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I just got out of Irish Lit., where we 40 intrepid souls have spent the past two hours watching Odd Man Out, a 1947 film by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thelauderdale's favourite director Carol Reed (The guy who did The Third Man). God, that man adores weird camera angles. He's got a pretty depressing outlook on things, too, based on the two movies of his I've seen.
Plot synopsis: Johnny McQueen is injured in an IRA raid gone wrong and spends aproximately 73 billion hours wandering around Belfast bleeding to death while the London Symphonic Orchestra plays dreary and/or dramatic music in the background and his girlfriend, IRA buddies, and the police all search for him.
It's actually a pretty good movie, but it was frustrating to watch numerous random people fail to help Johnny, and see his IRA buddies commit suicide via extreme stupidity. It all ends happily, though. His girlfriend catches up to him, and they get to be shot to death by the police together.
thelauderdale's favourite director Carol Reed (The guy who did The Third Man). God, that man adores weird camera angles. He's got a pretty depressing outlook on things, too, based on the two movies of his I've seen.Plot synopsis: Johnny McQueen is injured in an IRA raid gone wrong and spends aproximately 73 billion hours wandering around Belfast bleeding to death while the London Symphonic Orchestra plays dreary and/or dramatic music in the background and his girlfriend, IRA buddies, and the police all search for him.
It's actually a pretty good movie, but it was frustrating to watch numerous random people fail to help Johnny, and see his IRA buddies commit suicide via extreme stupidity. It all ends happily, though. His girlfriend catches up to him, and they get to be shot to death by the police together.