After two years, John is still hasnt gotten over his wife. He still works for the Washington Post and his career there is better than ever. One night he decides to drive to Richmond, VA from Washington DC and he finds himself in Point Pleasant, WV in an hour and a halfs time (a trip that would have taken anyone about 6 or 7 hours). His car dies outside of someones house and he needs to use the phone. He gets into a strange misunderstanding with the owner of the house, Gordon, and a local police person named Connie escorts John from the house. John stays in a hotel and plans to leave the next morning after his car is fixed. He goes to pick up his car and the repairman tells him that there was nothing at all wrong with the car. John could not explain the strange events and he decides to stay and investigate, mainly because people in Point Pleasant are seeing what he believes his wife also saw. With the help of Connie and Gordon (who had the most contact with the Mothman (Indrid Cold)), John is able to learn of predictions of mass death. However, he becomes o
I also thought that in this movie, the angle shots were very important. This movie is about a creature that people see, but nobody knows what it is. It flies in the air, so it is perfect to have very high angles, that seem to move through air. There are countless arial shots in which it seems as though the viewer is hovering over the actors, or is flying through the air, mostly over the town and the bridge. It alludes to the thought that the Mothman is watching, for he is known to glide through the air. The angles also lead one to believe that he is mocking the towns people just by the fact that he is there while there is so much confusion.
Pellingtons 1997 Destination Anywhere is a bit different that the other two I watched. This movie was based off of Bon Jovis musical Album Destination Anywhere and Bon Jovi played the main character, Jon. This movie, briefly, is about a man down on his luck who lived in Manhattan, New York City, but ran away from his troubles. He is deep in debt from gambling and his marriage to his wife, Janie, is very troubled. His marital situation is made even worse by the fact that Janie (an emergency room nurse) is still grieving for their only son who died in a hit and run several years before. Jon had run away from all of of this, but for his wife, he decided to come back to this mess. However, he comes back to find his wife emotionally worse than when he had left and that he is more in debt (his wife had put them further into debt). He realizes, after all of the problems that Janie had caused him, that he needs to shut her out and set up walls to keep himself from having an emotional breakdown. Just when the relationship is hanging by a thread, a baby is found in dumpster at the hospital where Janie works and the couple take it in. Miraculously, this discovery ignites old love for the couple and they are able to work out their differences.
However good I felt the cinematography was, I was confused with the overall message that Pellington was trying to relate. The movie ended on a happy note, but the ending left questions unanswered that were not answered while I was watching the movie. Mostly, I was wondering through out the movie, Why did John need to go Point Pleasant I feel that the theme or themes to the movie were unclear, for John Cline was trying to answer the same question as myself and the themes of the movie seemed as though they were put on the back burner to answer this question. The only problem with that is that our question was never thoroughly answered and it just left me wondering and confused.
The second movie I viewed was Arlington Road, made in 1999. This movie is about a man named Michael Faraday who finds a young boy in the middle of the road going into shock from third degree burns. Michael takes the boy to the hospital and is later joined by the parents, who turn out to be living right across the street from Michael. The boys (Brady) parents, named Oliver and Cheryl Lang , befriend Michael and his girlfriend. His wife had died in an FBI raid that had gone wrong and Michael still hadnt gotten over her death and how the FBI had treated the death. Michael teaches a college level class on Terrorism in America, and incorporated (at one point) the FBI raid that his former wife was involved in. During the neighborly friendship, Brady and Michaels son, Grant, become best friends and Grant wants to be over at the Langs house all the time. Olivers behavior upsets and confuses Michael, so he decides to do some research about Oliver. He finds that Oliver is not his name, and that when he was 16, he tried to blow up a post office. Michael is very upset about this, so he does more research and finds that another person by the name of Oliver Lang from the same town died the day before the name change in a hunting accident. Furthermore, Michael feels that Oliver is planning a terrorist attack. Michael starts to become obsessed this and Oliver noti
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