shockingly found in a tobacco shop with two other films for the price of 9.99 € uro. Even today I wonder if anyone has ever noticed the masterpiece that he had under his eyes, and if the authors of this initiative never came to regret the mismanagement of the affair. Most likely this will never happen, so I hope to make up a small part of the damage as best I can trying to spread this pearl.
What I'm talking about? Of "Avalon", a spectacular live-action film in cult director Mamoru Oshii, to whom we owe such masterpieces as the animated film "Ghost in the Shell " and the recent "The Sky Crawlers - knights the sky "and the inspiration that his works have attributed to the Wachowski brothers for their cyber trilogy" The Matrix. "Peculiarities of this work is that it is a film shot with actors in flesh and bones, the first in the career of this master of Japanese.
debut that seems to be successful, given that "Avalon" was shown out of competition at the 54th Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
Everything is set in the future classic next unnamed, in the classic but decadent hyper Europe (this time it is up to Poland), maladjusted people who inhabited by classics lead a life on the edge of the classical law. Among young people is the popular virtual reality game Avalon, which, meeting in special bands, you can experience first-person experience in war, make money and even die. The young Ash ( Małgorzata Foremniak ) is determined at all costs to get into Class A, the highest level of Avalon, with the aim of finding the loved Murphy whose mind is lost in the network.
Never change a winning team, so even when it ventures into a new business side, the brilliant Oshii does not abandon the typical issues of his film (the actual knowledge between reality and perception, what is the soul, what moves the human is the true Ralt what we are experiencing?), nor his directorial style slow and thoughtful. As in all his works, here is a Basset Hound dog breed, canine favorite of the director - he also owns one named Gabriel. And how not to mention the impressive music of Kenji Kawai? Here the Japanese musician signed one of his best scores, making a cameo in a dele addirittua final scenes.
Although characterized by a fairly monotonous acting, this film has an absolute technical control. It is true that the director may seem slow at times, that certain sequence remember too much anime (cartoons and movies are two different things, do not forget), but deny the undeniable expressiveness that everything gets to the end vision is punishable as a crime capital. Evocative scenes, special effects that resemble in every respect with which each of the games we grew up, a picture that does justice to the various levels of reality represented very well taken care of and a story by screenwriter Kazunori Ito, who signed the subject with the director. Who could ask for anything more? One of the animated films of Oshii, perhaps, the end is there that the director / philosopher with almond eyes gave his best, but you have to make do with what is on offer. And given the results, well, I would be satisfied more often!
A film that I would not recommend at all, despite its beauty. Oshii is a director who should be treated with patience and vision, and who does not know the full visual adventure in this experiment so that he wanted to give us can be risky. If you want to see a bit 'of good science fiction can make us think - even if not by its own final version of the questions going on - this is the movie for you.
Taken from true story of Christopher McCandless, told in the novel In the land of extreme Jon Krakauer, a wealthy young man graduated from Emory University in social sciences in 1990, giving all his possessions all'Oxfam to undertake a journey into the land of extremes' Alaska, in hopes of walking away from a dysfunctional family and hypocrisies of society. On his way he meets with unique characters, from which he learns (or sign in) particular life lessons, to reach the designated destination. There they will meet their death (the causes are still unclear, but is expected to be accidentally poisoned after ingesting the seeds of a poisonous plant), and understand that true happiness is only shared with other people ( Happines only real shared When he says at the end of the film, Happiness is only real when shared ).
Personally, I think this movie hypocrisy continues. It 'an opinion that I was hated by many estimators of this film, but my opinion has not changed over the years. So take advantage of the space of my blog to rant at full speed, because now no one can stop me.
worry, my hatred is justified. First
do not understand why Sean Penn wanted to direct this film. He, a highest paid actors in the world (not critical to this, in fact, I think it's an excellent performer, and his large pay is more than deserved), because it has to make a movie that says there is no true happiness in material things surrounding the man? I could understand if to lead a lifestyle like Mahatma Gandhi, or give up his house or his luxury sports car - things that did not - but because it seems that the very existence leads to pleasure-seeking rich man (and I believe, yet I I would do the same in his place) I find this particular beginning of the great hypocrisies of this film. A small survey that only a thorough pain in the ass like me could pull out, but it is also a particular bothered me.
aside then that I really think the theme of freedom (such as love, now abused beyond endurance and retract), this product has brought a myriad of problems within the company have made me hate my heart. I do not claim to possess the absolute reason on my side, but since I have not heard anything but praise about this film, I finally have my say.
do not understand, firstly, how one can be devoted to a character like this - without disgracing the memory of the real Christopher, I call only to his counterpart in the film played by Emile Hirsch. A young man scarred by life, how many, and that as few decides to make a sharp cut radically changing the course of his destiny. What I saw in the movie Penn has been a person of quite irritating personality, ready to launch phrases pseudo random philosophizing, however, messages with very obvious and very repetitive. Also because of a director may not be up to what he wanted, and that has increased the antipathy I felt towards the protagonist of this story (in which the microscena eat the apple has been a pain visual and auditory).
