Then it slogs through a handful of truncated scenes, a few more interviews, yet another time - lapse,
more voiceover narration, and finally settles down at a seemingly random point.
Not exact matches
The
voiceover narration and slew of «life lessons» toward the end of the movie threaten to wreck it, but Starter for 10 manages not to take itself too seriously, which is
more than can be said for anything Zach Braff has done.
Braff's
voiceover narration tells a story (one we will hear twice
more over the course of the film, as if repetition can substitute for actual connection) about Aidan and his brother pretending to be superheroes as children, and realizing that maybe they weren't heroes: maybe they were just regular guys.
One of many bad choices is having Theron (who fares better the much
more energetic «Atomic Blonde») provide leaden
voiceover narration.
The film leans a bit hard on
voiceover narration and is far uglier and
more depressive than the trilogy's bookends but perhaps serves as a necessary corrective to the other two films, suggesting as it does that there's no escaping one's own inner nature.
It is definitely lacking the human drama of other dog films that are
more fondly remembered (like Old Yeller) and obviously comes without the
narration of The Adventures of Milo & Otis and
voiceovers of Disney's 1990s Homeward Bound
Where the earlier films offer a single (
more naïve than unreliable) narrator, The Thin Red Line dispenses with
narration altogether, replacing it with multiple subjective
voiceovers (sometimes accompanied by fleeting visual flashbacks) that insinuate themselves into the action as it proceeds.
Eschewing
voiceover narration or some artificially manufactured chronological narrative structure, the movie instead
more or less embraces chaos theory, loosely grouping its anecdotal insights with title cards.
I can't participate in any kind of lengthy discussion about Lovely Bones, there are just so many
more things I would rather be doing... but on your point Kurt about
voiceover narration hammering things home... how about its reference to the title of the movie... My God.
The incredibly lazy device of
voiceover narration assures girls in the audience Cassie is just like them, so the film's extended metaphor about surviving adolescence will resonate
more quickly.