Movie review Immortel (ad vitam)
yes this is a mostly pointless update. you can skip it. there are more serious things I could be talking about but I'm not ready to do that yet. So... movie review time. AND THERE ARE SPOILERS. though I doubt anything I could say would make it less disturbing or weird.
Reason I was interested- I rented it after looking at the cover on several different occasions. It's got a pale chick with blue hair blue tears and Egyptian gods. The back blurb tells me the blue tears are mysterious.(ooooh) and that Jill (the blue haired chick) has a power that even she is unaware of. It looks like some kind of scifi thing. These are usually good, bad enough to be funny or so awful that you are fully aware that it is two hours of your life you will not get back.
Overall rating - I can't say watch it and I can't say don't watch it. If its on cable I wouldn't turn it off, but I don't know if I'd actually go to the video store to rent it. I don't think I'd buy it. It wasn't particularly good or bad but was a sort of mildly disturbing.
Other things - This is defiantly a different kind of story. It's a 90% green/blue screen setup, most of the characters are animated, with live actors interacting (Who framed roger rabbit, Sky captain and the world of tomorrow, and Sin city would be other examples of the style) It left me with a sort of disconnect from the story. I'm not really sure I'd want to really connect with any of the characters anyway. There were some very nice effects but its not exceptionally pretty.
Jill (our hero?) is not human. and has a Nonhuman frame of reference. This is important because it affects how Jill reacts to things that happen to her. Did I mention she also has amnesia? or rather some kind of medically induced amnesia as a side effect from her treatments to become human. I did mention it was disturbing and weird right?
Horus (our protagonist ?) has seven days left on the planet before being locked up by the other gods. Being that he is a god, he also has a very Nonhuman frame of reference. He kills several people as unacceptable hosts before finding one that fits.
Nickopol (the host that fits) is our main human viewpoint in the story and he is having a remarkably bad week. His Cryo tube has busted open and his leg has broke off, he's unthawing and quietly bleeding to death when Horus arrives to "save" him, gives him a new leg and takes possession of his body.
There's also some cops and politicians running around trying to figure out what's happening I don't think they actually ever do.
Anyway Horus has come all this way to find Jill and make a baby. Jill is not convinced this is what she wants to do at all until Horus uses his "Will of God" powers on her. Yes it's a drugged date rape. It is not violent, she is not afraid, but it is coercive, she is willing only because Horus wants her to be. This is where the Nonhuman frames of reference really click into the story. The rape is almost more disturbing(to the viewer) because of the lack of violence. Jill's main reaction is to be mildly pissed off. Not massively pissed off, not hurt, or betrayed. She's irritated. Nickopol is more freaked out and angry than Jill is. (Nickopol is the only human, remember?) Horus is not really bothered at all.
The people trying to figure out whats going on are chasing Jill and Nic/Horus and I really had no idea what else the hell was going on. I think there was a commentary on persuasion versus violence. At the end of course, Jill become a real human, has a baby(bird) and possibly a relationship with Nickopol minus Horus.
Reason I was interested- I rented it after looking at the cover on several different occasions. It's got a pale chick with blue hair blue tears and Egyptian gods. The back blurb tells me the blue tears are mysterious.(ooooh) and that Jill (the blue haired chick) has a power that even she is unaware of. It looks like some kind of scifi thing. These are usually good, bad enough to be funny or so awful that you are fully aware that it is two hours of your life you will not get back.
Overall rating - I can't say watch it and I can't say don't watch it. If its on cable I wouldn't turn it off, but I don't know if I'd actually go to the video store to rent it. I don't think I'd buy it. It wasn't particularly good or bad but was a sort of mildly disturbing.
Other things - This is defiantly a different kind of story. It's a 90% green/blue screen setup, most of the characters are animated, with live actors interacting (Who framed roger rabbit, Sky captain and the world of tomorrow, and Sin city would be other examples of the style) It left me with a sort of disconnect from the story. I'm not really sure I'd want to really connect with any of the characters anyway. There were some very nice effects but its not exceptionally pretty.
Jill (our hero?) is not human. and has a Nonhuman frame of reference. This is important because it affects how Jill reacts to things that happen to her. Did I mention she also has amnesia? or rather some kind of medically induced amnesia as a side effect from her treatments to become human. I did mention it was disturbing and weird right?
Horus (our protagonist ?) has seven days left on the planet before being locked up by the other gods. Being that he is a god, he also has a very Nonhuman frame of reference. He kills several people as unacceptable hosts before finding one that fits.
Nickopol (the host that fits) is our main human viewpoint in the story and he is having a remarkably bad week. His Cryo tube has busted open and his leg has broke off, he's unthawing and quietly bleeding to death when Horus arrives to "save" him, gives him a new leg and takes possession of his body.
There's also some cops and politicians running around trying to figure out what's happening I don't think they actually ever do.
Anyway Horus has come all this way to find Jill and make a baby. Jill is not convinced this is what she wants to do at all until Horus uses his "Will of God" powers on her. Yes it's a drugged date rape. It is not violent, she is not afraid, but it is coercive, she is willing only because Horus wants her to be. This is where the Nonhuman frames of reference really click into the story. The rape is almost more disturbing(to the viewer) because of the lack of violence. Jill's main reaction is to be mildly pissed off. Not massively pissed off, not hurt, or betrayed. She's irritated. Nickopol is more freaked out and angry than Jill is. (Nickopol is the only human, remember?) Horus is not really bothered at all.
The people trying to figure out whats going on are chasing Jill and Nic/Horus and I really had no idea what else the hell was going on. I think there was a commentary on persuasion versus violence. At the end of course, Jill become a real human, has a baby(bird) and possibly a relationship with Nickopol minus Horus.