Help! I'm obsessed with this movie and my love for it doesn't seem to have an expiring date!
It's so unique, the characters are so tenderly irrational, the images are full of desire and I simply love the camera work here - the city with its hyperactivity, these overwhelming cascades of neon light and its fragmentic reality is being portrayed as this place in which anything seems possible and yet so unreachable. Besides, I dare you to name me one…
Ein unaufhaltsamer Fluss der Blicke.
Obwohl wir in Michael Snows avantgardistischem Experimental-Film scheinbar bloß 43 Minuten lang auf eine Wand schauen, starren wir dabei sicherlich keine Löcher in die Luft. 'Wavelength' ist ein Rorschach-Test, der in seiner Unausstehlichkeit bezwungen werden will, sein stoisches Nichts im Gewand einer zerebralen Provokation nur vortäuscht und uns doch gleichzeitig die Einladung zum engagierten Drift offen anbietet.
Die Idee des Films ist die einer vorgegaukelten Kontinuität - ein sich allmählich steigernder Sog interessiert an der…
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There are movies which rely only on a few key scenes to keep the audience magnetized - and then there is 'Gone Girl'. I can only compliment it by stating that each and every scene felt to some extent vital either pushing the developement of the plot one step further or enriching the characters with more depth. It's hard to go into detail without giving too much away, so let's just say the tension - sometimes subliminal, sometimes…
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Do you know that feeling when even at your first time experiencing a movie you can relatively easy put the finger on its flaws, but after watching through it you still leave the theater in absolute awe? This was one of those experiences!
Yes, the movie is flawed: almost everytime a character opens his mouth it doesn't sound like a real human being, but more like a script and together with the very dialogue-heavy exposition the beginning of…
