And so you should, Mike! Only kidding. This just highlights another difficulty with judging. Whilst, as Dave says, judges have to try to put their own prejudices to one side regarding subject matter, it must be almost impossible to discount something that one sees as infeasible as this totally ruins the story. Here, you saw Karen's initial reaction as infeasible and it was therefore impossible for you to see any credibility in the rest of the story. Those of us who have seen the film in a different light clearly did not find that an issue.Mike Shaw wrote:I shall stand in the corner, head bowed, suitable admonished ....
Two years ago, I found the Best British Entry - Pigeon Post - totally infeasible because I did not believe that a couple who lived within cycling distance of each other would communicate the urgent fact that one had been called up and was leaving the next day by carrier pigeon. It rather spoiled it for me although in this case the story did not pivot on this device.
One of my own films, gaining three stars this year, was picked on as having an infeasible plot device. Rather amusingly, three infeasible plot devices have been picked up in this film by different judges, but in each they have not seen the other devices as infeasible!
Subjectivity again