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Zerkalo (1975)
The future is happening now.
"The future is happening now", so it says in the book, Instant Light, which includes quotes and Polaroid photos of Tarkovsky. Never have I thought of something so much during a movie, what happens now, what happens then, what is now, then what is? Is this movie happening now? Or is this film the future? I'm stuck in a vicious circle, an evil thought pattern, but fortunately, I'am struck away by a shock wave so hard that I keep myself in the seat edge and stare at my ugly computer monitor, I just stare, I will not blink, I can not breathe - I dare not, I'm afraid, afraid to miss something, afraid to not see anything. For what if I in a wink, as much as miss a frame, or I for one breath would upset the future, thus what is happening now.
Right now, I sit and look at my hands, I'm studying my palm, I wonder why my life-line is so short, I look more closely, looking at all so lines I have in it - I think that every little line has been precisely because I bend and cupping my hand in a certain way. Now the future happened again, but was it the future that had just happened and now is the past?
"... He wanted to give three elderly Muslims a photograph he had taken of them. The eldest, after casting a brief glance at the image, gave it back to him, saying: "Why stop time?" We were left gaping in speechless wonder at this extraordinary refusal.", So it also says in the Instant Light. For why should we stop the time? Why should we stop the future and do it in the past? But if a Polaroid is a stop in time, then what is a movie? I do not know, I do not know what anything is right now. What is life, oh it was a mediocre question, I skip it. I do not know what is going on inside of me right now, I can hardly remember what I just watched, but at the same time I know that I will never forget one single detail of what I just saw or will I? Will I have to feed it into my brain once again to somehow remember it again? I check myself in the mirror and see a vague reflection of something, what is it? I do not know. Right now I notice that it played music in the headphones that I have not dared to take them out since the ending scene in The Mirror rolled by. But how did the music got in the headphones? Can I have sat on it? I do not know, I do not remember? Have I suffered a sudden loss of memory, or what is happening?
"On the set of the The Mirror, Andrey Takovsky included himself in one scene, lying in a hospital bed and holding a tiny bird on his right hand. And this is what happened to him at the end of his life: in his hospital room in Paris, the room where he died, a little bird would fly every morning through the open window and come to light on him." There I will leave it, I think. I dare not to say more, I'm afraid. But wow, I saw just a movie? I do not know, maybe?
Not that I rate the The past, but I can rate the future, because I know I will see The Mirror again. Never has anything seemed so obvious Is there even any other rating than 10/10, for this film? Silly question, of course not.
The Selfish Giant (2013)
Incredible and painful hyper realistic social realism.
Painfully truthful social realism at its most painful and fragile form . Fully brilliant and abstract genius. When that little is so much and when that is large so little - what's a few pounds extra in Bradford's poorest and vulnerable areas really worth? Is it worth a few scrape? A few broken bones? Some blood? Someone's life?
Last time I saw something like this incredibly vulnerable and genuine was 2011 in Warp X-film Tyrannosaur, also a British film that plague one's mind with soiled hyper-realistic social realism. But regarding genuineness in every single small frame, The Selfish Giant is even better.
It hurts a little extra in the chest, a lump is in my throat - oh, this was a movie! I thought I was teleported to Bradford. I'm sold , take my extra pounds, I do not care - you have tortured me enough.
The spectacle is so incredible that I do not for a second think of the fictional character that is playing in front of my eyes.
What hurts most is that I can not give the movie or the play, or motion pictures, more than a 7/10, that is a little hard, but that's all I can spare when I put the film in context to other movies I rated.
To the Wonder (2012)
Mallick flaunting me again - two hours of poetry, two hours of art.
When time and space are no longer a nascent fact, is the existence a necessary presence? Life death, love hate. Happiness, fear, tears, laughts. The past is only fragmentary atoms made up of mind, the future is just nothing. Today , yesterday, tomorrow. As a melting ice, like a burning forest, it will never come back again - that was then, now is now.
Mallick flaunting me again - two hours of poetry, two hours of art, two hours.
