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A completely different film that'll make you believe in going to the movies again |
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| A completely different film that'll make you believe in going to the movies again | ||
| by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid
- SGN A&E Writer
Illusion Directed by Michael Goorjian Starring: Kirk Douglas, Michael Goorjian, Karen Tucker, Ron Marasco, Richmond Arquette, Ted Raimi, Bryan Cranston, Kristen Clement, Eugenjy Voronin Opens February 24th The Meridian (Seattle) & Lincoln Square (Bellevue) It's not everyday you leave a film feeling not only uplifted, but feeling as if there's actually hope for the human race, or at least for Hollyweird. That's how my friend and I left after attending the screening last week of 'Illusion', a film that deals with dying in a most innovative way. Starring the inimitable Kirk Douglas as a man at the end of his life, who gets a chance to not only see what happened to the son he abandoned when he was a young film producer, but to change the course his son's life took. Using Douglas as the focal point of the film, new director Michael Goorjian (who also stars in the film as Douglas' character's son) paints a lush canvas onto the screen through three segments in the film's body. Each segment is shown as a reel of film, serving as a film within a film, for Douglas, who plays Donald Baines, the dying film producer, who watches, wishing he had been there for his son (Michael Goorjian). And as each reel, from teen to young man, to a man nearly out of chances for his life to turn around-he ends up in prison after the woman he has pursued his whole life shoots the man she thinks has killed him, the son-unravels, Baines himself feels the pain of loss. He also feels helpless to change things, which he sees going so badly, as Death, who appears as a long, long friend who had died years earlier (played by Ron Marasco) shows him each 'reel' of his son's life. And even though I won't reveal the ending, I can tell you it does end happily, and I can also tell you that if you go to see 'Illusion', take plenty of hankies, as it's a tear jerker to be sure. But, tears aside, this is definitely one of the most brilliantly presented and lavishly executed films I have seen in some time, and coming from a new film maker, a very good beginning. One hopes this is the kind of film Hollywood will start making, which might even get people happy to plunk down serious money for films again. |
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