{"id":20639,"date":"2013-04-15T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=20639"},"modified":"2013-04-15T04:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T11:36:51","slug":"worst-thing-youll-see-all-week-trance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/15\/worst-thing-youll-see-all-week-trance\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst thing you&#8217;ll see all week: Trance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"20639\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/not_Ewan.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/not_Ewan.jpg\" alt=\"not_Ewan\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovelorn mindfucks aren&#8217;t what they used to be.  I mostly blame Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  Jesse Armstrong&#8217;s fiercely insightful The Entire History of You from the British series Black Mirror didn&#8217;t help (watch it before the mostly likely toothless American remake arrives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2013\/feb\/12\/robert-downey-jr-black-mirror\">courtesy of Robert Downey Jr<\/a>).  So it&#8217;s a bit late for Danny Boyle&#8217;s lightweight Trance, a mindfuck oddly jammed into a movie about an art heist by some lovable thugs.  Don&#8217;t read too much into the early torture scene.  It&#8217;ll pass.  The real substance of movie is after the fact, when hypnotist Rosario Dawson helps James McAvoy recover his memory about the $27 million stolen Goya he misplaced.  Oops.  The solution comes down to Dawson&#8217;s shaved pubic hair.  I&#8217;m not making that up.  It&#8217;s particularly disappointing that this is what we get when Boyle rejoins Shallow Grave and Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge.<\/p>\n<p>At least Boyle knows how to shoot dreamlike energetic sequences that weave and build and crescendo spectacularly.  The aforementioned reveal about Miss Dawson&#8217;s grooming, for instance.  Anthony Dod Mantle&#8217;s lurid realer-than-real supersaturated cinematography is as gorgeous as ever (you can see Mantle&#8217;s work most recently in Dredd).  And Trance has a sexy finale that makes me want to watch Boyle&#8217;s Sunshine again, which features fiery crescendos on a larger scale.  But Trance ends with an unsatisfying &#8220;gotcha!&#8221; resolution that does more to sell iPads than elicit a-ha&#8217;s.  Where&#8217;s my Eternal Sunshine DVD and Sunshine Blu-ray?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Worst thing you&#039;ll see all week: Trance - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/15\/worst-thing-youll-see-all-week-trance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Worst thing you&#039;ll see all week: Trance - 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