![]() ![]() You can see how he changes, improves, and matures as the film, and his relationship with Germain, progresses. The same kid that wrote that, fairly, innocuous first essay isn't the same kid that ended up doing what he did. ![]() ![]() What I liked about the film is its approach to this mentoring, you can really see the change in Claude's approach to his story about desire in all the wrong places with each meeting he has with Germain. But this mentoring definitely affects the way the story progresses. This mentoring of Germain towards Claude is Germain's way to live vicariously through Claude's writing, as his own writing was never good enough, and also a way to have a father-son relationship as it's probably too late for him and his wife to have kids. I think this aspect actually works in favor of the film because it deals with Germain teaching Claude how to tell an effective story with compelling characters that have to overcome obstacles, offering criticism in order to improve Claude's storytelling abilities. The film is definitely very meta, but not in as over-the-top way as you'd see in other forms of entertainment that are very self-referential. Perhaps what I enjoyed most about the film was how subversive it truly is. This is an excellent suspense film with a surprising amount of laughs thrown in there. ![]()
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