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'Chronicle' Built on Clichéd Premise but Shows Promise
Max Landis goes with the hackneyed perspective of handheld camera, but still displays "wild cinematic imagination," says Dave.
Chronicle offers up yet another cinematic instance of on-screen characters using handheld cameras to advance a storyline. We saw it first in 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, and it continued with this winter’s The Devil Inside. When first unveiled, this technique was an original idea, but now, the dizzying effect of actors filming things is just another Hollywood cliché. Filmmakers, let’s ban the handheld cameras. In this movie , three high school friends wander off into the woods from a party. They discover a sinkhole and contract telekinetic (the parapsyphological ability to move objects without touching them) powers by touching a rock/ice-like substance they find down there. Telekinesis first appeared on film in 1968’s The Power, …
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Dave Wilson
1:50 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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