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A review of the movie Nancy, Always at the Tribeca Film Festival by Joseph Jagde
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A review of the movie Nancy, Always at the Tribeca Film Festival |
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The setting of this film is Yale University and the surrounding areas and the central character is Paul, a seemingly budding professor whose next step on the way up is his dissertation for his PhD as he is already teaching courses to Yale Undergrads. Initially he seems like the typical riser with nice combination of skills, talent and placement. However as we see him at first aptly teaching his class, a student asks a foreboding question, what is his policy towards incompletes. He responds that there better be some real good reasons for it, but the question becomes foreboding to him and his character within the movie. He himself is facing a deadline on his dissertation and the woman faculty member guiding him is making a big push to see some progress and results now. In the meantime, he has set up house or an apartment with girlfriend Jane who at some levels is accommodating but is not going to have either unlimited patience or sympathy as the events unfold. The movie comes around the bend as a dark comedy with some elements of horror, although not enough to turn off the moviegoer who is bit faint about horror. Suddenly, as he needs to face some music, Paul responds in the panic mode that this set of notes in a book on ‘Dickens that he left at his former roommate's house is critical to going forward on this dissertation and seemingly his whole good future. His Yale professor buddy, Charlie another up and comer who seems to be the real deal and the voice of reason through out the movie, says why don't you reconstruct your notes and logically someone who has gotten this far should be able to lean on the ability to do this. To get these notes however becomes a major premise on the movie as Fright Night appears in the character of his former roommate Nancy who has access to whatever he left behind in the move and isn't budging. Once the movie turns in this direction, you might say the logical thing to do is give up and sidestep Nancy who is as spooky as they get All he wants in the notes and the book and he will avoid Nancy for the duration. As he becomes ever more determined to get these notes, there is forming evidence that he is getting into a give up mode on other important areas in his single minded quest for these notes. It seems like not getting these special notes, means that all his competence for everything will go by the wayside. This is where the psychology of Paul's character is quite interesting and might havfe some universal aspects. Do people who have these great goals and single minded pursuits, go after them so wholeheartedly that if the goals start to slip away, they go into a give up mode on just about everything else and there forms these all or nothing mentalities towards trying for other things or keeping other important things up and running and humming along okay. Paul has deemed getting these notes utterly important and if he can't get them, it almost seems not only this dissertation but everything else is over and simply down the drain. And he does have too big of a mountain to climb in the obstacle of Nancy, or so it seems. Will he proceed even as things get more tenous or what should he do? But can his sensible girlfriend, his buddy Charlie, or his remaining sense keep him away from Nancy at all costs or is he going to enter this scary world just to get notes for his dissertation? In a larger sense, this movie does poke a little fun on the side about how academia might take itself a bit too seriously and also how the nightmare of the incomplete at a prestigious university can extend to the other nightmares if not checked up front and persona at the get go in some way, whether it be through reason, caution, humor, listening to good council of friends or otherwise. The movie seems to ask, if sometimes the best move of the chessboard is to give up on some keen quests and keep some sanity and drive up for others things that also matter and that maybe it is a bit dangerous to have what is perceived as all encompassing goals that are going to have to high a price to pay in more ways than one.
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