9th February 2008, 5:22 PM
Quote:What's the point in trying to explain something like that? Does it move the plot along? Does it provide some deeper understanding of the character or their actions? Does it somehow improve the overall product? The answer to those questions, minus the first one, is no, it does not. This is not a documentary, whose point would be to explain WHY the sun is dying. It is a movie about the FACT that the sun is dying. There's no reason to make up an obviousy phony reason for why this fact IS. "Oh, there is this...celestial particles...and something...obstructing the nuclear reaction...whatever."
It wouldn't work. Because all it would do is pull you out of the movie. Throwing out some theory as to what's going on would only act is target to direct your disbelief towards. "What did they say? There's no way something like that could happen! It defies all the knows we know to be true!!" and so on.
Because otherwise why should you believe the story? I know that the goal is to focus on characters, etc, but really, it is best to explain WHY...
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