Well, after seeing Hard Candy I was eager to see what else Ellen Page had done (first saw as an inflight movie in '07). The Tracey Fragments was one of the first of her other films that I saw. I was suitably impressed, and wanted to rewatch it after a decent interval.
A couple of years later and I've just done that. It's still a good film, its on screen presentation is of multiple images alongside each other, ofter offset in time (unlike Wicked Wicked's "duo vision" with its permanent split screen and coincident timing).
The Tracey Fragments are just that, a look through the mind of a tortured young woman who suffers daily bullying, dysfunctional mother, and finally has to face responsibility for a tragic accident .
The lighting and camera work is fantastic, and the editing avoids annoying with a technique that might have been turned into a failed cheap trick in the hands of a less skillful director/editor team.
Good film, I will see this again.
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