House of Dynamite's main issue is that instead of being a 'feature length film', it should have been a 20-minute short film that followed each of the so many characters they wanted to follow and you could toggle between which person you wanted to follow.
But yes, after the first 'reset' you know the ending. Or that is to say you know the ending is open and what the movie is asking you. Leaving you more to focus on the information that is to come and see how the other characters handle the moral question. The first round is technical, the second is procedural, and the third is moral -- the order in which we experience crises. By the time you hit the third act reflects the way these events are "looked back on," as if it's already past and we're judging the characters the same way we would expect them to have known what we did not know in Act 1, and to have acted better than we have acted in Act 2. To me this is very smart, and there's no meaningful way to judge this movie by its ending.
House of Dynamite's main issue is that instead of being a 'feature length film', it should have been a 20-minute short film that followed each of the so many characters they wanted to follow and you could toggle between which person you wanted to follow.
But yes, after the first 'reset' you know the ending. Or that is to say you know the ending is open and what the movie is asking you. Leaving you more to focus on the information that is to come and see how the other characters handle the moral question. The first round is technical, the second is procedural, and the third is moral -- the order in which we experience crises. By the time you hit the third act reflects the way these events are "looked back on," as if it's already past and we're judging the characters the same way we would expect them to have known what we did not know in Act 1, and to have acted better than we have acted in Act 2. To me this is very smart, and there's no meaningful way to judge this movie by its ending.
Love the short film idea, would have much preferred that!
Totally agree on HoD and Weapons.