Nice film indeed with a lot of funny stuff and good meanings to be said. You'd feel sometimes that it was made by some people who lived all their life in love with (Humphrey Bogart)'s old movies as the sarcastic dusty typical detective of the 1940s, and now they saw themselves as too much of a viewer, too naive to be (Bogart) in real life. So they brought that sense of lost idealism, wished for heroism, and that desire to be movie makers, or even movie's leads, all on screen to answer the tricky question.. Where is Marlowe?!
There are some interesting and amusing points in that indie movie: The deep and uncomplicated script, the unique cinematography by video which's done by successful realistic taste; showing the scenes like true events, the idea of the blind seller as all the characters are blinded in a way; but the thing is who can see that about himself to admit it and then fix it?, the idea of their first documentary about "Water"; it's everyone's experiment, as those 2 well-meaning artists are still so childish and without experience yet, and also as pure as distilled water; in fact, they needed all the time to distill something out of their life which was simply empty, and not to distill something out of the other's; namely detective (Joe Boone) without being in his shoes, or having his own tribulations!
(Boone) was right when he told them how lousy and boring their first movie was. Because there is no actual thing was happening; it's tasteless as water. However, when they were right in the middle of a hot one; that was really moving. So he told them clearly the advice of: "Don't be behind that camera too long, or most of the time". Because afterwards, it becomes such a barrier to feel things, to live the fact, and to make your own point of view, your own original copy of the truth!
I also loved the acting which was very simple to a truthful extent, with couple of naive blinded kids and one clever humble private "eye", who discovered after all that they were in want of each other to learn more about life, and how to look at it to find what they really want.
So, the lesson is: before you show life, you must live it first. And maybe it's some kind of message that aims for any young artist out there, or anyone who thinks that they had all the facts from their only conceited perspective. Hence, "Where is Marlowe?!", well.. He's not in the movies only for sure. And he is in our own selves, but who has wide-open eyes to see him, and be that lively to bring him out as well; since (Sam Spade), (Philip Marlowe), or any other imaginary idealistic hero--are possible. They come initially from the factual life, and such a struggling human experience.
There are some interesting and amusing points in that indie movie: The deep and uncomplicated script, the unique cinematography by video which's done by successful realistic taste; showing the scenes like true events, the idea of the blind seller as all the characters are blinded in a way; but the thing is who can see that about himself to admit it and then fix it?, the idea of their first documentary about "Water"; it's everyone's experiment, as those 2 well-meaning artists are still so childish and without experience yet, and also as pure as distilled water; in fact, they needed all the time to distill something out of their life which was simply empty, and not to distill something out of the other's; namely detective (Joe Boone) without being in his shoes, or having his own tribulations!
(Boone) was right when he told them how lousy and boring their first movie was. Because there is no actual thing was happening; it's tasteless as water. However, when they were right in the middle of a hot one; that was really moving. So he told them clearly the advice of: "Don't be behind that camera too long, or most of the time". Because afterwards, it becomes such a barrier to feel things, to live the fact, and to make your own point of view, your own original copy of the truth!
I also loved the acting which was very simple to a truthful extent, with couple of naive blinded kids and one clever humble private "eye", who discovered after all that they were in want of each other to learn more about life, and how to look at it to find what they really want.
So, the lesson is: before you show life, you must live it first. And maybe it's some kind of message that aims for any young artist out there, or anyone who thinks that they had all the facts from their only conceited perspective. Hence, "Where is Marlowe?!", well.. He's not in the movies only for sure. And he is in our own selves, but who has wide-open eyes to see him, and be that lively to bring him out as well; since (Sam Spade), (Philip Marlowe), or any other imaginary idealistic hero--are possible. They come initially from the factual life, and such a struggling human experience.