The film is constructed from four continuous 90-minute takes that were filmed simultaneously by four cameramen; the screen is divided into quarters and the four shots are shown simultaneously. The film depicts several groups of people in Los Angeles as they interact and conflict while preparing for the shooting of a movie. The dialogue was largely improvised, and the sound mix of the film is designed so that the most significant of the four sequences on screen dominates the soundtrack at any given moment.
This is another film idea that i love. The realtime aspect of this film makes everything so 'REAL'. Everything is happening at the same time, which means that you can be in multiple places.
Although the idea is very clever, i don't think that the film really works. It is very busy and the sound is messy, which i guess is a technique that Figgis may have intended, but it is a pain in the brain to watch and keep on top of. There is a lot of information to take in from each of the 4 screens at the same time.
The parts of the film i like the most are the earthquakes, to see how all of the different people react to the same disaster, the phone calls between frames, i like the way that you can see both of the characters body language and also the points in the film where characters pass from frame to frame. I found it kind of like a game to chase the actors through the frames and to see them from different perspectives.
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