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timepiececlockI've got two words for you:
"Field fuck!"
Ohhhhhh yeah.
A brief review:
That was certainly interesting. It's a movie that lingers in your consciousness after you leave the theater, not particularly because of the moral/philosophical questions raised, but because of the style and overall emotional impression the film leaves you with. It's both innocuous and dramatic. Most of all, it really makes you feel like you're out there: breathing dust and sand, dying of heat, and having the absolute worst time of your life.
I can't think of a single thing in this movie that misfired. The acting was great. The script was great. The soundtrack was fucking awesome. Visually, the movie was very balanced, light and dark with surreal and harsh.
Still, I think I'd give it an A-. I'm not sure why exactly, because I can't think how it could have been done better, but at the same time I know I've seen a few films just a little greater than this one, and they get the A+ score.
Did I mention this movie was funny? It was. Funnier than I expected.
I think my favorite scene in the movie was the meeting with the horse. I've never read the book so I don't know if that happened or not, but I know what it meant for the film's symbolism: he was the horse, covered in oil and lost in desert.
EDIT: Oh, and if you need some incentive to see this movie, let me tell you about the gratuitous naked man skin that populates the entire film. I swear, there's a scene about 1/3 of the way through where, for no reason, the camera cuts to a shot of J.G.'s character, shirtless, in the middle of camp. He walks about ten feet, the camera going with him. Then the shot cuts to something else.
Just pointless gratuitous naked J.G. And believe me you see a LOT more than chest in this movie.
"Field fuck!"
Ohhhhhh yeah.
A brief review:
That was certainly interesting. It's a movie that lingers in your consciousness after you leave the theater, not particularly because of the moral/philosophical questions raised, but because of the style and overall emotional impression the film leaves you with. It's both innocuous and dramatic. Most of all, it really makes you feel like you're out there: breathing dust and sand, dying of heat, and having the absolute worst time of your life.
I can't think of a single thing in this movie that misfired. The acting was great. The script was great. The soundtrack was fucking awesome. Visually, the movie was very balanced, light and dark with surreal and harsh.
Still, I think I'd give it an A-. I'm not sure why exactly, because I can't think how it could have been done better, but at the same time I know I've seen a few films just a little greater than this one, and they get the A+ score.
Did I mention this movie was funny? It was. Funnier than I expected.
I think my favorite scene in the movie was the meeting with the horse. I've never read the book so I don't know if that happened or not, but I know what it meant for the film's symbolism: he was the horse, covered in oil and lost in desert.
EDIT: Oh, and if you need some incentive to see this movie, let me tell you about the gratuitous naked man skin that populates the entire film. I swear, there's a scene about 1/3 of the way through where, for no reason, the camera cuts to a shot of J.G.'s character, shirtless, in the middle of camp. He walks about ten feet, the camera going with him. Then the shot cuts to something else.
Just pointless gratuitous naked J.G. And believe me you see a LOT more than chest in this movie.
