To my great delight, however, the main character, a soldier, eventually starts to get fed up with all the stories as well and asks a question that had started to brew in my own mind: What is the point of all of these stories? Though I was really enjoying my viewing of all these various vignettes, towards the later parts of the film I started to wonder how many more stories I would hear, and that’s where the tedium started to sink in. The way the stories are crafted, however, is brilliant for the most part, it feels natural to fall through these levels of stories. There are so many stories inside of this film that at times it becomes difficult to keep track of what’s really going on in reality (if there is such a thing in this film). Some of these characters start stories that have no ending and are seemingly without point some characters inside of stories appear in one story, disappear, and then reappear in other stories some of the stories are quiet comedic, while others are thrilling. This is a movie about stories, and stories inside of stories, and stories inside of stories inside of stories… Because of the nature of this movie, there are dozens of characters. With all that going for this film, I figured it was a safe bet.įor the most part, I really enjoyed this movie, but I have to say at times it was a bit tedious and repetitive, and both qualities in the film are done so purposefully. I went on to learn that Frances Ford Coppola (director of “The Godfather”) and Martin Scorsese (director of “Taxi Driver”) financed a restoration of this film, and Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) is apparently a huge fan. While I haven’t read this book, I remembered watching an interview with Neil Gaiman (author and show runner of Good Omens), and he highly recommended the novel… so I figured I could at least watch the movie, even if I didn’t have time to read the book (the bibliophile inside me raged in protest even as I typed out that sentence). When scouring his filmography, I found this film, the “Saragossa Manuscript” and I immediately recognized the title, not from the film, but from the novel by Jan Potocki of the same name. I really enjoyed Wojciech Has’ “The Hourglass Sanatorium”, so when we at TMM approached the Poland leg of our World Tour Series I knew I wanted to check out another one of Has’ films.
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