Director: Bruce McDonald
Last few weeks, i've only got around to watching some of the worst movies ever made, including the Christina Ricci starrer Prozac Nation which i had high hopes for, yet turned out to be quite a torture. Bad acting, bad editing, bad everything, put together like a hastily made salad, without the dressing.
Now i really didn't want to write about something i've watched ages ago, like i've been doing the last few times. The Tracey Fragments was probably the only one that i've watched recently that deserved to be written about. It isn't a great movie, but it's well made. A bit confusing though. The director tries the muddled up time line thing, but everybody can't attempt a Tarantino or a Alejandro Gonzalez & manage to pull it off.
The style is interesting though, the screen broken up into several fragment, brilliant editing work. Imagination & reality merging together, at the end you have to work it out as to what was real & what wasn't. There will be bit & pieces that you will have to work on putting together, but if you are the kind who can watch something without being too stingy & questioning about anything & everything, then it's all right. It's the overall image that you are left with that explains this film, like the name suggests, whatever is shown are just fragments & they aren't put together at the end, as you would expect of it.
Ellen Page is good as usual, not as good as Juno i suppose, but she does fine. The others just don't have too much to do.
Overall the movie has a very artsy kind of feel, but is in fact not that high strung if you are used to watching stuff like that. I'd give it a 6 upon 10 maybe. Watch it if you want something to make you feel like you're watching some highly intellectual stuff & yet not want to stress your intellect too much.
