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From: Adam Underwood
Category: Films
Date: 04 March 2006
If I -can- recall; a view from a reviewer in America spoke of the *drift* of the film; its blizzard-like 'being' (of information). No one should be envied the task of the Usual Suspects - that is to say of 'being put to task by it' - as its the most miserable example of a nature of torment; this surely incriminates Memento too, with its backward glance to the new and improved industrious torpidity of film past, and for all its theoretical garnish, it only garnishes the thought of those able to resist its irrisistable path. Syriana is impressively distant to the viewer's (pre-formed) consumptive appetite, but its not pseudo-information that ingratiates the viewer (as in ER), or deliberately highfalutin; indeed, the verbal communication of it is strikingly struck through with the visible (not to mention emotional) *life* of information of a character within his or her surrounding environment; interpreted and misinterpreted by themselves, among themselves, long before the reviewer can protest at not having a clear set of facts diligently presented. Come the third act, and the many scattered pieces seem - suddenly - to rivet together, and one is left downward, spiralling.
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