Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

sol ***MAJOR SPOILER*** Going into a all night L.A convenient store to buy his girlfriend Sophie, Courteney Cox, a Hershey Bar Hugh, James LaGros together with the store owner and his son are cold-bloodily gunned down with their killer, Matthew Carey, taking off, dropping the cash as he flees, empty handed.It's now a few weeks later with Sophie teaching a course in photography at a local collage that she sees a slide-from one of her pupils-of the very same convenient store the very evening, almost to the moment, that Hugh was murdered in! Not only that she sees an obscure image of Hugh's, as well as the store owner and his son, killer! Going to the police to see what they can do in identifying, with state-of-the-art photo imaging, the killer Sophie is later shocked to find out that she was the person who took the picture! That when she at that very moment was sitting in her car at least 50 feet way from where the photo was taken!It's then that the movie "November" takes a sudden and paranormal turn in that we get to see the late Hugh and Sophie together with her feeling very guilty in cheating on him with her fellow photographer and good friend Jesse, Michael Ealy. We also get to see Sophie seeing a psychiatrist Dr. Fyan, Nora Dunn, about her guilt in Hugh's death! It's as if Sophie's cheating, not having him go into to store to buy her a chocolate bar, was the reason for his tragic death!The movie starts to get even weirder with Sophie not only having trouble with Hugh, in what is obviously a number of flash-backs, but her mother Carol, Anne Archer, as well. There's a number of scenes between Sophie and her mom that are repeated over and over mostly concentrating on her mom spilling a glass of wine on her dress as the two are dining in an L.A restaurant! The reason for that very bizarre scene becomes very evident in the last few minutes of the movie "November". ***SPOILER ALERT*** What also becomes crystal clear, to the audience as well as Sophie, as the movie grinds to an end is just where Sophie was at the time of Hugh's murder! And not only that but what Sophie's very guilt-ridden mind had been blocking out from her memory in what, if anything, she had to do with it!

chazz46-2 It is apparent that there is sufficient documentation that we humans "play the the tapes of our life" in very fast forward just prior to our death. This movie seems to allow for the ending of that comprehensive tape playing to resolve in final acceptance of the truth after what must be several permutations of fantasy and guilt-based wishful thinking. Rather than the long drawn-out subconscious (actually "final conscious")dreams as portrayed by the movie in the cadence of the living, this movie just accounts for a split second of "playing the tapes" before Sophie finally dies. I would have never guessed how those nanoseconds could have been captured by film art. In that sense, we the living, are given the opportunity to dissect out over an expanded time period that which actually occurs in an instant. We are thus given to appreciate how the senses of the living are tuned out of the dimension of time itself. Furthermore, this movie would suggest that how we handle truth is still wrapped in dream work even as we play our final tapes at our death.

psychorobotape OK i'm really baffled by all the high ratings. "Raging Bull", that was a good movie, "Ran" that was a good movie, if you want to compare it to other low budget indies try "Primer", that was a good movie (also won sundance and was made for $8000), "November" is the funniest movie i've seen since David Lynch's adaptation of "Dune". Here's why: First, the entire movie was shot in horrible studio build ups of really uncreative and poorly crafted stages. If there was one thing that was worse than this it was the lighting. I think they borrowed it from the set of "Full House". Aesthetically the movie was horrible and looked like a cheap television pilot. The actual film minus the credits has a runtime of about 70 minutes and that includes about 7 or 8 minutes of repeat footage. The premise was unoriginal and has been done many times before (see some of the other reviews for examples). The dialog was worse than the premise and the acting followed closely behind. But you can't really blame Courtney Cox because clearly she had to have thought she was still on the set of "Friends". She wandered around most of the time looking really confused probably because she couldn't figure out why David Schwimmer looked so much like James LeGros. But if you really want to be entertained watch the movie and then read some of the good reviews people have written here...."Courteney Cox is nothing short of excellent here"..."especially when sharing a scene with Cox, who acts circles around his one dimensional performance"...."The movie was flawless, intelligent, artsy etc.. I give it a 10!! I think it was a masterpiece!"....omg my side hurts.

dolph50 Well, I will admit is not the worse job I have seen done but they moved toward the mark. Shots are too long, too many empty staircases, unnecessary shots. I mean if you think you would like to take a nap while seeing it, that's the right movie for you. No matter how long the nap you won't miss anything important. Take my word for it. After the initial two minutes when the boyfriend (who she was cheating with another guy) is shot down there is nothing worth the pain. Jesus. My guess is they wanted to make something nobody's ever done. Maybe they did. Of course I am pretty sure they weren't counting on breaking a box office record. If there will be any box office sellout at all, which I doubt. Should have gone straight to video.