i be absolutely blow away by john cassavetes open night . it the first movie of his that i have see that seem to be on a big scale and thus it feel more mainstream and but it still doesn not feel a if he ground himself any more than he have in his previous film . that be perhaps what make it so intense . there be also something undoubtedly cathartic about watch this movie . it about what in fact cassavetes have make a staple of his career and an ideal that he have express behind the camera throughout his career a a director and be here express it in front . rowlands character and middle age stage actress myrtle gordon and can not bring herself to play her role in the upcoming production a write so she uncalculatedly follow impulse after impulse and result in what appear to be chaos on stage and until she find the right one . it a daringly abstract premise . this be a movie that do not fail to capture the innate steering that one go through during an emotional cleansing . no one understand why myrtle do many of the thing she do and and it be see and even portray a something destructive and yet it just might be the best thing for her . it may be a cleanse rather than a breakdown . a withdrawal and a cocoon and a rebellion and it all culminate into a meltdown . cassavetes give her character a brutally real touch and which be that early on and she be ardently argue that she have nothing in common with her character and yet she be in quiet but emotionally corrode fear that the opposite be true . the last scene and the climactic performance that myrtle share with a character painfully estrange from her who be act with her and be one of the most interesting and hilarious and hard hitting and enlightening and and enjoyable moment i have ever see in a movie .