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The first-person perspective could be viewed as a brave experiment or a case-study of why nobody EVER makes movies this way. Three points:<br /><br />1) In a movie, we like to see the main character reacting.<br /><br />2) Actors look self-conscious when endlessly talking to a camera.<br /><br />3) The lack of edits makes many scenes tedious.<br /><br />Still, you can admire how hard all this was to stage and shoot, in a age when cameras weighed a ton, made too much noise and nobody owned a Steadicam. Reminds me of the kind of crazy gimmicks Hitchcock sometimes tried but Hitch would have never let the train go this far off the tracks. |