Not to mention also the supporting actors, even those quite unnecessary. From the couple of lunatics who meets the river (well come on, she has shown at least two boobs not bad, if we honest), thresher to cheat - but look at the case full of good feelings. Moving on to the depressed middle-aged hippie couple of characters that made me swear since their first appearance on the screen (I am already way to see the heavy metal concerts forties, let alone two poor fools who still believe in living in the sixties and they wonder why their life is not clear and serene as they would like), and the young girl with dreams singer (of course, and it will be making them realize that life, beauty).
The final coup de grace, however, what made me realize that there was no hope of rising, was the meeting with the veteran lost in their memories, which of course can only teach Christopher to look forward again to discover the beauty of life. Well, yes. It lacked only Pollyhanna sticking from the corner and hopped the picture was perfect.
these were only to go wrong. Another scene that made me start swearing terrible was that which burned the money. Provocation already old at the time of Pink Floyd, then imagine in 2007. To annoy me is not just a repeat something so blatantly obvious already from the first few minutes of film (but enough already to a well deserved harsh criticism), but also the complacency of a provocation in itself so far that is denied immediately after (as Christopher finds himself working in a McDonald? That is really a sign of freedom, free of all hypocrisy). And then you think ... with all the people that was working hard to get money, this idiot burn them (of course, had donated millemila more to charity, but the good writer has decided to further highlight the scene with a dazzling rhetoric beyond measure). Giving to charity even those not? Or, best of all, if you really made him sick, the money could give them to me. But no, the poignant poetry of this film would be ruined ... but please ...
Continue the journey to the death of the protagonist. And there comes the final message, which I repeat re: happiness is only real when shared. A bit 'like saying the sky is blue only when the clouds do not cover it. Obviousness.
Will that I had a life that made me understand this thing for years and years ago, the fact remains that in the end there was nothing that could move me. Only minutes and minutes of tedious viewing, which ended with a trivial and obvious message. I admit, maybe some people have found a truth that did not know before watching this movie ... but I will I could not help but be affected by something I thought was common ground for years. It's like hearing a child's first grade that tells you that two plus two equals four. Bravo small, but I got to know years before you. So, it has had any effect on me. Maybe I'll be too
tax bado too much technique and not the actual message ... filmmaking but also includes knowing the various cinematic techniques. And expect to be used in a manner acceptable (especially with a film that takes as seriously as this Into the wild) to send a message it seems to me the least. Otherwise, the films of Ed Wood and Uwe Boll just waiting to be viewed again.
And for all those who give me a fanboy because of movies like hosannas The Dark Knight and Watchmen ... Well, go ahead. In part it is true. At least those movies are made for people who love that genre and products derived therefrom, that are designed for fun (because let's face it, in the end the main thing that is required of a film is to entertain for an average of two hours, to the highbrow serves no purpose), made by craftsman who know how to do their job well and, for those who want to take, with its own message perfectly tested and not at all rhetorical.
Even so, I doubt that anyone has accused me of not understanding the beauty of the film by Penn never gave me his car, his collection of DVDs or her entire bank account, thus showing that they are linked to material goods ( sure, the blame will surely society requires that this way of life).
If we really want to hear about modern heroes, there are many workers who maintain a family with only eight hundred euro a month. On them though, you are spending a few pages and film.
There will, however, something even a single character, except that in this chaos? A Yes. The policeman that captures Christopher on the train and the stick. Not because I wanted to do what I do personally after forty minutes Smarronando chin, but because among the gang of fools made up to it I found the only one who really made something of his life, perhaps for the reason mentioned a paragraph ago. But maybe it was a figure too ordinary to be equal to the depth of the other ... a sinister servant of the state, as opposed to a depressed rich man, has nothing to teach.
At least that's my opinion. If I offended anyone in my emphasis without realizing it, I apologize from now.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are talking about a little gem. A plastic, not well defined, not free of defects or inaccuracies ... but full of desire to tell and to be seen, with such expressive power that makes one forget the any possible shortcomings or deficiencies. E ' Tekkonkinkreet - alone against all. Do not worry dell'impronunciabile title (translated would reinforced concrete), because it contains within it what is flowing gold.
This spectacular animated film trilogy was adapted from the award-winning manga by Taiyo Matsumoto, which unfortunately I have only the first volume. In fact, the last two numbers are never released in the comics that I usually hang out, so I could not read the work starting in a complete (though in the DVD I found a flyer that advertised the release of all volumes. .. mah ...). So I do not want, but I am compelled to comment all as a product designed exclusively for the big screen, without references or links to the work of the base.