Mallick uses yet again his great Lubezki as a cinematographer - I soar, I am alive, or am I.
We are floating softly in fluffy clouds, deep voiceovers cross each other in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Am I in heaven?
When a film has an story that can not really be described in words - the result is nine out of ten times magnificently. Or you can say it another way - when a movie has an story that can be interpreted as surely diverse films from person to person - then it has succeeded.
The dialogue is so deep - but still, I can not recall a single whole phrase from the movie. Fragmentary sound vibrations have become etched into a magnificent photo in my mind. Even though I feel so fully aware of exactly what the characters have said - I have no idea what actually was said in the movie.
It's not that I'm putting out something poetic game now to describe the brilliance of the film - I actually have no idea what was said in the movie. There was talk of God, that I know - but I think I only can recall because of the magnificent pictures from the churches who attended in the movie.
For the imagery-memory of this film is so strong that it totally beats out any dialogue. Just at the moment, the dialogue is perfectly and complements the images to something so complex that it all ends up in a poetic orgasm as strikes intense. But ten seconds later I sit as demented and think back to what happened in the movie ten seconds ago, when I think back on this, I am struck by yet another poetic orgy of words and images - it's like a vicious cycle, just that it is good.
Poetic orgy and vicious circles that are good - it's time to stop this review now, if it even can be called for review, or is it just pretentious bullshit? Well, I ask you now - do you actually remember what I wrote at the beginning of this review ?
Score, right - I belong to the kind of people that puts ratings on their movies after seeing them, even I rank them in lists - my goodness I am so pathetic. 8/10.
Enemy (2013)
The child of Eyes Wide Shut and Mulholland Dr.
Adam Bell is a total casually university-teacher that lives in Toronto. When he is not teaching at the university, he slips around in her nice apartment and do not have anything to do, except when the occasion offers - having sex with his girlfriend Mary. The life of Adam is pretty boring actually.
Things change when a colleague recommended a movie to Adam, somewhat reluctantly he agrees to rent the movie and see it one evening. Initially unimpressed with the film, Adam discovers something weird in the movie: one of the actors, by the name of Anthony St. Claire, looks just like him, actually he identical with him. This remarkable discovery puts Adam into an obsession. An obsession that gives him situations that he never would have expected.
If I say like this - Eyes Wide Shut and Mulholland Drive met a dark evening around 2002, one thing led to another and suddenly they were a couple. Time passed and their love grew stronger over the years. Soon addition was expected to the family and the other year the young and beautiful Enemy was added to the family Shut/Drive.
This are the kind of slow agonizing, mysterious, dreamlike - psychologically manipulative movies, which I so deeply adore. I am so sold on this film that I can kneel and clap night long, if I had been able wolf-whistle I would have done it too. Wow, damn - this is good.
Last time we were visited by a great film of the slow , agonizing mysterious kind, was in Polanski's The Ghost Writer from 2010, but the movie is not what makes Enemy like that little extra awesome - the surreal mystery that makes us never really know what happens - we get so incredibly deep mind-blown through the entire film that we do not even know what happened in reality.
The ending is open to interpretation - there is an interpretation that is circulating on the internet that could be true, I'm not going to mention this here, as it spoilers the movie, but I say that it is just a well analyzed interpretation - which may well be true, but not necessarily need to be. For this is the movie that you after-wards to sit and feel unsure of what the outcome really was - if one directly after the movie, "says" that you understood it completely , so you are probably just a cocky culture geek who is trying to be pretentious.
I don't even wan't to comment so incredibly mundane things as acting and photo, after this kind of experience - those are things that I usually really like to comment in my reviews. I'll make it short - the photo is dreamy incredible, fantastic and wonderful. The acting is excellent on all sides - from the protagonist/s Jack Gyllenhaal to Isabella Rossellini's mini roll. Mélanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon does really good acting and are wonderfully phenomenal and sexy.
