Hanna
I went to see Hanna today. Just from the trailers I knew it was supposed to be a thriller/spy movie with SF elements but it was not what I expceted. There were of course fight scenes and shootings and evil CIA - in a way plot is just like in Bourne movies only with teen girl. But it's visuals that surprised me.
I came home and the first thing I checked if it was really an American movie. It is actually a co-production. It was filmed in Germany. Actors were British, Irish and Australian. The whole movie has a such a artistic European film feel the whole CIA thing seems completely out of place.
There are parts of the movie that feel like a documentary, sometimes even like an unprofessional one. It looks live someone making a video of their trip. Usually in spy movies (or any American movies, really) you know you are in Europe because they chase each other through old city district where the famous building/statues/places are in plain view. It's all shiny and old. They never show modern outskirts of cities with industrial plants and smoking chimneys, the endless identical blocks of flats, the dirty bus stations covered with old posters. The everyday parts of cities not the touristy ones. In this movie that's all we saw. The part where most people live and where it's easier to hide without attracting attention.
There are several dialogues not in English that are subtitled. Wiegler surname is almost always said like in German. Only bad guys speak with American accent and there's not many people talking with it.
Tom Hollander seemed to have awesome time being a bad guy and it suits him. He and his helpers are the kind of guys who you cross the street when you see them. The mix of skinhead and jumpsuit, the neonazi feel. The kind of guys you are scared of in real life where I come from.
It somehow felt more real and scary then any other movie.
At the same time the movie plot is pretty predictable and in many ways ridiculous. If it wasn't for the acting I'd be facepalming through at least half of it.
In the end I was left wondering what Hanna will do now that she is left alone in unfamiliar place without any adult who could help her or at least to pretend to be her guardian. She can't just go to autorieties - she is still a wanted killer and they know she is abnormal. Even with Marissa's death there are those looking for her.
We are never shown what happened to the British family she traveled with. The rating was PG13 so I suppose they couldn't show kids being killed.
However I think managed to look past logic gaps and omissions and got seduced by visuals. Also realization that it really was a Brother Grimm fairytale with evil witch and the princess wondering through dark and dangerous world helped. If you look at it like that it is a beutiful fairytale.
Once upon a time there was a special girl who lived in the forest with her father and hunted deer. But an evil which who killed her mother wanted to kill the too. So the girl and her father split and run from the with. They defeated the evil henchman but the witch killed girl grandmother and her father. But the girl managed to defeat her in the end.
I had fun whatching that movie despite it's faults. I'm sure it's partly the feeling of nostalgia as so many things reminded me of home (they have a common space for drying your laundry in Germany too!). But mostly it was the fairy tale feel it had - the whole magical journey.
And I loved the way Saoirse was photographed. The stills from this movie would make beautiful posters.
I came home and the first thing I checked if it was really an American movie. It is actually a co-production. It was filmed in Germany. Actors were British, Irish and Australian. The whole movie has a such a artistic European film feel the whole CIA thing seems completely out of place.
There are parts of the movie that feel like a documentary, sometimes even like an unprofessional one. It looks live someone making a video of their trip. Usually in spy movies (or any American movies, really) you know you are in Europe because they chase each other through old city district where the famous building/statues/places are in plain view. It's all shiny and old. They never show modern outskirts of cities with industrial plants and smoking chimneys, the endless identical blocks of flats, the dirty bus stations covered with old posters. The everyday parts of cities not the touristy ones. In this movie that's all we saw. The part where most people live and where it's easier to hide without attracting attention.
There are several dialogues not in English that are subtitled. Wiegler surname is almost always said like in German. Only bad guys speak with American accent and there's not many people talking with it.
Tom Hollander seemed to have awesome time being a bad guy and it suits him. He and his helpers are the kind of guys who you cross the street when you see them. The mix of skinhead and jumpsuit, the neonazi feel. The kind of guys you are scared of in real life where I come from.
It somehow felt more real and scary then any other movie.
At the same time the movie plot is pretty predictable and in many ways ridiculous. If it wasn't for the acting I'd be facepalming through at least half of it.
In the end I was left wondering what Hanna will do now that she is left alone in unfamiliar place without any adult who could help her or at least to pretend to be her guardian. She can't just go to autorieties - she is still a wanted killer and they know she is abnormal. Even with Marissa's death there are those looking for her.
We are never shown what happened to the British family she traveled with. The rating was PG13 so I suppose they couldn't show kids being killed.
However I think managed to look past logic gaps and omissions and got seduced by visuals. Also realization that it really was a Brother Grimm fairytale with evil witch and the princess wondering through dark and dangerous world helped. If you look at it like that it is a beutiful fairytale.
Once upon a time there was a special girl who lived in the forest with her father and hunted deer. But an evil which who killed her mother wanted to kill the too. So the girl and her father split and run from the with. They defeated the evil henchman but the witch killed girl grandmother and her father. But the girl managed to defeat her in the end.
I had fun whatching that movie despite it's faults. I'm sure it's partly the feeling of nostalgia as so many things reminded me of home (they have a common space for drying your laundry in Germany too!). But mostly it was the fairy tale feel it had - the whole magical journey.
And I loved the way Saoirse was photographed. The stills from this movie would make beautiful posters.