Nov 02 2007
No Such Thing
Writ & Dir: Hal Hatley
- Sarah Polley … Beatrice
- Robert John Burke … The Monster
- Julie Christie … Dr. Anna
- Erica Gimpel … Judy
- Helen Mirren … The Boss
- Baltasar Kormákur … Artaud
So there I was, flicking around this afternoon when I came across No Such Thing. My wonderful browse feature told me it was the story of a young female reporter who tried to find out what happened her missing fiancée only to discover a foul-mouthed monster whom she befriends.
Only it was a lot stranger than that. The first hour or so was all about Beatrice. On her way to Iceland to track down her fiancée her plane crashed into the sea. She was the sole survivor, but was terribly injured. In the world of this film the media have taken over and pretty much run the world, but must contend with a public who grow bored of anything after only a few hours.[1] Beatrice’s boss tried to make her go public and tell her story, but Beatrice doesn’t want to so she is pretty much abandoned in the hospital, where she must undergo an extremely painful operation, with only limited painkiller/anaesthetic.
- I reckon there is some meaning there, I just cant quite figure out what it is… ↩
