Six Degrees of Separation is by far one of the most extraordinary movies I’ve seen in my life. It starts off in utter confusion and clatter, the lines run fast, the characters change quickly, increasing in number, and just when I thought I got it, a naked man ran into the picture and took me back to my initial state of confusion. Developing into a sort of mystery or rather a detective story, as the number of “victims” increases, the film leaves you wondering along with the main characters about what is happening and why. More and more people join in the story, entering its audience or joining its narrators, and take you to the conclusion that the film is just that – a succession of narratives, all single-blinded, and all lacking the knowledge as who is the mystery boy who entered their lives and brought them into his little game. I don’t think there’s only one interpretation as to what actually happens – I call it a game but for some it could be something very different. You think that something is revealed towards the end, but is it really? – you can’t be sure. And the movie really makes you think if not anything else.
The title is somewhat straight forward – you never know what kind of person may enter your life and for what purpose. The idea is that there is a chain of six people connecting us to each person on the planet: the trick is to find the connection between the right six people in the first place. I do not know if this is true, but I know that a theory about it exists. While it is not heavily emphasized in the movie, the theme is underlying the events in a clever way that is worded for more clarity in a few lines somewhere in the middle. And that is that.
Six Degrees of Separation is complicated, or confusing at the very least, but it’s worth the time and once you get into it, you couldn’t let a line slip away. It knows how to attract attention and how to keep it. And, as pointed out earlier, it makes you think.
The title is somewhat straight forward – you never know what kind of person may enter your life and for what purpose. The idea is that there is a chain of six people connecting us to each person on the planet: the trick is to find the connection between the right six people in the first place. I do not know if this is true, but I know that a theory about it exists. While it is not heavily emphasized in the movie, the theme is underlying the events in a clever way that is worded for more clarity in a few lines somewhere in the middle. And that is that.
Six Degrees of Separation is complicated, or confusing at the very least, but it’s worth the time and once you get into it, you couldn’t let a line slip away. It knows how to attract attention and how to keep it. And, as pointed out earlier, it makes you think.