Post by nicolecushing on Nov 27, 2012 1:02:44 GMT -5
Just finished Romero's Martin, and...in general...liked it quite a bit. (To me, Martin ranks just behind N.O.T.L.D. but ahead of everything else Romero directed. In the short documentary on the Martin DVD, Romero says this is the film that he's happiest with).
And now, some spoiler-laden discussion...
And now, some spoiler-laden discussion...
OK...so in the DVD documentary Romero says he doesn't think Martin's actually a vampire...that he's just a kid who's messed up, and has problems. I prefer this interpretation (I think that makes the ending all the more tragic).
But to me, this opened up a whole slew of questions/plot holes.
For example, if he's not a vampire, then where are his real mother and father? (We hear the old grandfather say something like "Martin had his father until he was 32", but we don't hear anything more. How can the grandfather (or anyone else in the family) believe Martin's actually 82 if there are baby pictures documenting differently....or, Heaven forbid, if someone just finds the kid's birth certificate.
The only way out of this plot hole...at least, that I can think of ...would be if Martin were the result of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and if he were shuttled off to an orphanage or something after birth, and then re-emerged in the family 20 years later...perhaps psychologically worse for wear. While this sort of thing couldn't happen in this day and age, it would work in the time period of the film.
Anyway, am I missing something here? Is there something I just didn't "get"?
But to me, this opened up a whole slew of questions/plot holes.
For example, if he's not a vampire, then where are his real mother and father? (We hear the old grandfather say something like "Martin had his father until he was 32", but we don't hear anything more. How can the grandfather (or anyone else in the family) believe Martin's actually 82 if there are baby pictures documenting differently....or, Heaven forbid, if someone just finds the kid's birth certificate.
The only way out of this plot hole...at least, that I can think of ...would be if Martin were the result of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and if he were shuttled off to an orphanage or something after birth, and then re-emerged in the family 20 years later...perhaps psychologically worse for wear. While this sort of thing couldn't happen in this day and age, it would work in the time period of the film.
Anyway, am I missing something here? Is there something I just didn't "get"?