This movie has what I want, I want this movie. A rating is so useless and overrated, why do movies have to be classified by grades to be good? No I'm just kidding, I love to rate my movies. Strong 8/10, with a proximity for a nine so strong, that I can almost touch it.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
A humiliation hard to imagine
When Solomon Northup wakes up on a floor and realizes that he has been kidnapped, we hear the familiar sound of chains before we see what happened. He is chained to the hands and feet. He's only wearing a pair of pants and a shirt. He is black.
"12 years a slave" is based on a peculiar autobiography of the same name that was published in 1853. Barely ten years before Lincoln proclaimed the abolition of slavery , and the book was also used as propaganda by the abolitionists that Northup, a black man born in freedom, he himself joined .
Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley ("Three Kings") had been able to take what happened afterwards, when Northup helped slaves escape. But they stick to the literary boundaries and thus makes the film into what the book is, one man 's testimony about something that affected many.
Steve McQueen has said he thought he understood what slavery was before he read the biography. But the film, just like the book, lays bare the humiliation that is difficult to imagine. The key is that we see the system through someone we can identify with, someone not indoctrinated from birth but suddenly suffer from insanity with full force.
In the feature film debut "Hunger" (2008), about the IRA-martyr Bobby Sands, and in "Shame", about a sex addict, Steve McQueen meditated on the body burden and means of expression. And the slavery bizarre premise, that a person's body may be someone else's property, invites rich storytelling .
When Northup wakes up after being drugged and betrayed by two superficial acquaintances, he has, in the 1840s U.S. not have a chance. He is a black man without papers, without the expensive clothes we've seen him in before. "You are a fugitive - slave - from Georgia!" Is the slave trader screaming and beat into words as a spell with a paddle. The body becomes a prison. He gets undressed, and dressed as a slave. He loses his real name.
At the slave auction where Solomon eventually ends. It not people the slave traders show up, but the muscles, flesh and limbs with different merits. The violence, carried out with whips, ropes and kind, keeps coming back. But we must also see what happens afterwards: the pain, the wounds bathed and the crippling shame of those who are powerless beside .
The white people that Solomon Northup meets on his odyssey in hell makes you think of the three monkeys who do not hear, do not see and do not say anything, locked in a system they are unable to question : Ford ( Benedict Cumberbatch ), the slave owner with a bleeding conscience, during whale Tibeats (Paul Dano ) the epitome of a weak talented racist, and so Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender ), a brutal sadist who are inclined towards Luke. But even if Northrup conceal their identity as highly skilled in order to avoid provoking more violence, he disturbs their circles .
McQueen and Sean Bobbitt, photographer in all brit's films, working with contrasts. Intrusive images in natural light set against the tableau - like compositions close to traditional painting or set-ups in front of a photographer. A desperate sexual encounter in the slave barracks set against images of Solomon and his wife in a bed that appears to be supernaturally clean in comparison. Picturesque images of mansions embedded in greenery, sunlight and chirping of birds set against the abuse that goes on there.
The film's greatest moment is the scene where Northup being hanged in a tree after assaulting a guard. He escapes lynching, but must remain a full day as punishment, on the toe, to avoid being suffocated by the rigged noose. In almost three minutes, we hear only his wheezing, and it is a long time in a movie. Meanwhile the other slaves manages their chores in the background. Children noise on a distance. A foreman wandering around. One of the slaves creeping quickly up with water for Solomon. The lady of the house watching from her balcony. The sun has time to lose.
Chiwetel Ejiofor does a heroic deed when he portrays Northups struggle to stay alive. It is on his shoulders the film rests, even if the whole cast is amazing, especially Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender. The only objection, which probably mostly about the ingrained expectation, is that it adds a damper on the strong emotions in the final scene, which feels static. It is also an illustration of a convulsively restored dignity.
Anna Karenina (2012)
Joe Wright does a classic in theater
Joe Wright chose to film version of Tolstoy's gigantic work Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley in the lead role.
