I am always up for a good thriller. The problem with this one is that it seriously breaks the proverbial Fourth Wall. A big chunk of the action takes place in the head of a coma victim, though the viewer does not find out until near the end of the film.
Creativity is a good thing, but a degree of plausibility must be present in order for a thriller to succeed. In this case, we know from the actions of the Filippo Timi character that he is prone to anger. Would he just ¨let it drop¨ when he finds out that he has been duped--seduced, and more seriously, nearly murdered in the process? I do not believe so. A very different sort of character might have walked away, but the early scene of him treating another woman horribly would have had to be omitted to make the ending at all plausible.
Another plausibility problem for La doppia ora is that the coma dreams are *of* the coma victim. Do people dream of themselves in that sort of third-person way? Or are not the subjects of a dream usually the dreamer herself, in which case none of the dream sequences should have shown anything but others from her perspective, unless of course she happened to be looking in a mirror.
Creativity is a good thing, but a degree of plausibility must be present in order for a thriller to succeed. In this case, we know from the actions of the Filippo Timi character that he is prone to anger. Would he just ¨let it drop¨ when he finds out that he has been duped--seduced, and more seriously, nearly murdered in the process? I do not believe so. A very different sort of character might have walked away, but the early scene of him treating another woman horribly would have had to be omitted to make the ending at all plausible.
Another plausibility problem for La doppia ora is that the coma dreams are *of* the coma victim. Do people dream of themselves in that sort of third-person way? Or are not the subjects of a dream usually the dreamer herself, in which case none of the dream sequences should have shown anything but others from her perspective, unless of course she happened to be looking in a mirror.