Chronicle

I really enjoyed this clever dip into timeless themes and all that stuff they call CGI. Chronicle chronicles the events that must transpire if one accidentally develops super human skills like telekinesis and flight. Contrived at times, some scenes and dialogue don't really make sense. It's not so important that everything does though, especially since there are a whole slew of metaphysic questions to answer in an hour and a half. I think the point is to sift around in the reality of how unreal it would be to be able to will things to move. Necessarily, the movie reaches into melodrama. What is a hero if he or she is not tragic? You'll find all the status quo hubris inducing forces that have been exhausted in lesser movies yet still rear their head. To avenge the movie out of monotony we are given a tussle that Goonies and Super 8 had trouble conjuring up, a pretty sad ending amongst the enjoyment of watching friends hanging out. All is not really well with this one, it's bitter sweet the whole time. The entire story in this way is a monition for those that secretly still kind of wish that comic books weren't so comedic to the quarterback. In the end, "maybe we want the world at a distance." Something between us and them or us and that or us and that bad thing. Be it through a camera or a superpower, Chronicle does well to usher us into a world that looks real and feels real but just may have to be thrown in the $5 caped crusader bin, try as it might to get out. There was some great acting in this one, too. Check it out.