Iceland Schmiceland

"The Player" is the movie we watched in the Appreciating Film class this week. A movie about a screen-writer who has to judge every script that he sees on whether it is good enough to be one of the 12 movies his studio can do. The problem is that he is very rude most of the time, and for the thousands that he discards, the original writers are not happy. As the movie proceeds through, he slowly loses control of himself, and plunges into a kind of insanity.

The movie gave me completely mixed feelings... It is a noir film so that there isn't really a happy ending, but the ending just gave me the weirdest feeling. The woman i fell in love with, but the man... i wasn't very happy with. The man was a d-bag. Thats basically exactly how i feel about him. I feel like the woman has done nothing wrong, but the man is an aweful person. The contrast of the two love birds is the biggest reason as to why i feel that i am happy and upset at the same time with the ending. It is very wrong that he got away with the murder, and even though he wasn't married to his secretary girl - he still treated her like a dog.

I believe that he got worked up over the death threats...(((((SPPOILLLERRR))))) i wonder what happened to the real writer of the death threats... I wouldn't have gotten as crazy as he became. I would freak out a little bit, but i would not go nuts. One thing i would like to say is that i thought the detective that was spying on him was actually the crazy writer who wanted to kill the script writer who discarded his story.

I would like to say again, that i love the icelandic goddess in this movie.
The plot line was very good through the movie, kept me very interested throughout. Quite a few turns to keep me focused. I would watch it again, not just to see my icelandic goddess, but to catch small things that i feel i missed. The house at the end was pretty awesome by the way