Berto Altman

Robert Altman has pretty interesting directing style I feel that through much of the films he merely leads you through the plot. He in effect doesn't command you to watch something, he more so suggests things to look at. That's really confusing, but then again so are his movies. Like say in Nashville, he constantly jumps from one character to the other. At first this leaves you wondering if there is something that connects them all, but then because they all seem so disconnected this idea soon vanishes. Not only is his "free flowing camera" really confusing, but so is he use of dialog, or trialog as I'm going to call it because there is never just two people talking, we tend to hear other conversations or people talking on top of the characters shown in the frame. I didn't understand where he was coming from with The Player. He really didn't seem like the murder mystery type from his first two movies, but alas a creative mind can never be truly understood.