Fragments aka Winged CreaturesFragments is an interesting treatment of psychological coping strategies and the frailty of memory. One of the seven people followed is Anne (played by Dakota), who has witnessed the senseless murder of her father. The movie as well as Dakota's performance are well executed and thought-provoking.
Fragments follows the lives of seven people who share a traumatic
experience. The film is an interesting treatment of various psychological
coping strategies, and is an exposition on self-deception, emotional
repression, denial, isolation, and the general frailty of memory itself.
Dakota plays Anne Hagen, who witnesses the senseless and random murder of
her father in an otherwise typical greasy-spoon diner. Anne quickly turns
to God (the Christian one) as a crutch and uses "his will" to rationalize
her rewritten version of the actual events. Her fundamentalist bible
thumping was awkward to watch, but that was, I think, the point.
 In this film, Dakota lies just beyond the precipice of early teen, while
very occasionally revealing some of her fading childish mannerisms. Anne
is a fairly good role for Dakota, and while the character is otherwise
fairly emotionally detached throughout most of the film, Dakota is able to
communicate much of Anne's inner turmoil through subtle cues.
Fragments reminded me a lot of the film Crash, in terms of how the
characters' stories are woven together, and also in the overall mood,
captured by both the cinematography and soundtrack. Unlike many other
films mentioned on this site endured solely for the shining starlet,
Fragments was pleasantly enjoyable and thought-provoking.
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