There comes
a point near the end of the film where worlds are colliding, we go from underwater to space, back to earth and at various points it's hard to decipher what's actually happening.
Not exact matches
Mosab's father, however, still believes him a traitor and has disowned him much like the majority
of Palestinians, a
point Schirman makes a bit too much on the nose by having Mosab deliver a lengthy speech
near the
film's
end, culminating in choking back and wiping away tears.
I enjoy strange
films as much as the next guy, and although Dreamcatcher starts off in fine fashion, it gets more surreal as the
film nears the halfway
point, until it finally goes off
of the deep
end during what is supposed to be an exciting climax.
One
of those falls, in particular,
near the
end of the movie is responsible for one
of the most breathtakingly gorgeous scenes
of violence I've ever witnessed and is sure to be a talking
point for everyone who sees the
film.
The
point, I think, at which I dangerously lost faith comes
near the
end, when what should be the
film's rather horrifying climax is turned into an ill - timed bit
of jaunty humor.
They're also given much more to do, to the
point that it's one
of Newt's decisions that propels the entire
film, and Gottlieb gets something
of a hero moment
near the
end of the second act.
Because almost every scene or sequence tells an individual story and the one overriding constant is something understandable to damn
near anyone (really wanting something for Christmas), the
film becomes a kind
of endless Moebius strip, an eternal December that can begin and
end at any
point but always returns to Ralphie peering in that store window and always concludes with the boy lying in bed, cradling his gun.