Theater Whore: Too Late

Too Late 8/10

The second movie I saw with Camille was one she suggested called Too Late. Again, I didn't know what it was about, who was in it, or what it even looked like. I knew the guy on the poster looked familiar and it turned out that it was John Hawkes. I knew him from that sad ass movie Winter's Bone. Its hard to describe quite what this movie is about. It starts at one place that you think is the beginning, moves to a spot that may be the end, but then the ending is around the actual middle of time. Its confusing but still worked well.

Hawkes is a private investigator named Sampson. He gets a call from a girl named Dorothy played by Crystal Reed who is in the hills in L.A and takes some drugs from these two guys and ends up getting assassinated by a park ranger. Its strange. But the movie then goes to another segment with this super unhappy woman and her older husband played by Robert Forster that cheats on her with a stripper. Then there is another aspect that involves some family stuff that I won't spoil because I want you all to check this movie out.

This movie is said to have been shot in five 22 minute segments with no cuts. You can tell that there were a few parts where if this were shot like a regular movie with cuts every few seconds that they would have gone with another take. Like, the chick playing Dorothy had a few scenes where her acting was a bit off and you know another take could've been done but if you are 10 minutes into a scene and someone messes up you do not wanna do it all over again. This was still a good movie and shot in L.A in a way I'd never seen before using really far away zooms and split screens.

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