Talk:Reign Over Me

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Contents 1 Vandalism 2 what date is it? 3 SotC 4 My evaluation 5 Films about 9/11 6 Possible goof? 7 Opinion 8 Basic problems with Style and Grammar

[edit] Vandalism

I suggest we lock this page down for editing to only the registered user, as it was vandalised recently. The necessary corrections have been made and I believe this to be the correct next step.SAWGunner89 23:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] what date is it?

In the movie, I think the date -- according to the receptionist's calendar -- is "1/20/09". If I remember correctly, the calendar is always set to this date, even on different days. Did anyone else notice this? 76.167.32.127 18:21, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SotC

The game is a very very very much sub theme yet it takes up a large portion of the article which is reworded in the game's own article. Try and expand the other sections since the film is just coming out. Stabby Joe 11:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My evaluation

I am a middle-aged Jewish man living and working in New York City. I saw one of the Twin Towers fall, as it actually happened (on a live network feed at work). It knocked me for a loop.

I think New York City (and America as a whole) have struggled to be able to express their feelings about this incident.

Rage and despair! But how to express it? Americans have a unique outlook on the world. We care about ourselves, but also about our friends (personal and nationally) and even faraway strangers (in congenial cultures, but also exotic or strange ones).

This is Hollywood's multi-cultural (black and white), upper middle-class response. Americans pull together and help one another. Even the cops, faced with imminent death, did not just kill Charlie (thought they had every legal right to do so, when he aimed a gun at the first cop). The second cop could have shot him from an angle, but saved Charlie from himself by tackling him.

Americans don't want revenge as much as they simply want to stop the evil. --Uncle Ed 02:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk pages are not soapboxes for personal opinions, per talk page guidelines. I think you might find better dialogue at a place like the IMDb page for this film. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 02:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I guess you're right. My comment might not be as closely related to the task of improving this article as I thought. I value the input of others. --Uncle Ed 02:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries; I hope you can find other venues for discussing the film. I hope to see it myself eventually. If you'd like to continue improving the article, take a look at Featured Articles of films under WP:FA#Media and WikiProject Films' style guidelines. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 03:00, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Films about 9/11

I wouldn't really say that this film is about 9/11 (as is listed near the bottom of the page, "List of movies about 9/11"). Does 9/11 make a huge (the movie wouldn't be possible without it) impact on the film, yes. But I wouldn't say that it's about it, per se. Thoughts? Iansmcl 05:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible goof?

SPOILER

In the movie after the father has died an old man is at the dining table the morning after the funeral, is that the father or is it just a random character?

END SPOILER Iansmcl 05:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Not a goof, but an artifact of the film being edited down. That character is the Alan's brother, in town for the funeral. Several scenes with him and Alan were cut. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.92.44.77 (talk) 18:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Opinion

Torn from the love of his family, Charlie becomes depressed and shuts out all the pain with drumming, collecting old LP's and a 3-D video game where he must climb towering heights to destroy monsters. ("Monsters" destroyed New York's tallest towers and killed his family).

Wouldn't this be more of an opinion of the symbolism in the film? In my opinion, seeing the giants fall would just be reliving the day that the towers fell -- the fact that Charlie hasn't fully moved on from that day and he replays it over and over in his mind.Thebluetowel 22:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how much of our own opinions we're allowed to add to movie articles. If you think I went too far, take it out. --Uncle Ed 00:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Read Wikipedia's policy on having a neutral point of view. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 00:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

The symbolism is not the one listed above and the real symbolic meaning of the game is mentioned in the trivia section with a reference. Stabby Joe 12:48, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

The movie was visceral therapy for his father. That's when it hit Roush. Refusing to accept the death of loved ones. Seeking out an escape from that truth. Giants falling in slow motion. "You could see where someone who was dealing with 9/11 would be engrossed by a giant that keeps collapsing over and over again," he says.

Would that match the symbolism in the article? Thebluetowel 00:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Basic problems with Style and Grammar

This dreadful film seems to have attracted people with dreadful English. Someone appears to have written this summary while dashing for a train. Samples below:

Charlie uses noise-cancelling headphones ... to insulate himself from any contact or reminder of the upper middle-class world ...

[The word "with" is missing after "contact"]

Torn from the love of his family, Charlie becomes depressed and shuts out all the pain with drumming, collecting old LP's and a video game where he must climb towering heights to destroy monsters.

[... which sounds like he's collecting a video game along with the old LPs. And what's the apostrophe doing in the plural of LP? The author continues:]

("Monsters" destroyed New York's tallest towers and killed his family)

[Nothing like following up garbled grammar and syntax with a sweepingly bland "literary" observation!]

One day he finally opens up to Johnson (overheard by Dr. Oakhurst) and shares about his family.

[Shares what about his family? Plus the grammar makes it sound like it was Johnson (who remained silent during this scene) who was overheard.]

This seems good, but shortly thereafter ...

["This seems good"! James Joyce, come on down!]

Finally, Johnson conspires with Fineman to help him move out over the weekend ...

[So who is moving out? Johnson or Fineman?]

The girl Charlie falls for is named Donna, the same name is Adam's wife in Click.

[Either this should be "the same name as Adam's wife" or there should be a colon instead of the comma. In which case it should be "the same name is that of Adam's wife in 'Click'".]