![]() The way I see it is that a narration is a subset of voiceover. Case in point – Pear Cider and Cigarettes, a 2016 animated short nominated for Oscars in the same category.Īs an auteur, it is important to understand what is the difference in a voice-over and in a narration. But before we move forward on our probe, I must also confess – there have been really good examples of narration in the past which move you during your film viewing experience. I mean Hemingway did it in writing, can’t filmmakers do it on a visual medium which in principle is meant to show, not tell. ![]() I come from the school of show, don’t tell. And this is about what I took away after my viewing of the film. I feel, the narrator – portrayed reliably in the film kills the game. Maybe the non-usage of constant voiceover of the narrator, who happens to be the third generation in the series of family tragedy, could have made the movie more real, more raw, more earnest. I did not find the film melodramatic at all. The only thing is life so far has made me shed tears is Art, and what a tear jerker Life Itself could have been. Life Itself, is a movie which becomes the culprit of the Art form it is trying to emulate – literature. ![]() And thus, I was excited to unearth Life Itself. Dan Fogelman by the sheer attempt of Danny Collins was in my good books. Me being a huge, huge, and huge fan of John Lennon was more than enough for me to watch Danny Collins. Now Danny Collins is a movie which may quite easily become a guilty pleasure for any artist across any field. The first thing that came to my mind when I heard the idea of Unreliable Narrator from Olivia Wilde’s character in Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself was Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon.īefore Dan Fogelman wrote and directed Life Itself, and even before the fame of This is Us, I chanced upon his work Danny Collins.
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