Sunday, February 23 2003

Last night we saw the movie The man who wasn't there by the Cohen brothers. I think it was great, so go see it!

The movie is apparently filmed on color film stock — according to many online reviews I've read — and then transferred to black and white film. Nothing strange with that; our impression when renting the movie was that it indeed was supposed to be in black and white.

However, after we finished it the movie started over from the beginning, only this time it was in color. There were no notes on the video box about a second version of it so we kind of thought that this was part of the show; another version that would somehow give you another perspective of the story. We saw the the whole movie again — in color this time — waiting for something to happen, for something to be different from the first time. It never happened.

We looked up a bunch of reviews on the net to sort it all out. Apparently the real version of the movie is supposed to be black'n'white; one reviewer actually stated how horrible it would've been had the movie been filmed in full color. Well, we saw both versions, and I must say, it wasn't worse the second time! Waiting for something new to happen during the second watch gave a certain extra charm to the whole experience. We sure laughed a lot.