Movie-thon a few days ago...!
(I'm only going to put up images for The Fall since I'm sure everyone's at least aware of Inglourious Basterds and doesn't need me to advertise for it.)
I watched four movies all in one day and then followed up with The Fall the next day. It was a trip. I'm such an addict when I wanna be~
Anyway, I'm going to cover the most impressionable movies in this post and then maybe mention the others in another post sometime. I was writing about these two in my art blog so I thought I would share these first:
First I watched Inglourious Basterds, which I'm sure most people have seen by now. I have not. I couldn't afford going to the movies at the time :< The next day I watched The Fall:
Anyway, all I have to say about Inglourious Basterds was that I enjoyed it. It's a fun film and carries that dark sarcastic comedy in what few other Tarantino films I've managed to see. I loved how it was played in only a few environments, I loved Brad Pitt's crude american attitude (accent especially), I liked the villianous nazi in all his giddy amusement and charm (he enjoyed himself so), and one of my favourite scenes was at the end watching the juxtaposition between (POSSIBLE SPOILER!)the already dead star and theatre director to their appearances in the movie that everyone was watching.(/END SPOILER)
I liked how it spoke of their intentions living on passed their own deaths. It was also a film where I don't think there was a true bad-guy really. Everyone was cruel in their own way including the victim who we all got to see almost demonicly depicted in her exiting (laughing) scene.
Well, what can you say? Revenge is twisted on its own, yes?
Anyway that's all I have to say about it. On to the movie that you probably haven't seen.
This is definitely one of my new favourite movies.
Alright, lets put aside the fact that I obviously picked up the movie because I have a fascination with twisted fairytales and stories involving children in dark, complex atmospheres. We know this already about me. So instead I'm going to say that this is one of the more successful stories in the genre. It takes place in the early movie-making time period with a stuntman whose been injured in a fall. Similarly there is a little indian girl (just learning english) has fallen from an orange tree and is in the same hospital.
The rest of the movie is about the fairytale he begins to tell her about and their effects on each other: his negative one on her due to his own situation and her positive one on him as she quickly becomes attached to his company.
What I like about this movie is that it's simple. The most complex things in the plot are saved for the story which is a musketeer-style good versus evil tale. Its got some amazing artistic imagry. The colours and compositions are beautiful. And I love how he's telling more of a cowboy and indian(native american) tale but her take on it is middle-eastern (indian) which turns the whole thing exotic.
I'll admit, it wasn't the deeply meaningful, engrossing tale I was expecting, but its simplicity is clean especially since some of the dialogue can be hard to follow.
Anyway, I loved the movie. It's got a heavy mood though, so I would save it for a day where you can handle the weight of it. Still dont let that detour you. Definitely give it a try.
Click to viewWarning :0 This trailer is lovely but it does give away a lot about the movie.