Watching the opening scene of Brian De Palma’s 1998 film Snake Eyes makes you realize that this motherfucker is trying very hard. We have 13 minutes of Nicolas Cage running around a very crowded set. The scene is clever with its camera, giving us multiple layers of exposition in the same time. Like there could be a TV on the foreground and Cage on the background. And they seem unrelated at first, but the scene establishes most of it’s plot details right in this very shot. And then the shot ends ( 13 minutes later ) at the exact moment, the script drops the “inciting incident”. De Palma is really trying hard to direct the shit out this movie.
Before you click on the blog, know this writer’s review of Fifth Element contained a lengthy ramble of their personal defense of pedophilia, not simply contextualizing it within the movie. They are also a self-declared supporter of Richard Stallman, an advocate for the legalization of child pornography and pedophilia.