***SPOILERS*** What is a story within a story movie about a struggling writer Rory Jansen, Bradley Cooper, who comes up with a best seller that he found in a battered suitcase in a Paris gift shop while on his honeymoon with his wife Dora,Zoe Saldana. It's when Rory gets the book, "Window Tears", published and it becomes a best seller that his troubles starts. It turns out that the parson who in fact did write the story only known as "the Old Man", Jeremy Irons, comes out of hiding, for the last 50 or so years, and makes life a living hell for him. In that he not Jeremy wrote the book that was based on his life.
What's so surprising about all this is that it's told by writer Clay Hammond, Dennis Quaid, who we suspect is really using another name in "his" book of being Rory Jensen! The confusion goes on until the final minutes of the movie as Hammond tells his story about the life and times of Rory Jenson to a girl that he just met Daniella, Olivia Wlde, who's soon to realize his secret identity of Rory Jansen! As for the "Old Man" he's completely out of it throughout the entire film in his greenhouse where by growing plants and flowers as he tries to forget his past that Rory or better yet Hammoond dug up with the book that he wrote!
Strang confusing but interesting movie that leaves you hanging in the end to just what the hell is going on in it about love found love lost and finally love forgotten in the case of the "Old Man" who now becomes the main obsession in Rory or Hammond's life. A life filled with lies and make believe that brings him to the conclusion that he's not the great writer that he and the literary world thinks he is. It's when the "Old Man" who's heart couldn't take it, the book that he wrote that was stolen right from under his nose, anymore and suddenly died that both Hammond, or the fictitious Rory Jansen, finally got his act together and continued his life as the great American writer that he knows in his heart of hearts that he isn't. Like the "Old Man" who's life by them was completely destroyed wanted him to.
What's so surprising about all this is that it's told by writer Clay Hammond, Dennis Quaid, who we suspect is really using another name in "his" book of being Rory Jensen! The confusion goes on until the final minutes of the movie as Hammond tells his story about the life and times of Rory Jenson to a girl that he just met Daniella, Olivia Wlde, who's soon to realize his secret identity of Rory Jansen! As for the "Old Man" he's completely out of it throughout the entire film in his greenhouse where by growing plants and flowers as he tries to forget his past that Rory or better yet Hammoond dug up with the book that he wrote!
Strang confusing but interesting movie that leaves you hanging in the end to just what the hell is going on in it about love found love lost and finally love forgotten in the case of the "Old Man" who now becomes the main obsession in Rory or Hammond's life. A life filled with lies and make believe that brings him to the conclusion that he's not the great writer that he and the literary world thinks he is. It's when the "Old Man" who's heart couldn't take it, the book that he wrote that was stolen right from under his nose, anymore and suddenly died that both Hammond, or the fictitious Rory Jansen, finally got his act together and continued his life as the great American writer that he knows in his heart of hearts that he isn't. Like the "Old Man" who's life by them was completely destroyed wanted him to.