I really wanted to love this film, but I believe I went to watch it with surrealist expectations (haha),
It's pretty, I'll give it that, but it's... dull. Something I didn't expect from the guy who made films such as The Witch and The Lighthouse. The film tries to use the reference to "shadows" as a motiff, of a kind, but its... uninspired.
The count can be seen as a random monster, with dogs and rats and a mad man…
500 hundred days of summer for gay men.
Jokes aside, very beautiful film, with a great soundtrack. There are some absolutely amazing scenes, thanks to the beautiful photography, amazing wardrobe and a sublime acting performance by Daniel Craig. But I don't feel like there is much of a theme or character for us to latch on to, it feels a bit hazy, trying to do a bit to much for its own good.
Her is a movie about love. About what does it mean to love. About how do we live and what does it mean to live. How do we exist and what does it mean to exist. We are introduced to a world much like ours, with relationships very thin and subtle, very instataneous gratification, portraing very well what Bauman says its a liquid world. Through not facing the reality, through disconnection, we seek the easy way out and don't feel…
I had heard that this was a kind of "rereading" of Antonioni's Blow Up, but this description couldn't be less helpful. At first sight, they seem similar, but they couldn't be more different. Antonioni's work is much more of a mindgame, a thought provoking piece, an answerless riddle; De Palma's is still thought provoking, but in a different sense, closer to a good Sherlock Holmes novel, where you feel you are uncovering the mistery pieces along with the main character.…
