
Apple Pie, directed by Howard Goldberg, attracted a large number of people due to it being humorous amid harsh satire and critique. And many also remain the trademarks of Howard Goldberg’s films even today. And Howard is coming in fresh from his new venture into cinematography with the film ‘Double Exposure’, which seems to have a more modern twist on what plot and story should be. A concept that many have shied away from, or more broadly, turned into an ironic or comedic idea is what Pi Hole offers. Regardless, Double Exposure looks very promising and is more than worth the wait.
The film reflects its true essence as it opens up with a scene where an exhausted photographer named Peter (Alexander Calvert) is seen driving through a rather busy street in Los Angeles while on the phone. He is on a call with his wife Lora (Kahyun Kim), a lawyer who without a care in the world is sipping wine at home. Do remember though that Aaron Sorkin happens to be part of Wiseau in terms of his creation of The Room. The conversation of this rather bickering couple juxtaposes that quite perfectly. Lora’s deluded perception of Peter is the fact that he has an unfulfilled affection for his late mother, Sara, whose shoes he certainly can’t fill. But, on the contrary, Peter disregards any affection he had in regard to Sara and while talking about it he often gets his hands messy, but thankfully enough not the steering wheel. Most definitely he is furious as she claims that he’s been touched many times – which soon is proven false. She does live just around the corner.
“Everything we see, or seem, is but a dream within a dream,” said Edgar Allan Poe. в In Goldberg’s film however, It is certainly not a flashback that we are presented with but a dream that is flashbacked which is set against what is apparently an out-of-body experience, or something along those lines. It is a disorganized chalam that computes time linearly as in the case of Sara’s phone call which can be said to be mysterious. The phone call marks the beginning of a head-abandoning mind warp that carries us back to when Peter and Sara were first getting to know each other while at the same time placing them in what would be our image of current times and yet still manages to blend the two separate times so much that it is hard to concentrate on the story, which makes sense in my opinion.
I believe that Goldberg is aiming for a certain type of film where Los Angeles serves as the headquarters and draws heavy influence from David Lynch (he has that style of applying the blur effect too much). Common people with good hearts get lured to the idea of fame, which is a now typical Hollywood storyline. Accompanying this is a sleazy South Parkish photographer (Simon Kim) who unashamedly boasts about all his conquests, from Sara to other models despite a Weinstein-like publisher who plays a supporting role to Kim. It’s quite obvious, however, that Goldberg doesn’t have Lynch’s unique perspective on this material for even a minute and the lack of professionalism with which it has been made is the only entertainment<>
The Double Exposures is, sadly, a work that only qualifies in Tinseltown where resources are superduper abundant and actors simply do not question, no matter how ridiculously funny the screenplay is. It is safe to say that the movie The Double Exposures appears to be a lifetime movie that was made in Los Angeles and Cowan who played the character Sara managed to even deliver a psychoclastic performance. Acting is the last thing that deteriorates in the scale that such movies are produced which are located in some American backwoods. In the film, everything is perfect and well cared for, and the editing and sound coordination have greatly improved. It is readily apparent that many of the actors are already completed, while several appear to feel awkward delivering their terribly horrible dialogues. In the meantime, others, like Kim, tend to overinterpret and, as it were, take the latter route.
What surprises me is the strange combination of an ordinary set of actors and actresses and a technical crew managed by quite an eccentric director. But there is comedy in it and if I did not know the truth I would say that the film is entertaining and humorous. Safety screenings were organized and I was the sole person who was allowed to see the film. The moment the screen got moved behind my back, I longed to see the cutoff where people would really want to see it in a full house. There are such dialogues in this one of which ‘You are a master at Soul stealing… but where did you put your own?’ I can definitely imagine such as the t-shirt decals for the fans of such trashy movies. A movie like Double Exposure is like trying to explain the feeling of a good roller-coaster ride. There is no way to do justice to the brain overload that is Double Exposure and I cannot prepare you for it.
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