That’s right, this student made movie looks terrible…
As you would expect, not much happens except Eru accepting Fuyumi’s offer of reviewing a movie. However, the so-called mystery movie that the students made is just terrible in terms of its execution that screams amateur. No wonder everyone seemed uninterested, especially Mayaka who slept through the whole thing. I suppose Sturgeon’s Law was in full force, thus this movie is a piece of crud.
If I would them, I would have some more effort into it such as writing the whole script and complete the mystery before filming it. This is not a Let’s Play where you can say anything during your video game recording and then cut it out in Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X. Not only that, why are they working on a mystery movie when the production team have zero experience in that genre? Sure you can do research, but it will always turn out bad since the writers lack experience. Of course, since the ending never got completed, that is wishful thinking.
Lastly, one of the things that interested me is that the last episode indicated what would happen in this arc. The writers apparently used the ghost story in Room Seven to introduce the theme of ghosts that got incorporated in the movie (a ghost town), which I found interesting. Aside from that, it seems like Eru still has a tight leash on Oreki and apparently, she wants to help out with solving the mystery in the movie. From that, the Classic Literature Club has to get their creative juices going while Oreki cries in despair with his energy reserves getting depleted thanks to her.
The student film seemed like a terrible attempt at making a mockumentary. xD
I find it odd that they simply didn’t ask the scriptwriter who the culprit was, since I’m pretty sure she’s not in a coma or anything. Maybe that will be an important element in the next episode?
I think that will become an element of the next episode, because as you said I doubt she’s in coma or anything…
Feel a bit uneasy about the people who are apparently playing the role as a detective… Are the Classic Literature Club supposed to solve the mystery and write dialogue for them at the same time? Hmmmm.
Nah, I doubt it since exhausting yourself wouldn’t cause someone to fall in a coma. You need a concussion or a serious accident for that to happen. But still, the movie is terrible and I wonder how the Classic Literature Club win manage to solve it without the original writer…
Yeah, that’s the thing. I’m going to be pretty bothered by it if there wasn’t any underlying reason for not asking the scriptwriter. Right now, I’m speculating that there’s something more elaborate going on here, in relation to making the Classics Club solve the mystery in the movie.
I’m kind of curious of how they’ll do it myself, since as you said the movie’s terrible. I’m going to be extremely impressed if there were subtle clues in the bits that were shown to us, or if they made more of the movie than we’re led to believe, according to the episode preview (Houtaro figures out what happens in the rest of film? Can’t be, since that’s a stretch).
As Chitanda would say, “I’m curious”! 😛