Tuesday, January 27, 2009

I'm Not Sure Why It's Called Inkheart

Inkheart is a movie about a book that's about a book called Inkheart. If you try to tell people you saw the movie Inkheart, they always say, "What?" so you have to say it like it's two words. And then you have to mention Brendan Frasier. Then they might know what you're talking about. Inkheart wasn't a bad movie. It wasn't a great movie. I think whether you're a child or an adult, you might think the same way. It had creativity, action, good costumes and good scenery (especially the castles) going for it. I also liked the comments people made in the movie about reading, about how you can travel and experience so much of life and fantasy by having it come alive in your head for you when you read it in a book. But ... in the movie, a few of the characters had the uncontrollable ability to make characters from a book come out of the book, and then someone would go into the book. I had a hard time trying to figure out the time-space continuum involved in the life sequence and action in the book. If characters lived inside the book, how long would it take to get to the end? Would it be real time? Would nothing be happening if no one was reading the book? Do the characters' lives repeat themselves when someone finishes the book and someone else starts it? All this confusion is almost enough to make me go on an adventurous journey for the book, just like Brendan Frasier's character, Mo, does.

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