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The Ticket
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.
Release : | 2016 |
Rating : | 5.4 |
Studio : | BCDF Pictures, Cave Pictures, Blackbird, |
Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Dan Stevens Malin Åkerman Kerry Bishé Oliver Platt Peter Mark Kendall |
Genre : | Drama |
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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Just saw this (Spoiler ALERT)....nothing else to rent so rented this one...figuring it was probably a chick flick. I give it 2.5-3 stars. Probably was deeper than what I saw it as. Not to spoil it for you but to give you the premise...you can go deeper into the movie if you would like....Guy is blind, guy miraculously gets his vision back, guy become successful by becoming greedy, guy looses family, in the end...well...guy. looses his eye sight again......you can put 2 and 2 together and see the human drama unfolding...not an action flick but human drama with a proverbial moral. Acting..GOOD, a solid 6.5 out of 10, production 5 out of 10.
That's what I conclude. So he marries a woman when he was blind, and then sees there is more attractive around. So he was stuck in his career, and sees how he gets promoted when he sees how to manipulate people with financial problems?Jesus, this movie calls up to God so many times, and the rhythm is really slow and boring.Every scene is so moralistic, so foreseeable. No wit in sight. Except the confrontation with his old blind job buddy in the café.Of course you would expect him to become blind again. At the beginning of the movie, you see him recovering light from the dark.At the end, I expected nothing but a black screen for 10 minutes I think the producers probably refused the intellectual idea, because the director's name wasn't Lars van Trier.Shame, it was a good project, and the acting of Dan Stevens was really brilliant, but he was very lonesome.
It's always sad to see good actors in badly made movies, and this is one of those. The story in itself isn't half bad, but there's simply too much to adequately cover in less than two hours. If every plot arc in this movie were made into a TV episode, it would be worth watching. As it stands, however, I found myself questioning the characters' common sense at best and IQ levels at worst.As for the ending: it's a blatant disregard of the ego; humans simply don't work that way. Just saying.
We all ask ourselves if given the chance would we reach out and grab that lottery ticket if given to us? The idea of everything being handed to us after enduring for so long. Ido Fluk and Sharon Mashihi understand this and perhaps manipulate this into greed and lust - Perhaps? "The Ticket" presents this question, but like most thought provoking questions - This film has no answer for you.Directed Ido Fluk, from a script written by Fluk and Sharon Mashihi. "The Ticket" stars Dan Stevens (The Guest) as James, a man blind from youth, with a comfortable life with his wife Sam (Malin Åkerman) and son Jonah (Skylar Gaertner). One day he regains his vision discovering he's not happy or contempt with his life - grabbing a promotion at work, leaves his wife for Jessica (Kerry Bishé) an employee where he works, and mistreating his friend Bob (Oliver Platt) one of James's blind co- workers.Dan Stevens as always is fierce and enigmatic as James. Stevens is careful not to have you sympathize with James and the choices he makes along the way - But to ponder on each choice and wonder what's driving him. See, like each character in "The Ticket" (And there aren't many) they all have something driving them - something they want. Sam is fine and happy with going dancing, rather than an eloquent restaurant. She's also tired and Malin shows this beautifully. James, however, wants more, and Stevens never slows down giving us a moment to blame James for his choices.Director Ido Flunk beautifully directs, with a unique visual flare centering around James's point of view. Where the film falls would be the predictability of its plot and lack of motivation for its characters."The Ticket" is a well made film with a deeply moving performance from Stevens.