The story speaks of Nero (original Kuro) and White (Shiro), two orphans living on the streets of Treasure Town, known by the name of Cats and for being the author of several incidents of juvenile delinquency. The first is apparently a guy hard and strong, while the second is his younger brother was eleven years old, but with the mental age of a child of three. Everything changes when a group of yakuza in order to increase the profits of their illegal activities, thanks to the advice of a mysterious man named Mr. and slimy snake decided to open an amusement park in downtown Treasury. But to do so must first remove the two cats, and the consequences will be catastrophic ...
It 's a movie that contains within itself many issues, but what each frame rails is the theme of lost innocence, and how it separates the look of a child (the wild life and anarchic City Treasury) to that of an adult cold and calculating (the organization of the yakuza). The stretch of the characters, deliberately childlike and disproportionate, tends to recall the concept.
And it does so using even a crude and violent representation of events, increasing the visual contrast that stands by the viewer these items. Possimao say that it truly is the mistress of violence (both physical and psychological), and only sincere primordial instinct of mankind, can not escape the reminder that not even the most innocent child.
But the real solution is a balance between everything mentioned so far. And it is this nice and simple control that allows the two protagonists find themselves in a final cathartic and liberating, finally leaving that world of absolute and prevented the current of life flowing into the sea real existence. And that's why the film ends on a beach.
The rookie Michael Arias (esoriente as a director, but already author of the wonders of digital The Prince of Egypt and producer of animated films in the Animatrix episodes ), an American of Japanese origin but by adoption, moves his characters with the awkwardness of a boy that goes to the first time on a bike, perhaps crafting a final product much more than him, but managing every single bee in touch with each other and security. Because everything can be said about this film, but that is not true.
Another winning element is finest in animation, which mixes manera magistral in traditional animation and computer graphics, giving sequences and dizzying camera movements that make it more likely a live-action film (damn, the initial pursuit MDP seemed davero a steadicam!). Never has a special effect totally end in itself, but all of the proper end of history and of the whole. also good music for the British duo Plaid, and this song in the credits Aru machi no Gunji j-rock group composed of Asian Kung-fu Generation.
An anime recommended to all those who will leave behind prejudices and pretextual, leaving dip in the chaotic and violent world of quetsi two cats.
In horror movies, not independent, the marginalized subject who tries to make his way among the various extracts in order to create a social friend from torture and massacres, was used as the ketchup on french fries ... too. And in the long run, by dint of binge securities with such features s'incappa in the risk of an uncomfortable indigestion, as well as a series of stereotyped genre.
May , written and directed by Lucky McKee (director of The Woods and malignant Creature, the tenth episode of Masters of Horrors), is guilty of all three.
The film speaks of May (Angela Bettis), a girl all my life suffers from eye problems, which made it impossible for the relationship with their peers. His only friend is a doll regalatale by his mother, with whom he speaks as if it were a real person. All goes well until it fails two reports, one with what looked like the boy of her dreams (Jeremy Sisto), and the second with a lesbian leaves his co-worker (Anna Faris). This helps in making them give birth to the idea that people as a whole are horrible, and that some parts separate from the rest body can give the true beauty. Thus begins a vicious massacre implements to create the perfect friend.
had been in many, almost all belonging mainly to the cultural category of boorish jocks alternative to recommend this film. Needless to say, at the end of vision came to me want to track them down one by one, tie them to a chair with his eyes wide open Clockwork Orange style , and submit to a vision of non-stop Videodrome, Zombi , Let and enter Suicide circle. Those were the shit about horror in which the company was taking the piss outspoken, not like in this rambling film horror (but call it belongs to that genre is a big word) suitable for teenagers who think they are the misunderstood geniuses just because they have no girl worthy of his attention.
And to think that maybe with a little arrangement, could come up with something decent. But there are many outstanding issues.
fact I can not understand why parents decide to help a child with a bulky bandage applying eye problem as a pirate, and who hope to preserve his sanity, giving her a doll and saying, "If you do not have the friends, then create them. " I still do not understand how did an individual obviously mentally disturbed as May to get a job as a veterinarian (and therefore at a public agency must ensure security on their employees), and can not imagine what has the urge to take this career and to do some studies (there would be so even to tell the unfolding of his life as a student, and his growing inability of approaching with his fellows). Even the secondary characters are no less impressive, showing a seminesistente psychology and characterization, which expires in pathetic. As Adam, boy falls in love in May, fans of Dario Argento - would be curious to know what period of our national director appreciate - and directorial ambitions, dedicated to creating short films of questionable taste (a snog between two lovers who turns into a cannibal feast), or lesbian colleague Polly, which gives rise to some of the most stupid dialogue that I have to hear the envy of many of our local products to adolescents.