The information contained in the book about 900 pages can not squeeze in a little over two hours long feature film. Wright's solution to it all is an unrealistic film. Where we are at an early stage will see how he selected the movie to play out like in a theater. The whole film is a constructed scenery-world as opposed to a more conventional film version. The extras draws attention to itself by appearing strikingly coordinated instead to blend. This is not a heavy film, it is built on a light almost playful manner, and the two hours inside the theater flows easily past my retinas. Scene changes are resourceful, with this grip has distanced Wright captured the high society as in a theater. The illusion the theater portrays exemplifies aristocracy dark facades and false game. The whole movie is like a kind of hybrid between reality and theater, as actors can suddenly go from a stage into the wild for real outdoor scenes. The result is engaging and provocative.
Keira Knightley makes a somewhat same piece Anna Karenina but carries the role with dignity. Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the role of Vronskij I have difficulty with and he feels more like a blonde doll than the passionate man he really should portray. The film's short running time meant that I was almost sure that the film almost exclusively would highlight, was the interaction between Anna and Vronskij. The book describes the interaction between Levin and Kitty lovingly and with depth. This is portrayed in an acceptable way the film's length notwithstanding. Obviously, had the couple's life in the countryside and Levin's love and closeness to agriculture have been plausible to develop something. Then I know that Levin in the book, was an own interpretation of Tolstoy himself, I am somewhat surprised and even disappointed when Domhnall Gleeson shows up with long orange hair in the role of Levin. Alicia Vikander do have an impressive interpretation of Levin's wife Kitty and spreads heat seemingly effortlessly. She and Jude Law in the role of Karenin is in my opinion the show's primary retention.
Hunting scenes with Levin and Oblonskij, was in the book, my favorite chapter. The descriptions made me experience both nature and the surroundings with all my senses. When this scene appears in the movie is the feeling of presence I found in the book that has been washed away. The film has only this one scene that is also cold and unemotional, and according to me, the movie would have coped better without it. After Anna's death Vronskij, in the book, chose to enlist as a soldier. He went to Serbia to fight in the Russo-Turkish War. This important event I personally think is missing in the film. The incident shows how he is affected by Anna's death and how he as a soldier also was ready to die.
In the 1800s, when the book was written, women were seen with today's eyes, it is hard in the community in many arenas. In that Tolstoy wrote that although women have extramarital love affairs could possibly be see Tolstoy as an innovative feminist. This can be seen as contradictory by how he in the book with a somewhat slow painful tone portrayed women, their duties and services. In a comparison between Tolstoy's descriptions of women and animals such as dogs and horses, it would be visible to the animal descriptions are much more detailed and loving.
With eyes on the religious perspective, it becomes visible that the film is the prominent religious arguments, as the characters engage in, dimmed. The book describes Levin's difficulties in the search for their faith very prominent, but in the movie, however, there is not even included. The only visible issue in both the book and the movie is how Karenin contend with including guilt about adultery. Many of the male characters are very involved in politics and social issues in the film, we see no hint of this.
The suit in the film, which is created by Jacqueline Durran is grand and sensational fabulous and generated an Oscar.
A thought that is might be interesting is that what if Wright had made an interpretation and let Anna live happily ever after, instead of letting her fall in front of the train. According to one tale, it is said that when the first French translation translator became so enamored of Anna Karenina, that he just could not let her fall in front of the train but thus allowed her to survive.
Laurence Anyways (2012)
A beautiful love story with dazzling camera angels
Laurence Anyways is a Canadian film written in French by Xavier Dolan.
The film is about Laurence and his girlfriend Fred living a life characterized by youthful happiness in the eighties France. Their lives change drastically when Laurence says that he is a transsexual. Fred does not know how to handle the situation, but because she loves Laurence, she chooses to stay with him and try to get it to work. His surroundings feel like they are losing the Laurence they know when he comes out, he loses his job and his mom does not want to meet him. Behind a wall of liberal good nature he will be disowned by his relatives. Somewhere along the way Fred and Laurence separate from each other.
