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"The Tracey Fragments" uses highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like split screens to tell the story of why 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is riding out a blizzard in the back of a city bus, naked ex...( read more 
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MCT:August 26, 2008It was cool seeing Ellen Page in this sort of role. It seems the rest of Flixter feels differently about that. I dont care. I thought the ending was wonderful... solemn, and subtle. A story about the human spirit. And the editing, although very deliberately disorienting... was pretty cool. Not a good idea to watch if you have epilepsy.
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MCT:August 22, 2008This movie is so hard to watch...while I give credit for doing something creative and different with using the multiple split screen...I did not like this movie much..I could not watch it all the way through cause the constant movement of the screen fragments almost sent me into a seizure....take headache meds before watching
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MCT:August 20, 2008
This movie was full of awkward moments and at times it was very hard to follow. By the end it kind of makes sense but not really. It was a very interesting style though so I will give it credit for that.
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MCT:August 19, 2008
Alternately touching abrasive and ultimately haunting portrait of a disturbed 15 year-old girl in a search for her missing younger brother. One of a kind film making. Not exactly a date movie but extremely well done with a powerful lead performance by Ellen Page.
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MCT:August 18, 2008
The visual style is interesting and under the right hands, could potentially make a great film. The problem is, this is not that film. Every character is annoyingly one-dimensional thanks to Tracey's emo-bullshit mind.
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MCT:August 17, 2008
This is a very artistic movies. I like the editing, the direction, the acting (Ellen Page rocks!!!), everything! I didn't get the story coz you have to watch it over and over to understand the story but it's a really impressive movies. In fragments...
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MCT:August 16, 2008very original and artsy, though dang, i wish that they would have given the split screen style a break and delved more into story development or something... but i guess that would go against the style they were going for. it was kinda like watching a 90 minute, slightly depressing music video...
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MCT:August 15, 2008
I am a big Ellen Page fan ever since I stumbled across Hard Candy a couple of years ago.
I can see the point of the visual style of this movie but I don't think it is always pulled off as well as it could be.
Sometimes I get the impression the editor was trying to be artsy just for the sake of being artsy and got sidetracked from what it was supposed to be.
Otherwise though the acting and storyline I thought were both very good. A nice "slice of life" type film without a lot of things that happen but a good picture into the mind of a troubled teenager. -
MCT:August 14, 2008
Experimental type film. Visually confusing but seems to represent the confusion of the teen character played by Ellen Page of "Juno" The more confused and chaotic her life the more chaotic the multiple film shots are. Nicely acted by Ellen, painful to watch at times, but if you want to watch something new and different give it a try.
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MCT:August 14, 2008
At first, I wasn't really prepared for the unconventional images on screen. After getting past the first 5 to 10 minutes of the erratic film , I settled down and became very comfortable with the format. Strangely enough the credits rolled off on the screen after 15 minutes into the story. I found all of these unorthodox methods of filmmaking amazing. As this story evolved, I was hooked on this captivating claustrophobic psychodrama.
It begins with the 15-year-old Tracey's definition of herself as "just another normal girl who hates herself" and circles through its limited calendar of events using repetition to search for the reality behind a worsening madness. The split screen has never been used so purposefully or with such aesthetic care, capturing the multiple perspectives of a character who cannot separate reality from illusion because the whole world is inside her head.
This narrative has Ellen Page in almost every frame making this her own vehicle. Page delivers a brilliant performance. Her mumbling tirades teeter on the ledge between agony and cynicism without falling into either category. The range Page displays portraying this unique character distinguishes her as one of the most talented actresses today.
The skillful mixture of Tracey's facts and fantasies are broken up into the multiple screens displaying a taut and riveting narrative. The portrait these scenes show is a teenage girl on the edge of insanity. Every sequence of this masterful film gives a raw and moving account of twists and turns unveiling that she was sexually assaulted, taunted by classmates, betrayed and whose mind is, well, fragmented. -
MCT:August 13, 2008
Didn't really know anything about this film when I first started watching it. Ellen Page was enough to convince me it was worth seeing. I've been reading other peoples reviews to get other opinions on the film and the general consensus is that people didn't like the style or the plot and found the structure confusing.
I can see where these people are coming from. The style used splits screens in almost every scene of the film. Sometimes it was challenging to keep and eye on what was going on in every screen. But I liked it. It was different. I've not seen this technique used an awful lot and I found it a pleasant change to just normal shots and cuts. I liked that Bruce McDonald also chose to have the screens play different times from different angles. It was also very interesting to see one scene shots from ten different angles all at once.
The structure was odd and I can see why people would get confused about what was going on but once the film really got started I found it reasonable to follow. The plot I found was probably made better and more interesting by the character and the style of the film. It follows a teenage girl searching for her brother. It starts with her sat at the back of a bus, naked with a sheet wrapped around her. A very odd sight in itself. You are then taken back in time to before she was on the bus, this is confusing because you are not really made aware that you are going back in time. You get to know a little more about the character which, in my opinion, is a fascinating and well written one, played to perfection by the outstanding Ellen Page. The whole thing is still a little muddled but over time the director reveals more and more to you in very little pieces. We find out that Tracey is an outcast at school who is picked on. She also has psychotic tendencies as she fantasises about a boy who joined her school but she talks about it like it really happened. To begin with you are not sure if she is telling the truth or not. These fantasies go just a little beyond harmless.
I also feel an obligation to mention the fact that Ellen Page is now one of very few actors who can successfully pull off the word Cunt without sounding like a complete dickhead. Some actors just can't do it but Page's delivery of it to her shrink is spot on.
