It's unlikely that any show or movie is filmed with time jumps inherently in mind. Typically, the filming process occurs in chronological order. Time jumps are introduced during the editing phase, a creative decision made when the powers that be feel the story is weak. This approach is similar to editing disparate action scenes together, often done to enhance the overall impact. In the case of the mentioned mini-series, where the story and acting were strong, the decision to incorporate time jumps is perplexing as it seemingly detracted from the overall experience, impacting the otherwise positive qualities of the series.
Reviews
3 Reviews
The Accountant
(2016)
I liked it
8 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I liked the movie but had some strange stuff in it where they tried to do a movie checklist I guess. 3 things I'll point out.
1. You can't make accounting "fun", there's a part where he's looking at the books for the last 15 years of a huge company and you know they try to "eye of the tiger" the scene, making numbers look fun with up beat music and such. C'mon be realistic... We all know accounting isn't fun, you can't fool the audience when it comes to that, that scene could have been better handled and still make the guy look like he's amazing at his job.
2. The female love interest was handled very poorly. Made women look desperate and needy, willing to change their views on stuff to align with the males view. She can clearly see something is wrong with the guy but continues to put herself down to impress him even tho she can tell he's no good for her. It was just a really weak portrayal of the female psyche.
3. Last scene that bugged me is that at the end they tried to do a "The moral of the story" scene where an autistic woman is a pen-pal to the lead character. The scene is trying to say if you have an autistic child, that they can still lead a semi-normal life but the scene has a child wondering in to a room in a house of autistic children and there is an older woman there laying on a bed (I guess her and the main character remained friends from a 2 minute scene from when they were children shot earlier in the movie) and when the boy enters the room the woman goes in to a fit, the parents walk in and are disturbed by what's happening and then the "doctor" walks in and says it's ok, she communicates by machine and then cuts back to the autistic woman typing on a computer, writing to the main character. It was just a stupid and totally unnecessary scene that made zero sense. "Your child can live a normal life" and their example is a woman who lives in a "nursing home" that lays in bed all day, goes in to fits whenever she is in contact with anyone but have no fear, she can correspond with a sociopath on a computer, whoop-de-doo dum dum dum.
Again, I liked the movie but it seemed like there were 2 different creative styles going in to it and it didn't blend well together.
1. You can't make accounting "fun", there's a part where he's looking at the books for the last 15 years of a huge company and you know they try to "eye of the tiger" the scene, making numbers look fun with up beat music and such. C'mon be realistic... We all know accounting isn't fun, you can't fool the audience when it comes to that, that scene could have been better handled and still make the guy look like he's amazing at his job.
2. The female love interest was handled very poorly. Made women look desperate and needy, willing to change their views on stuff to align with the males view. She can clearly see something is wrong with the guy but continues to put herself down to impress him even tho she can tell he's no good for her. It was just a really weak portrayal of the female psyche.
3. Last scene that bugged me is that at the end they tried to do a "The moral of the story" scene where an autistic woman is a pen-pal to the lead character. The scene is trying to say if you have an autistic child, that they can still lead a semi-normal life but the scene has a child wondering in to a room in a house of autistic children and there is an older woman there laying on a bed (I guess her and the main character remained friends from a 2 minute scene from when they were children shot earlier in the movie) and when the boy enters the room the woman goes in to a fit, the parents walk in and are disturbed by what's happening and then the "doctor" walks in and says it's ok, she communicates by machine and then cuts back to the autistic woman typing on a computer, writing to the main character. It was just a stupid and totally unnecessary scene that made zero sense. "Your child can live a normal life" and their example is a woman who lives in a "nursing home" that lays in bed all day, goes in to fits whenever she is in contact with anyone but have no fear, she can correspond with a sociopath on a computer, whoop-de-doo dum dum dum.
Again, I liked the movie but it seemed like there were 2 different creative styles going in to it and it didn't blend well together.
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