The story takes place over ten years, and during that time so we moved between France and the United States. This moving is very understated in the film, and the film feels in any way authentic and present throughout the story. During these ten years, so meeting and parting Laurence and Fred for the unexpected assistance, and we may view a unique love story.
The film has a running time of over two and a half hours and with such a long time it is easy to get bored. But no, "Laurence Anyways" is a really good standards throughout the movie and I can hardly believe that almost three hours passed when the credits roll by. I sit there, with a sob in his throat and goose bumps on your arm, dumbfounded over the incredibly beautiful film I have just viewed. The film mixes precise accuracy with great seriousness. This creates a comfortable dynamics There are also contrasts between camera postures that make this film so lovable. It goes from standstill almost mechanical Kubrick-inspired angles, hand-held, shaky and easily zoomed in angles. While this creates a dynamic of contrasts that are rarely seen in today's movies. In today's unisex society fits this film perfectly, and Dolan have given all the characters androgynous name.
This Dolan movie you not consumes , you see it, rejoice and enjoy it, you remember it for its accuracy, we love it.
Best actor according to me: Suzanne Clément for the role of Frédérique.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
A beautiful and amazing journey in a person's memory and dreams
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind is American drama film directed by Michel Gondry.
Suddenly Joel discovers that his girlfriend Clementine has erased all her memories of him and their tumultuous relationship by undergoing an experimental treatment. In desperation, Joel contacts the company that carried out the treatment and ask to get the same procedure done on him to get rid of all memories of the same thing. When memories are and go through Joel's head, he discovers why he fell in love with Clementine from the start.
This movie - can not be anything else than a beautiful and amazing journey in a person's memory and dreams. Director Michel Gondry shows here his visual inventiveness but also excellent personal trainer. Kate Winslet shines perfectly in the role of the impulsive and extremely extroverted Clementine. Jim Carrey, as you usually see in cheesy overplayed comedy, show here the ability to do a little more personal and dark matter when he plays the introverted, gloomy and slightly smug Joel. To only see the movie once must be a huge loss, I've seen it several times and always find something new with it. It is necessary to be alert when you see this film - it takes great mental power to successfully connect everything that happens. The first time you see the movie you think it is very messy and cluttered scenes are completely mismatched. But on closer reflection, everything is extremely well thought out and every scene is absolutely right. The last ten minutes of the film are the hardest to watch - then tied the whole course of events in the movie together and the pieces are in place. This is a masterpiece - Michel Gondry's best, Jim Carrey's best and Absolutely Kate Winslet's best.
The film's title comes from a poem by Alexander Pope called Eloisa to Abelard and is read by Kirsten Dunst's role in the film - How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot; Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
Best actor according to me: Kate Winslet for the role of Clementine.
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (2011)
Fantastic movie with brilliant angels.
A Separation is an Iranian drama film about Nader and Simin who have been married for 14 years and together they have the eleven-year-old daughter Termeh. Simin wants to emigrate, as Nader did not want when he has his father who suffers from Alzheimer's in Iran. Simin applying for a divorce, but the application is rejected, and then she moved back to her parents. When Nader working on day and Simin moved so there is no one to take care of his father. Nader hires Razieh then, a young pregnant woman that should take care of his father on the day. One day Nader comes home to find his father unconscious on the floor with one arm tied to the bed, Razieh is not in sight of the house, she will be back later, but then Nader throw her out, he does not want to do with her. Razieh must go into the emergency room because she gets severe pain in the stomach, it turns out that she had a miscarriage and Nader is accused of the murder of the fetus but he denies knowing that he knew Razieh was pregnant.
This movie is really well made with fantastic actor. It feels a little different with a movie in Farsi and they take a while before you get used to it. This whole movie is filmed in absolutely fantastic angles, every scene is a work of art in itself, this will increase the score significantly! Almost every actor is impressive and there's actually not a bad actor. The film was a hit with critics and gained a lot of positive reviews, it has for example 95 MetaCore on 41 reviews, making it the film with the best ratings in 2011.
Best actor according to me: Ali-Asghar Shahbazi for the role of Nader's father.