Today we're discussing Clint Eastwood's 2018 film "The 15:17 To Paris", which is inadventently a surreal cinematic experiment on par with anything in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
The film is based on the 2015 Thalys terrorist attack where a man wielding guns and knives was subdued by three American servicemembers.
When deciding to make a film depicting the events Clint Eastwood made the baffling decision to cast all the real people from the event to playthemselves (besides the terrorist himself obviously). With the attack taking place only in the last 20 minutes of the film we're left with 70 minutes of screentime of the three guys back story, inexpertly reinacted by the guys themselves.
In the video I discuss other films that have opted to use non-professional actors as a stroke of genius, which I argue is not what happened here.
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