Ohjaus:
Jill SprecherKuvaus:
Dick PopeSävellys:
Alex WurmanNäyttelijät:
Alan Arkin, Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, Barbara Sukowa, Elizabeth Reaser, William Wise, Frankie Faison (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
A man approaching middle age decides to change his life. A rising young attorney`s plans are thrown into disarray as the result of a single act. A woman faces her husband`s infidelity. An envious businessman seeks revenge on a cheerful coworker and an optimistic young cleaning woman awaits a miracle. Just the ebb and flow of daily New York life: chaotic, isolated, diffuse. Or is it? How can we know what effect we have on a passing stranger? What if the smallest gesture can change the course of someone`s life? Perhaps fate is in fact a product of the choices we make -how we choose to accept seemingly random events, whether or not we opt to see the interconnectedness of things. Perhaps, too, there really is a light at the end of the tunnel, even if we can`t see it yet. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
(lisää)Arvostelut (2)
A girl reassesses her attitude toward life after she is hit by a car and narrowly escapes death. Sitting behind the wheel of the car was a successful young man who, though a proud defender of the law, leaves the scene of the accident like a coward. However, his remorse shatters everything on which he had based the values of his life. An elderly man, with whom the young man had been talking in a bar just before the accident, searches in vain for the source of happiness in life... etc., etc. Cultivated, intelligent, visually spare dialogic philosophizing with a bit of irony and fatalism. Though 13 Conversations About One Thing is an enjoyable alternative to Hollywood light entertainment, it comes across as a futile attempt at “would-be independence” and thus lacks the credibility and sincerity of similar European films.
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A movie of short tales that follow the trials and tribulations of several people who are variously connected, influence each other and meet up randomly. This is “just" a dialog movie, but sometimes very pleasant and sometimes very depressing. While it works in the first half, it starts to become too lengthy in the second. Some of the tales complement some of the others, but all in all at least half of them come across just as filler. In the end it really is thirteen times more or less the same thing.
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