![]() ![]() The screenwriters throw us a twist, and, as unlikely as it is, it is welcome. Will it be a days-long orgy with tantalizing sex scenes and maybe a cryptic, tragic, 9-1/2 Weeks type ending? Or, storm over, sex over, friends go on and pretend nothing ever happened? Both of those themes have been played and re-played. Now the director shows us that we are dealing with two very different swinging scenarios: one fast and exhilarating, the other slow and sensuous. No problems thus far.some suspense as to how they were going to make the leap from friends to lovers, some well-acted party scenes to build up to that point, a plausible transition.okay. FINALLY, they get to the swinging and swapping that you knew was coming eventually from the description of the movie. There is a curious/intrigued/obsessed member of the other couple who can't get off the topic. There's a revelation from one couple that they are swingers. We start out with a pair of couples chatting and drinking, then drinking and chatting. In the scriptwriter's defense though, there wasn't much to be done with the subject matter, save go straight up porn. Unfortunately, great acting can't carry an entire movie, as witnessed by. That's great acting it's extemporaneous on cue. Scenes with two couples talking amongst the four, or in sets of two, seems natural and realistic. The actors in BookendS seem to adlib their scenes of this nature (which are throughout most of the film) in a convincing way, however. ![]() Often though, these scenes become unwieldy and cartoonish: your brain perceives the deception in the same way it knows that the characters in a video game aren't real. I have seen movies and TV shows in the past in which the actors were in a small party setting and trying to pass off random, overlapping conversation as being spontaneous. This crew of four, however, handle it ably even when said stage directions take turn and unlikely turn. I get the sense that much of this was a sparse script with occasional dialogue but mostly made up of stage directions like "act as if you are secretly, but not so discretely, attracted to character X." Lesser actors would have been crushed under such pressure. It's actually a decent flick, made so by the actors. ![]() I'm surprised that this doesn't have any reviews yet. ![]()
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