NOTES
- ART IMPRESSIONS 5
KOSMOPOLIS
Film
based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLilo
Mark
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I
like film Kosmopolis because I love DeLilo. I love everything he wrote. On my
eternal list of authors, Thomas Man is on a first place and the following nine
places are empty. But I am seriously thinking now to put Don DeLilo on a second
place. His sentences are beautiful, his literary world is different, brave and humane.
His discourse is elusive.
English language in a novel and in a movie is complex and it’s difficult, if you are not a native speaker, to follow
the story, without English subtitle. It’s perfect to improve lexical knowledge.
Film
is relaying in a great extent on a book. The book got one of the possible visualizations.
DJANGO UNCHAINED
Tarantino’s
film
Mark
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Hm,
a Hollywood is only a Hollywood and I mean it in a very negative way. It rarely
goes beyond its cliches. When I watch Hollywood movie, that is rare exception.
Tarantino ones made a great movie – ‘Pulp Fiction’, and after that maybe ‘4 rooms’ isn't bad.
But
latest pieces of art, including ‘Django Unchained’ are pretty much under this
director’s talent. I suppose that he chose pragmatism over the art. Some people
just do that, in some sensitive period of their life, without good reason. And
they abandon their own desires and dreams. Just let them go.
There is a lot of violence in a movie, but that's often funny, like in a cartoons. I like it.
Anyway…
‘Django’ is not a bad movie. It has some impressive scenes, colorful and
beautiful. Samuel L. Jackson acting is superb and Leonardo de Caprio is very good as we used from him. Story is too simple and lame, like
somebody was lazy to work on it.
FLESH
AND BLOOD
Paul
Verhoeven’s film
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Verhoeven
is almost my new Bergman, but almost. After great ‘Turkish Delight’ I think
that I like this film even better. He deliberately chose 15th
century for the movie events, because then, human being was mostly – flesh and
blood. It was normal and regularly to
kill, to cut body parts, to rape… To treat the body like it is nothing special,
almost as an object. Soul existed, but it was hidden. As like the people repressed it somewhere, because they wanted to be highly successful in war and to give
their maximum. Soul would only be an obstacle so they put it aside. Young
Jennifer Jason Li is gorgeous and Rutger Hauer always is. I like Verhoeven’s
sharpness, sarcasm, braveness… He shows a bare ugly truth and do not make any
compromises.
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