I listened to the audio commentary this time, thus becoming much more aware of the cinematography, which is claustrophobic, concise, direct, intense, disturbed, powerful, and most of all, absolutely beautiful.
I became acutely aware of the purpose of each character this time. The man, I saw him as possessive, but at a complete loss in the act of possessing and always driven to possess. The Wife I understood as fleeing from possession and searching for possession; she is ever the…
"Hebben jullie niet gehoord van de dolle mens die op een klaarlichte dag een lantaarn aanstak, de markt op liep en onophoudelijk schreeuwde: 'Ik zoek God! Ik zoek God!' - Omdat er daar juist veel van die lieden bijeenstonden die niet aan God geloofden, verwekte dit groot gelach. Is hij soms verloren gegaan? zei de een. Is hij verdwaald als een kind? zei de ander. Of heeft hij zich verstopt? Is hij bang voor ons? Is hij scheep gegaan? naar…
All I hear is Beethoven's Ninth and the muffled sound of a thumping shoe.
"If there is a God, It isn't in you, or me, but in this little space in between."
The first composition took my interest and there I found myself watching a romantic film that I would never have even considered before. I think Erasmus' goddess of Folly and the nature of man has made me mad.
Everything in this film feels like a moving train. Unstoppable and constant it is going, not a moment do you want to have something…
Before I watched this film, I looked a bit into the reviews of the people I follow on this website, and the most intriguing of them was the review of the eloquent TomCivis, whom, in contrast to many others, gave this film 3,5 stars. In his review, he wrote that he thought the film was too black and white in its depiction of the Rich and of the Poor, and found the film therefore, in my interpretation, divorced from truth.…
