I left something important out of my review of Seven Days in Utopia, and it is the ending, which is why I originally left it out. But it is also the most interesting part of the film, and the rest of the film is not worth seeing, so it doesn’t seem hideous to tell you about it.
At the very end, after Robert Duvall’s character has released Lucas Black’s character from tutelage and sent him to a golf tournament to fulfill his dream (after Duvall converts Black to Christianity by touching his face, making him bury a piece of paper with all his “lies” on it, and telling him to “chisel [his] living epitaph” by literally carving his own mini-gravestone), Black faces the putt of his life. If he makes this shot, he’ll beat a super-famous golfer and win the game.
He takes the shot, and as the ball rolls toward the cup, the camera pans up and away from the green, with a cheesy voiceover from Duvall saying something to the effect of “Does it really matter if he wins?” Because, you know, he’s found God, so who cares? And then it goes to a black screen that reads: “To continue the journey, go to www.DidHeMakeThePutt.com.”
It’s multimedia proselytizing! Or, I’m assuming it’s proselytizing—it could just be a video of the putt. The site isn’t up until the movie’s released tomorrow. I’m on pins and needles!
I read ‘Lucas Black’ as ‘Lewis Black’ and this movie seemed WAY more interesting.
What’s great about that whole scenario is that even if these people were real, and he’d remained an empty, Godless golfer, it still wouldn’t make a difference if he made the putt. Any golf fans remember who placed higher than Tiger in the 2007 Masters? I doubt it.
They must’ve known they had a crap movie on their hands to bother with this sort of cross-platform advertising hoopla. Even in lowlier forms of art like film making or novelty t-shirt printing, displaying a URL is toxic.
Did everyone at the screening audibly groan? I would have.
This movie sounds like a really shitty vesion of “Cars.”
Saw it yesterday, and the audience laughed first, at the post-script, then applauded! Yes, it was an attempt to get folks to realize what’s really important in life. I walked out thinking, this could have been about anything that’s popular, or, that people devote their lives to. But the point was, what makes a difference? What has significance? What makes for a better world…better people? I think it was trying to say: think bigger than that. Aim higher than normal. Give more than you take. Look beyond yourself.
This is an incredible movie which can’t be appreciated or comprehended by sick people with closed, hate-filled minds. How terribly sad. Try to learn something outside of your grimy little world of uneducated, foul-mouthed, tattooed,metal-pierced, green-haired freaks, if you can find some time between the latest “protest movement”.