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Arwon Bazu                   Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6314 days |
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| 9.5 at least. Stunning, weighty, relevant, brilliant. I think it gets a US release in a month or so and everyone damn well better go see it.
There's a lot to rave about in this movie. One thing I really liked was the way exposition was handled all the way through... no voice-overs taking you out of the film, lucid details given within the context of the movie. I always like piecing together backstory and context through referenced details in news-casts and newspaper articles and so forth, and it was done so brilliantly here. The overall feel of the movie was absolutely, chillingly believable, extrapolated from present-day concerns. Some really resonant images, notably Spoiler:
relating to the perscution of refugees (and foreigners in general) taken to sadly believable extremes with the cages, busses and forlorn elderly. The entrance to Bexhill was Guantanimo Bay, Abu Graib and Auschwitz in equal measure, and absolutely chilling. There were a lot of really nice touches throughout the film. I loved the random Pink Floyd reference in the Ark of Art scene. Spoiler: . So brilliantly appropriate a choice. The Actually that whole scene was awesome--I loved the image of Guernica hanging in the dining room Spoiler: . The way that the movie seemed obsessed with showing us that pathetically tragic and wrong-headed terrorists in their country house reminded me of the French Resistance. The different bands of refugees marching around during the uprising--one chanting "Allah Akhbar" while another group on another street waved a French flag and sang songs Spoiler:
elderly Germans in particular were getting deported... the occasional moment of dark humour. Ummm... soundtrack worked really well, though I don't think Sigur Ros was in it despite being in the trailer. The actors all seemed to work, Caine was a highlight, Moore Spoiler: was excellent. Kee (I don't remember her actor name) was weirdly unpleasant for some reason, but I guess she was just scared and overwhelmed.
died shockingly early but All the way through, as the movie turned from bleak dystopia into full-on thriller, it never once got boring. The cinematography was part of this... every scene was densely packed with rich visuals and there was always something to look at. Pretty much every line of dialogue was weighty and interesting and worth hearing, never once did a scene drag on or feel unnecessary which is quite a feat given the subject matter. I mean, for example Spoiler:
the school scene could have easily become a flat point in the film, but it hung around just long enough to make impact it needed to do... making explicit the link between the lack of children, the onset of despair, and the beginning of the collapse. And this became essential as more and more people ended up sacrificing themselves completely for this child, this symbol of hope. Such a scene of pure exposition could easily have gone on too long and dragged a bit, but no, it was another expertly handled aspect of the film, and strengthened it, if anything. The ending. Oh my god, the climactic scene, the scale of it, the length, it was almost impossible. Spoiler: mind-blowingly beautiful.
Part Saving Private Ryan, part Chechnya news footage, part Warsaw Uprising. Saving Private Ryan in scale, Full Metal Jacket in grittiness, and the entire scene shown through the perspective of Owen just running around in the middle of it, terrified and trying not to get killed. Then the sequence with the escape from the Fishes and Soldiers as they stare in disbelief was It wasn't quite perfect, if anything it could have been longer to spend a little more time on some of the really weighty issues it raised but mainly used as background, some characters could have gotten more screen time, and a little bit more exposition of certain things wouldn't have gone astray. I mean I'd liked to have known a little more about Spoiler: . But over all, it was smart, exciting, interesting, chillingly believable, and, despite the grime and the dirt, even beautiful.
the Human Project, for example |
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Young Guru Snifit   Since: 11-18-05 From: Notre Dame, IN Last post: 6320 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| I've seen a lot of release posters for that around the city, what exactly is the general concept of the movie? I think Clive Owen is a great actor so I was intrigued just by that. | |||
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Arwon Bazu Since: 11-18-05 From: Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6314 days |
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| Well I think the less you know about the plot the better, but the key things to know are it's a brilliant near-future dystopian thriller, and that the central plot point is that humanity has been completely infertile for 18 years--there's no children--and no-one knows why. |
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