Just saw "The Ledge". I liked the beginning a lot more than the progressive path through the movie. In the end, I enjoyed the cinematography more than the plot.
As I'm writing this, I don't know the name of the city it takes place in, but I thought it was a good city for the scapes that were included, particularly the open shot at the very start of the movie. The setup between the very religious husband and the 'sadder but wiser' neighbor and central character is a comparison of stereotypes. There are close-minded funamentalists but they are not found married to women with the background protrayed by Shana, the Liv Tyler character. There are open-minded men with checkered pasts, but they are usually not as buff looking and sensitive as the main character. I kept waiting for some twist in the plot to develop, as if it would turn out that the wife was playhing out a hidden agenda. But for all its daring to contrast the opinions of the main (white, heterosexual) men in conflict, it was formulaic. If the writer had put more work into the main plot and not added the diversion of the subplot regarding the policeman and his sad discovery at the opening, it might have been a more memorable movie. I thought the professionalism of the camera work was superior to the rest of the movie. The music was adequate. It prefigured the emotional content pretty strongly..
As I'm writing this, I don't know the name of the city it takes place in, but I thought it was a good city for the scapes that were included, particularly the open shot at the very start of the movie. The setup between the very religious husband and the 'sadder but wiser' neighbor and central character is a comparison of stereotypes. There are close-minded funamentalists but they are not found married to women with the background protrayed by Shana, the Liv Tyler character. There are open-minded men with checkered pasts, but they are usually not as buff looking and sensitive as the main character. I kept waiting for some twist in the plot to develop, as if it would turn out that the wife was playhing out a hidden agenda. But for all its daring to contrast the opinions of the main (white, heterosexual) men in conflict, it was formulaic. If the writer had put more work into the main plot and not added the diversion of the subplot regarding the policeman and his sad discovery at the opening, it might have been a more memorable movie. I thought the professionalism of the camera work was superior to the rest of the movie. The music was adequate. It prefigured the emotional content pretty strongly..