Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

January 2005 activity

Total Log Entries: 58

Total Comments: 19

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The Bourne Identity / USA / Germany / 2002

Jason Bourne is a vulnerable, emotionally distressed hero—these are his most evident traits, and, despite his agility and instincts, little he does is supernatural. His “past life” as an assassin provokes the film’s key action sequences (the sequel has a superlative car chase), but more dynamic is how he recovers from amnesia and discovers his strength; he looks at the pistol he prehended from one of the two Swiss policeman he beat up with surprise, tosses the weapon down, and runs away. Unfortunately, this aspect of the film is rendered more conventionally than the primary character: the viewer remains more informed of Bourne’s past than he (I refer to scenes early in the film of Bourne’s CIA operators, whom Bourne is unaware of until later in the film), when the film would be more engaging had Bourne’s revelations been shared simultaneously with the viewer.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal Studios DVD
23 Jan 2005 2:00 PM | Submit Comment

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