Secret Window (Film): Reaction ---> NY Times Magazine Review

After reading the New York Times Magazine review I realized that I couldn't have said it better myself. Elvis Mitchell, publisher of the review, stated in the opening sentence that, "If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp". This is so true because after viewing the film and reading that quote I thought to myself, "wow, who else could I have really imagined taking on the character as Mort Rainey better than Johnny Depp did himself"?, and I couldn’t think of anyone. Johnny Depp's style of acting in the film which was not too much or too little, along with his average / sophisticated / low-key appearance made him the perfect fit for the role of Mr. Rainey. Now when analyzing the actual product of the film, the transitions between scenes and the movie as a whole moved at a very slow rate as Mitchell stated, "''Window'' has been opened up to let too much air into the room, and the sluggish pacing will allow even the drowsiest viewer to keep up with the story". This was because the pace of the movie had to be moderated to fit the mood where as Mitchell describes the "little intrigue the movie has comes from Mort's shattered self-esteem". Being that the film reflected Mort's personality and his emotions towards all he has been faced to deal with, as well as the fact that he is pretty much mentally-ill, the NY Times review summed up in the story in a nut shell just as I would have.

*Link: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A07E5DB133EF931A25750C0A9629C8B63