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I happened to see ‘What the #$*! Do We Know’ and ‘Wicker Park’ on the same day. The what the bleep film focused on the world of quantum physics, where a dozen experts gave testimonials that we have no knowledge of anything. I’ve always found quantum physics perplexing, so it was welcoming to know the rest of the world finds it hard too.
‘Wicker Park’ puts me at ease, and that’s why, while watching, I kept thinking of it like I did with the rest of the universe. By substituting ‘Wicker Park’ with ‘quantum physics’, the movie became more enjoyable. For instance, the plot progresses forward, although inside the plot there is only a void which is akin to the inside of an atom. Scientists think that time only starts at the beginning and flows forward into a future at the end, and that helps with the order of events not becoming jumbled. Like in the movie and the concept of quantum physics, time can run in any direction.
My favorite part of the film was the idea that Columbus’s ships could not be seen by the Native Americans due to a lack of presence in their reality. An old shaman stood on the beach watching, and although he could not see the ships at first, he was able to spot them after waiting for some time. He was wise enough to understand that some ships had the ability to alter the flow of the ocean’s waves. According to the documentary, we also think that we are able to perceive everything around us, but the truth is that if it is beyond our realm of understanding, we automatically ignore it. This is very similar to how I was not able to spot the storyline of this film. However, after paying closer attention to it, I was able to realize that it was actually based on a love story. The plot took place inside three apartments in Chicago, so I ended up referring to them as the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Am I a slow study? Doesn’t seem like it to me. A reviewer for the BBC website claims that the movie is set in New York. It is set in New York and filmed in Chicago as well as Montreal. Quantum Physics explains how persons can exist as fragments in many places at the same time Chicago and Montreal.
Faithful readers will notice that I have said almost nothing about the movie. This is because the movie is completely a series of plot twists and turns that are not describable due to the sudden reveal. In the least specific terms possible, let me say that there exists a romance “The Real Thing”, that Matthew (Josh Hartnett) has with Lisa (Diane Kruger) but due to tragic miscommunication, it comes to rather abrupt and tragic head. They both spend half the movie in conversations over the telephone, and neither one makes the one call that would resolve everything, but fails utterly. It is one of those plots where impossible events are perfectly orchestrated and logical actions are out of the question.
Two years go by. Matthew is now with Rebecca (Jessica Pare). He is about to fly to China to make a deal for her father’s company, but while at a restaurant, he thinks he sees Lisa. This leads him down a path filled with strange addresses and hotel room keys, as well as notes that either get sent to their intended recipients or don’t. Because he first met Lisa by stalking her, and he looks for her now in the same way, the past and present intertwine in a lovely manner, and we are never completely certain whether he is following the Lisa he wants to meet, or the one he has lost.
Then, there are Alex (Rose Byrne) and Luke (Matthew Lillard). They begin dating each other. Luke is Matthew’s best friend, but Alex is not aware of this. Alex makes Lisa her friend, but Lisa has no idea … oh, whatever. And I will not even say anything about what is the real reason behind Alex’s desire.
Strange enough, I liked it all at that moment . The movie is derived from a French film “L’Appartement” made in 1996 which I did not watch – which is fine because the new American film “Criminal” is based on “Nine Queens” which is an Argentinian film from the year 2000 and I did watch so I was aware of everything that was going to happen. Even if I had watched “L’Appartement”, I might not know everything that is going to happen to “Wicker Park” because I do not think anyone knows this, most notably the director Paul McGuigan and the writers Gilles Mimouni and Brandon Boyce.
Now that we have comprehended the principles (or at the very least the details) of the plot, “Wicker Park” thrives because the actors give their scenes what is, given the circumstances, shocking emotional realism. Josh Hartnett and Rose Byrne, in a particular scene, say so much that when considering everything said and not said in the scene, we feel true sympathy towards both. There is an emotional craziness to the way Hartnett misses his plane to China, and then starts hiding around Chicago/Montreal as if he were some detective. The way Matthew Lillard does not grasp that he is on the verge of being an unwitting bystander has a certain open innocence to it. And Diane Kruger, whose Lisa suffers from logical whiplash inflicted by the plot, always, however, rightly seems to know when it is and how she is supposed to feel. And that is what we call acting.
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