From the French play, translated into English as GOD OF CARNAGE, this TONY AWARD WINNING PLAY was a tremendous hit on Broadway, Marcia Gay Harden particularly strong as one of the dissenting mothers, ROMAN POLANSKI turned it into a movie, simply calling it CARNAGE starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and John C. Reilly. It is an extremely short film. For awhile it seems things are O. K., but then the film swerves into a polemic ( about respective sons and then a million other things ) which most simply could not take. It was a horrendous disaster as a movie. I doubt anyone saw it. As a play it worked as many if not most stage plays are fairly static relying on the spoken word, not so much on action. Filming this movie as a quasi-stage production was a huge mistake. Polanski should have known much better. He should have opened up the play to catch a glimpse of the real world instead of having us locked up in a living room where 4 adults argue and disagree on almost everything under the sun. THE PREMISE WAS A MISTAKE FROM THE GET GO! It could have worked, as stated, if expanded to incorporate the world at large, thus giving us more than just one basic room as a set from which no one leaves.
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