'The Captive'

This is a dumb film and any movie inspired by Proust is probably going to be some inane, wandering foreign film with no real plot, message or even if it has no point, it feels like it's trying to make a point without doing it. Like the film's too cool to make a point. But if it wanted to, it would.

Nothing against Proust, however. I just don't think everyone is John Grisham or Nick Hornby where you can just transcribe their words to film.

I love this quote from the film's IMDB page:

"This movie doesn't try to tell you what to think or feel about its characters; there is none of the contrivances so common in American movies, none of the manipulation."

Fucking Americans! With their contrivances of telling audiences what to think about their characters. As if in every American film there's a narrator. Like Morgan Freeman in "Shawshank Redemption" coming in and saying, "Oh, by the way, you like Andy Dufresne. He's really a good guy."

What a douchey, non-American thing to say. And to think that same person made the admission that he/she actually hadn't read Proust. Let me tell you something, you're not allowed to review films on IMDB, use the word "contrivance" or bash American filmmaking unless you've read Proust. Asshole. We were responsible for "BASEketball" for crying out loud!