Reality in Films

Reading Summary

In this reading, Klosterman explained his thinking in his movie review process. It seems that he has different opinions than that of other movie goers. He explains his judgement on movies is based on the concept of reality and the way a movie challenges those concepts along with actors portray characters. Klosterman gives two prime examples of movies that challenge the idea of reality, The Matrix and Vanilla Sky. In both movies the characters are offered an option between fake yet simple reality or a real and challenging reality. I both examples the character choose the later because although it is more difficult, it is the truth.

Outside Example

During this reading I was reminded of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a Quinten Tarantino film. This movie circles around the story of Sharon Tate’s murder committed by Charles Manson’s cult of misfits. but in this story there is a twist which involves two characters that would change the events of that infamous night. An actor, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and a stunt man, played by Brad Pitt, move next door to Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, which caused the murderers to plan an attack on Pitt and DiCaprio instead of Sharon Tate. In this version, their plan to kill did not go as smoothly as in the real version. Pitt’s character is considered a badass and he and his dog end up killing the intruders in a rather dark comedic fashion.

Connection

The reading reminded me of this movie because Klosterman claims there has not been a good movie for people who truly like movies since 2003. I would claim this movie should be a movie he would agree is truly a good movie. It challenges reality by rewriting true events that once happened. The real magic about this movie is the great attention to detail put into the scenes and characters. Tarantino is truly a genius when it comes to creating movies in an unorthodox and thought provoking manner. Also, this movie should be considered to be a great film because of the required knowledge of this event before hand to appreciate the movie.