:(. Love Is Strange is a 2014 French-American romantic drama film directed by Ira Sachs. Obviously I don’t think this is the creators’ intent, but it plays to a cliché we could do with less of.
Feel free to send me any info that I left out or mixed up). It can’t change the fun hours I spent coming up with theories as to what really happened to Rachel Amber.
So I’ve been playing Love is Strange, a Life is Strange-inspired visual novel, and I really enjoy it. I mean, the ending was great but then it just fades to black like in all other chapters, no "years later" or anything like that. When Nathan pulls out the gun and fires the shot, all you can do is look at the floor and cry. Well, we’re not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. Even when I hated episode 5, I cherished having the opportunity to experience something like it. Pick Rachel. Get “Run Away With Me,” “Falling,” “Take Me to Church,” “Addicted to You,” “Wildest Dreams,” “Californication,” “Crosses,” and “Cliff’s Edge.”. Murder. This set-up is not unique to the Mr. Jefferson segments. But more importantly: A game is more than an ending. (Spoiler alert: if you have not seen Ira Sachs's wonderful new film, Love Is Strange, read no further, lest the ending be spoiled for you! Storytelling is absolutely a collaborative art form between the artist and the audience - the only stories that don't allow for the audience's participation are those that deeply insult and underestimate the audience's intelligence. © "Love Is Strange" is not showily directed, and yet there are touches throughout that help ground us in the characters' inner lives. Even worse than both of those ideas combined. Even episode five has a lot going for it if you ignore its closing minutes. If you choose Arcadia Bay, the game seemed to say, then I’ll believe you that it wasn’t all for show. It’s over rather quickly, which is strange, considering that moments before, Chloe was trying to convince you to save the town. I chalked the “going back to the first rewind” ordeal as the beginning of the game’s butterfly effect, so by not taking part in it you never started the “ripple”, so to speak. I played every episode; I got emotionally invested in all the dopey and lovable citizens of Arcadia Bay.

The saga of Teen Girl Selfie Simulator came to a close this week, and it’s been quite a trip. The film was also screened in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. (Work in progress, obviously. How does the game go from that...to making you play awful stealth sections in episode five? When searching for the box, say you don’t want to search for it without her. It felt like such a crappy GOTCHA! Even a classic like System Shock 2 has a final cutscene that’s hilariously out of sync with the rest of the game's tone, and their somewhat underwhelming conclusions don’t stop Knights Of The Old Republic or Half-Life 2 from earning their place on lists of the best games ever. George is a Catholic school music teacher, and when word of the marriage reaches the archdiocese, he is fired. It's this respect for the audience's participation that makes the ending of Love Is Strange so sublime and effective. God, do I love Hawt Dog Man. Bored watching the same stuff over and over again? Make Rachel feel like you think she’s perfect, ask about all of the graffiti around campus, and tell her that she can’t be everyone’s muse on Thursday. Victoria and Max hold hands in the Blackwell courtyard, Rachel and Max hold hands in Rachel’s room, Kate and Max hold hands next to the Blackwell courtyard fountain, I have no idea what this is or how it unlocked, A photo of Juliet and Dana sharing an intimate moment, Chloe and Rachel make out next to an unconscious Max I mean, I liked a lot about that section of the game...but man. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid. Max learns that sometimes a teenage girl needs to die to prevent climate change or something, and the world would be better off if she literally curled up in a ball and did nothing. And it can’t change how much I love Hawt Dog Man. We’ll never know. And it's even less the film's fault that it can't compete with Make Way for Tomorrow: if we were to throw out every film that wasn't as good as Make Way for Tomorrow, we'd be left with only several dozen movies from the entire span of cinema history.

At the very least, I wanted to hear their voices one last time. The previously dickish spoilt bully Nathan Prescott left a voicemail that was surprisingly touching. Choose the location for the photo with Chloe. This is a place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. It’s touching. Storytelling is absolutely a collaborative art form between the artist and the audience. Dressed in black, you watch as the casket is lowered into the ground. That would still require a massive time jump! Ending 1 - Sacrifice Chloe. Don’t ditch class with Rachel.

It's respect for the audience's participation that makes the ending of Love Is Strange so sublime and effective. Lake County Film Festival Film Spotlight: Love is Not Love, directed by Stephen Keep Mills. Heartbreak. Jody is that guy who will try to convince you to play some indie game you've never heard of with a name like Extreme Meatpunks Forever. I had rewound time to help so many of the people living in Arcadia Bay. [11], Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association, "Panorama 2014: Selection of Fictional Features for Main Programme and Panorama Special Now Complete", "Alonso Duralde at Sundance: Gay Marriage Comes to Utah, and Michael Fassbender Gets a Head", "2014 Favorites With Keith Uhlich (Part 2)", "DFW Film Critics name 'Birdman' as top film of 2014", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Love_Is_Strange_(film)&oldid=982128725, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 09:53. The game does that thing where it captures the hero and makes the bad guy explain every single part of his evil plan. Read the script. The film has a "Certified Fresh" score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 176 reviews, with an average rating of 7.73/10. The film had its premiere in the non-Competition programme of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It's respect for the audience's participation that makes the ending of Love Is Strange so sublime and effective. Still partnered but missing each other, Ben and George find ways to spend time together, as all parties involved deal with the happenstance of an additional person living in a space designed for fewer people. Or at least, this is a popular sentiment among the Life is Strange fandom, which has taken to comparing both of the endings.

Just like everyone guessed, Max ends up using Warren’s picture to travel back in time. I just spent 12 paragraphs bitching about the ending, I know. It didn’t feel like the “right” answer.

Well, we were right to worry.