Clay Hammond In The Movie 'The Words': The Movie

Would you watch a movie about authors writing books about authors? That sums up the whole movie called The Words. Clay Hammond is the main character, who is an author in the movie played by Dennis Quaid. The movie begins with Hammond giving a reading of his new book. He tells the story of his book while narrating Rory Jansen’s (who is played by Bradley Cooper) life. In Hammond’s story, Rory finds a manuscript that was long lost. He decides to steal it and publish it as his own to get his writing career going. His first book was rejected, due to him being a new author. He is confronted by an old man, the real author, after he has become successful and is embarrassed and ashamed. He had to figure out how to deal with it. The event ends with
Hammond encouraging people to find out the ending by buying the book.
Hammond’s story was interesting to think about after you watched it; some people think he is writing about himself, some think otherwise. The great cities and places they chose for the settings in this movie made it better. Although, when they had a scene with Hammond in it, you couldn't really tell where he was. Another confusing element of the movie was when the Old Man told a story, they switched the scenes to a younger version of him. I think they should have had some details of his stories but not used in a flashback. Instead, they should have had the old man describe it so the audience could visualize it. The Words would remind some people of the movie Inception if you doze off at all, with its confusing story. The slow and relaxing music makes it very easy to fall asleep along with a slow story; they occasionally had the characters yell at each other to wake up the audience.
Even though I didn’t enjoy the movie as much as other people have, I would recommend it to others. It wasn’t my type of movie being a slow paced mystery/drama, but it would be enjoyable to others who do like that style.