At the end of the film everything is revealed very skillfully. The whole story is very tragic and you cannot help but feel really bad for the character. I think a lot of people should be able to relate to the character as well. She is essentially a normal girl who is just trying to make sense of a messed up world she is living in. This is why I think the style of the film works so well for the story. All the screens you see is just the way she sees things in her mind. Experiences are exaggerated and her emotions are heightened. A very sad story that unfortunately seems to be being overlooked by a lot of people. Don't underestimate this film. It is very good and I believe I would still think this even if it did not have Ellen Page in it. I feel she's just another incentive to see it. I have to mention the very last scene as well before I finish up. It's a very long and uncut shot of Page walking through the park wrapped in the sheet. Nothing is said and it is just a very beautiful scene. In some ways completely pointless but it looks brilliant. -
MCT:August 8, 2008Overly artistic. The multiframe scenes are suppose to be intelligent, but they come off as some poor attempt to be professional by some shitty art school student.
Annoying at best. I can't believe I wasted my life with this movie. -
MCT:August 8, 2008The fragments are fluent and creative, but the films overbearing quirkiness is actually kind of weird.
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MCT:August 5, 2008
In the end, I almost liked THE TRACY FRAGMENTS for its original, whacked-out nature, but it's not so much a film as it is an hour and twenty minutes of the filmmakers boasting "Look what WE can do in an editing suite...aren't we cool!" It's an artistic mess that almost won me over; almost.
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MCT:August 5, 2008Just a caveat before I start: I was only half paying attention when I watched this. While that is a discredit to the film because it didn't keep my focus, I might force myself to watch this again more closely in the future. But for now, this is what I thought.
I applaud filmmakers for having the balls to do something different in film stylistically. Heck, I'm all about expirementation in art. However, I felt that the makers of the Tracey Fragments thought they had a novel idea when really the concept had kinda been done before. So, in the end, this film came across as quite pretentious. It tries to seem dark and confusing when really its quite simplistic.
There is no real story to speak of. Ellen Page's character might as well have just come out at the beginning of the film and said, "Look at me, I'm an angry person going about my boring life being angry. By the end of this film, you won't know me or any of the other characters any better than you do now but you will acclaim the film because we tell you that it's art." Then we all could have saved ourselves some time.
This movie actually made me sad. I am very sad to see that Ellen Page is letting herself be completely typecast as the alternative teenager rebelling from the world as she figures out who she is. From previous projects, I thought I sensed some strong acting talent there but I'm starting to think that there's a reason Page won't move outside her comfort zone.
I know this may sound odd given the quasi-graphic nature of this film but maybe I'm just too old for it. Maybe I no longer contain enough angst inside of me to find a connection. -
MCT:August 5, 2008
Riding on the glory and popularity of "Juno", "The Tracey Fragments" creates intrigue for Ellen Page fans but will be somewhat disappointed on what is on offer here. Definitely style over substance, we follow a depressed 15-year old as she looks for her missing brother, jumping timelines and fragments. Film feels like a pretentious final exam for a film class, some dialogue offer promise of wit but all hope is lost comes midway through the film where style loses its novelty value. Story is definitely thin with its 24-style filming more of a destraction on how thin it is, Ellen Page tries her hardest to make film more important than it actually is. Question is: did Page chose the film for the material or to support the indie Canadian film making industry? Production values are grassroots with the soundtrack a healthy welcome.
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MCT:August 2, 2008I have to say that I didn't really care for this movie. I didn't like how the screen was in fragments the entire time. I guess that's why it's called the Tracey Fragments. But to me it was just a little annoying. I also felt like the storyline went nowhere. Not something I would watch again.
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MCT:August 1, 2008
the filming of this movie is crazy dont watch it if you get motion sickness...you have to watch it more then once for sure!
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MCT:July 31, 2008
While Ellen Page does some excellent acting (as per usual), playing a 15 year old, I think she is definitely getting type cast into the role of a confused teen. Visually the movie was interesting but a little pretentious. I liked it alright, but really, it's nothing to write home about.
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MCT:July 29, 2008
This was a great movie - more like a piece of art than an actual film, shot in split screens and slightly out of sequence. It fascinated me all the way through, although I still couldn't say for certain exactly what was going on all the way through it and how much of it was in Tracey's imagination. Ellen Page, as ever, is excellent playing a socially stunted 15 year old with family issues. Highly recommended if you like something a bit different.
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MCT:July 29, 2008
Love love love the editing, so shuddup everyone confused and let me have my little editor's moviegasm.
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MCT:July 28, 2008
This movie is soo weird and confusing. After you watch it you are going to be left confused and feeling stupid. I give the movie one good thing which is it was pretty original and ellen page kick acting was really good. but everything else. was just blah.
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MCT:July 25, 2008
Page is Tracey Berkowitz, a cerebrally-addled teen who roams the streets and city buses of Ontario in the hopes of finding her missing younger brother Sonny, who has been hypnotized into believing he is a dog. The narrative is told in a fractured style with various pieces here and different pieces there and all amidst a myriad of sliding and fading boxes and bizarre imagery. Ellen Page is very bright and convincing young actress and that she delivers to us a character so tragic and so sad that is difficult not to feel at least a little something for her bratty ass. It helped that the fractured narrative didn't have any gaping missing pieces and once you get to stitching them together in your mind in only bolsters Tracey's sad and unfortunate tale. The Tracey Fragments is an Ellen Page showcase that looks strange enough to almost be something more. Random shots of a cheap necklace, toy horses, and a tiny noose are all well and good, but their randomness seems unable to conjure up any feeling.
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anniquesweetangelposted 37 days ago -
I thought that it would be good because it had Ellen Page in it,I was wrong. The way the movie was shot is just way to hard to pay attention to the story line!!!
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