Although I predicted the denouement of On My Mind about 1/3 or the way through, I really hoped for the filmmakers to find a way to make it powerful. With few exceptions, I find extremely annoying the current trend of filmmakers making their viewers guess what's going on until at least half-way through the film, but I didn't find this film quite as annoying; perhaps the filmmakers intended for their audience to have figured out the entire film so soon, but if so, I'm just annoyed that they didn't get on with it. The conflict with the bar owner during the first 3/4 of the film did nothing to build any kind of emotion for the denouement. There is some nice symbolism with the protagonists breath fogging up his drinking glass, but it for me it came off as film student pretention.
***Here comes the spoiler:
Perhaps the reason I figured out the denouement 1/3 of the way through the film is that I was in the room several years ago when they pulled the plug after my brother suffered a stroke, and it was clear that his brain was gone. Since people who have been in coma (albeit rarely) awaken with a few memories of visits from loved ones while they were out, many caregivers suggest that you talk to loved ones in coma.
***Here comes the spoiler:
Perhaps the reason I figured out the denouement 1/3 of the way through the film is that I was in the room several years ago when they pulled the plug after my brother suffered a stroke, and it was clear that his brain was gone. Since people who have been in coma (albeit rarely) awaken with a few memories of visits from loved ones while they were out, many caregivers suggest that you talk to loved ones in coma.
