Edmond

The deconstruction of a character in a movie is usually set over a time of days, in this film it's a matter of hours and moves right along. The movie itself is only an hour and twenty minutes but it moves so fast and so much happens that you don't realize that its only been a short amount of time. This film is inspired by the David Mamet play, and is so gritty and realistic that you could almost believe it was based on a true story.After being told by a fortuneteller that he should change his life, Edmond starts his quest but doesn't realize that it's a descent into his own personal Hell. The character of Edmond isn't pushed to the edge of the emotional cliff, he walks there freely thinking that is his destiny, and what a dark destiny it is. The style of the scenes are slap in the face realistic and believeable nothing is left to the imagination. Normally in movies we see the detruction of a character's life over time, days, weeks, months, years, but here everything happens in one night and runs the full spectrum of situations and emaotions.
This movie would be my suggestion to anyone learning to be an actor, the range of emotion that William H. Macy displays is exactly what most actors are striveing for in their craft. This is an interesting film with the twists and turns that in some cases are the extreme, but we can all identify with Edmond at one point or another. Hopefully none of us would go to the extremes that he does on his journey, hopefully I said, hopefully.