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.
0 comments:
Post a Comment