Lions for Lambs
http://www.lionsforlambsmovie.com/
I got to see an advanced screening of this film last night. Its very hard to do a film about current events as the way films get made, rarely allows them to be done quickly. So this film is an exception.
I did like how the story was written. Three separate stories are weaved together and all of them are intertwined. Each character has their impacts on each other and on the world.
The film itself is very dialog heavy. The only sequences with any real film action involve a new military mission in Afghanistan. The film doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know about how we got into the war and the bad judgment of our elected leaders and press. But we are drawn closer to the people in the film who represent these characters.
With the failed U.S. policies, a complacent media and a society that has become apathetic; the climax just doesn't deliver the emotional gut punch it should, though it tried. But, maybe that's the point?
I'd say that overall, this film's biggest strength is a script that is able to interweave these stories together without confusing the audience. The look of the film is good and the production values seemed polished, but that may be because the last few films I've seen have been indies.
Overall, it's enjoyable enough but I felt like it just need more development to work up to the necessary emotion.
The Geographer in me, liked that the three interlinked stories take place simultaneously in different areas of the planet. But the montage of images that Streep experiences from her cab window on her way to the office did not seem to make sense geographically. And oddly enough, I wondered to myself when she hailed the cab if as an actor, working in DC, if she could figure out the zone system. (Clearly, I've been here too long.)
I got to see an advanced screening of this film last night. Its very hard to do a film about current events as the way films get made, rarely allows them to be done quickly. So this film is an exception.
I did like how the story was written. Three separate stories are weaved together and all of them are intertwined. Each character has their impacts on each other and on the world.
The film itself is very dialog heavy. The only sequences with any real film action involve a new military mission in Afghanistan. The film doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know about how we got into the war and the bad judgment of our elected leaders and press. But we are drawn closer to the people in the film who represent these characters.
With the failed U.S. policies, a complacent media and a society that has become apathetic; the climax just doesn't deliver the emotional gut punch it should, though it tried. But, maybe that's the point?
I'd say that overall, this film's biggest strength is a script that is able to interweave these stories together without confusing the audience. The look of the film is good and the production values seemed polished, but that may be because the last few films I've seen have been indies.
Overall, it's enjoyable enough but I felt like it just need more development to work up to the necessary emotion.
The Geographer in me, liked that the three interlinked stories take place simultaneously in different areas of the planet. But the montage of images that Streep experiences from her cab window on her way to the office did not seem to make sense geographically. And oddly enough, I wondered to myself when she hailed the cab if as an actor, working in DC, if she could figure out the zone system. (Clearly, I've been here too long.)