PLEASE HELP!! I understand NOTHING about this movie
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onebadace — 14 years ago(February 25, 2012 11:54 PM)
What did he make too easy? You look like a moron. Ciao? LOL. Alrighty then. Keep watching the same movie over and over again while not understanding it. Idiot.
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Echo_in_big_sky — 14 years ago(February 26, 2012 04:10 AM)
Glad to help you feel better about yourselves.
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jorgito2001 — 17 years ago(June 11, 2008 06:30 AM)
Careful admitting thatpeople here in IMDB will call you an "idiot" for not understanding "good cinema".
I can't beleive the guy that brought us GREAT films like Scarface & Carlito's Way directed this. His recent movies like Black Dahlia, Snake Eyes (to a degree) and of course, Mission Impossible 1 are all made up of "plot twists"to the point where the movies are almost incoherent.
I actually voted Black Dahlia a 2/10and that's because the ACTING was good. The movie is literally a "throw away" and there's nothing memorable about it.
Once is enough for me.
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jordan-r — 17 years ago(June 14, 2008 07:52 PM)
the idea of Black Dahlia being bad in comparison to Scarface and Carlito's Way is kinda funny. And the "plot twists" are inconsequential. Black Dahlia and Snake Eyes both made perfect sense to me the first time I saw them.
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kharley471 — 14 years ago(November 25, 2011 10:44 AM)
The film is based upon James Ellroy's novel The Black Dahlia, a well written but inaccurate source for the real crime upon which it is based.
My understanding is that over an hour of material was cut from De Palma's movie, which affected its comprehensibility. However, my fault was not that I found it hard to understand, but that the mystery is "solved" in such a clumsy manner. However, that is my issue with Ellroy, not De Palma.
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Husskade — 14 years ago(December 27, 2011 10:27 AM)
And I think you explained that succinctly.
Short answer..read the book.it actually is worth the time.By the way.I'm not being flippant or rude to you,it will make more sense if you readarguably a sad reflection on the film which looks fabulous but..
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Husskade — 14 years ago(January 20, 2012 09:18 AM)
Can I just point out that the 'Black Dahlia' was not James Ellroy's mother.
His mother was murdered when he was young, a case which remains unsolved and is something that traumatised him hugely and led to serious illness for him.
It is argued that he became obsessed with Elizabeth Short's murder (Black Dahlia)which happened before he was born because of his mother's unsolved murder.
And he has said that he's been writing about it ever since.
Thus the book is arguably an imagined explanation of the 'why' what happened to Elizabeth Short happened and then the film of the book was made..(and arguably they rushed the end soo much that it confuses people.)
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gateandgarden — 17 years ago(June 16, 2008 05:03 PM)
I was drawn to this board because I came to IMDB today to see if I could find someone who could answer just this particular question for me.
I sat up until after 2:00 am watching this movie (taking full advantage of my free movie preview weekend on Directv), and I thought that maybe it was because of the late hour and my semi-exhausted state that I wasn't getting it.
I am going to go back and give it another go. I set up my DVR just in case I had fallen asleep in the middle of the movie. Maybe in the light of day it will make sensealthough I'm not holding out too much hope on that. It's a shame. I've always found the Dahlia case to be very interesting, but it seemed like it was just in the background here.