto due secondi e mi ricordo…

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