The problem at the sight of the main character looks like a good excuse to put a pretext for launching of exclusion, without which it is reflected throughout the film. If not in a small and trivial final flash, and so ridiculous that this work brings to bear her being stupid and miserable, and most importantly, how to be pleased with that.
This, in practice, it is May . The fair and the banality of nowhere, trying to fill this void with his blood the ultimate orgy of well-publicized but ultimately disappointing, too. If you really want to see it now because of this kind there is not much to see do well in the end we must look first to criticize. But if the hands have more than one title, you're undecided on what to watch, and among the various possibilities is May, well, then you already know what to discard. How would
The works of Alan Moore the journeyman always enmeshed in the world of cinema, though not always in a positive way. It must be said that those long-haired bearded man of great works are so deeply rooted in the nature of comic strips to make difficult any faithful transposition but retain, however, a variety of reading levels that, if well exploited, can help. In fact, all the thinking (or rather, saw the hallucinatory mind) that have always characterized the English author's work are supported by a well-structured and compelling storyline. Suffice then omit the first and concentrate fully on the second, to have a healthy product of pure entertainment - which ultimately does not hurt, if done right at least ...
be reckoned with but a hardcore fan who deny the work of the first variation (which, although on rare occasions, I join I also sadly), and the inability of the people who work behind. For my part, however, I can say I found very fighevole The true story of Jack the Ripper the Hughes brothers, very disappointing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and annoying beyond all manner V for Vendetta. So I admit that after learning that Zack Snyder (director of the remake of Dawn of the Dead and 300) would have transposed his masterpiece, Watchmen on the big screen I sweated cold ...
Incredi but true, for once my catastrophic predictions have proved wrong.
Snyder's work has left me, unlike other fanboys of the original, extremely satisfied. Maybe because my expectations were so low as to make every thing done well is a success, but the film I was very polite, much more so many films out that year. Enough to buy at full price supercazzuta the double-disc edition on DVD and wait with anticipation the release of the director's cut - if it ever comes.
Eye, I'm not saying it's a masterpiece - even if it comes close. It 's a good movie despite its flaws. Snyder, a differnza Moore, can not be called a genius, but proves to be an excellent craftsman - sometimes more important thing - and he knew the source material. Each frame is artfully designed and supported by a photograph that leaves you flabbergasted in more scenes. Then, the film boasts a great story, very well maintained, while the reflections were cut and kept the essentials. That, however, are not few, so the film is more than just a film of pure entertainment, and its limits of which are perfectly conscious attempt to bring the viewer Shores higher.
But let's be clear ... Snyder, as he had demonstrated disappointing in 300, has a strong mind tamarro, and is therefore tamarri to lord it all for two and half hours of film. Perfectly choreographed fights, special effects to the nth degree, extreme violence and brand visual extremely gloomy. All the things they do enjoy every lover of comics and they make you jump for joy to the kids we were crunching popcorn all of us. Because, remember, as we strive to make educated and pippaioli cinephiles, film like any art form is born in its most popular, and it is this register which must pass in order to give his real message.
But we come to the party to many of you most interested ... differences with the comic. Yes, there are many, and it made me very happy. Personally, I hate movies that meet the basic material too, because I think a director should be given a personal vision of the thing. This is one reason that made me hate heart heart Sin City. Of course, in our case, the references to Watchmen paper there are, inevitably from a certain point of view, but many scenes have been added (see omics of Comedy at the beginning of the film), and the final has been totally changed. Yeah, the ending ... but it was a great loss. Yes, because in these works, not so much the importance as , but because . And all the questions that left the comic, are largely maintained even with this new ending.
If I criticize something, we want to do one of microscene end (the one who stands in the discovery of the mysterious final plan, and the actual end), and too politically correct to demand anything, far from the harrowing vision made by Moore . Other
attention should be given to the music. Unfortunately not the original ones by Tyler Bates, quite anonymous, but those apparenenti pop culture and not emphasizing the various scenes. Suffice it to quote The Time They Are 'A Changing by Bob Dylan in grandiloquent titles, The Sound Of Silence Art Garfunkel during the funeral of Comedy, gospel version of Jeff Buckley Alleluhja during the sex scene of the most insane story, or quote from Apocalypse now with Ride of Wagner's Valkyries , not counting the Rex belonging to Requiem by Mozart. The only drawback of the song My chemical romance in the credits, but you can not have it all.
also a pity for the dismal failure of the public here in Italy - just to camabiare - where the film was ignominiously malcagato in every front. But to contribute to the commercial flop of the work has also been its excessive cost, $ 130 million! Built on a total of 187 million. And, classical, the opposition to Moore on the film and the removal of his name in their titles.
