Comments on: Heaven Anti-Climactic? http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/01/heaven-anti-climactic/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:15:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Craig Kennedy http://blog.spout.com/2008/07/01/heaven-anti-climactic/#comment-107547 Craig Kennedy Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:21:15 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=3249#comment-107547 First of all, thanks for steering me towards Finishing Heaven in the first place Karina and I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to follow up with Heaven Wants Out. I almost didn't go to see it because I worried that it would change how much I liked the documentary. I haven't decided yet if it has. On one hand, it doesn't really change the themes of the documentary. It's still about a guy who puts so much importance into one act, he's frozen by the fear that the one act will prove to be a failure. It's the fear that counts, not the eventual success or failure. One of the most powerful moments for me in the doc was Feinberg's realization that, no matter what, it was just a movie and that he should've just finished it. If it bombed, he could've moved on to something else, but by not finishing it, it weighed him down for almost 4 decades. The other moment was Ruby's realization when she looked back at herself in 1970 of how beautiful she was. Regardless of whether the film had been finished, I wonder how her life would've been different if she'd realized it back then. First of all, thanks for steering me towards Finishing Heaven in the first place Karina and I’m sorry you didn’t get a chance to follow up with Heaven Wants Out.

I almost didn’t go to see it because I worried that it would change how much I liked the documentary. I haven’t decided yet if it has.

On one hand, it doesn’t really change the themes of the documentary. It’s still about a guy who puts so much importance into one act, he’s frozen by the fear that the one act will prove to be a failure. It’s the fear that counts, not the eventual success or failure.

One of the most powerful moments for me in the doc was Feinberg’s realization that, no matter what, it was just a movie and that he should’ve just finished it. If it bombed, he could’ve moved on to something else, but by not finishing it, it weighed him down for almost 4 decades.

The other moment was Ruby’s realization when she looked back at herself in 1970 of how beautiful she was. Regardless of whether the film had been finished, I wonder how her life would’ve been different if she’d realized it back then.

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