Saturday, December 23, 2006

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The perfume. Tom Tykwer. 2006

no mistake. This film is bad.

is bad for many reasons. The first is that it lasts far too long (147 minutes!)
Then there are other reasons that are more reasonable, since it is judged by the film footage.
For starters, throughout the length films include boring things. The story comes down to a man with a wonderful smell, which seeks to capture the fragrance that once smelled a girl, and as it is able to capture the smell of women, frustrated. There.
No more than that. And with that, the director seeks a mystique that maybe in the book is nice, resultón, and going beyond that would pretty (according to taste of course), but Heavy shown here, tiresome and stupid of all all.

Le film is mediocre voice-overs, because as in 80% of the time have the protagonist running around sniffing, there is a narrator who tells us what the protagonist thinks. It is an abuse. The voice is so childish an action script to plug gaps do not understand how you can brew here. Example (Fulanito Then, thinking that would get such a thing, he prepared to leave for I know not where to seek the happiness. But to get such a thing happened that made him think about that girl I had known ... etc. ) An insult to the viewer.
This is the plan during the first two hours. See Ben Wishaw (an English actor who promises a lot) instead of talking sniffing and a voiceover that explains everything.

Then there is the claim of Dustin Hoffman, here comes a piece of paper worth no more than secondary. And the other actors are rags script. There are rave in the Bruckheimer-style assembly, ie, faster planes in which the camera moves over the landscape a few miles through valleys and hills (as in The Sea Inside as well), which only become more ridiculous approach the movie that the guy sniff things miles and also strive to prove it.
has many musical crescendos, but not dramatic (Except perhaps the pre-outcome) and has a 15-minute tickets are a real pain in the ass (not poetic or beautiful) are boring.

But if something is bad this movie is for a final abhorrent. A final in which there is an orgy heterosexual irrelevantly and inexplicable in history. It is a kind of "let's change of pace, and invent more asshole end you can imagine." Unfortunate to say the least. Until 2 o'clock in the movie thought it was mediocre and boring. After watching the final (and as longer and rejoices in itself) I think it's a shit. This forceful.
In film I began to laugh non-stop (spoiler: seeing a bishop does not have an orgasm Priceless).

And finally I would add that the book is an international bestseller and has read all the world does not justify a pathetic story like this. As The Da Vinci Code book and simpleton explicitly mediocre, and boring movie without more, give thousand turns to an adaptation like this, to give the first example that comes to my head. And I say that Dan Brown seems like a bad writer and Ron Howard a wimp. I've seen custom adaptations that made it more honor to his literary version (eg, Red Dragon).
never read a book based on such a story.

It is as if he had seen an adaptation of any short novel by Paulo Coelho. A mystical thing, boring, sappy and embarrassing.


Rating: 1

Mild Alchol Poisioning

After the glass. Agustí Villaronga. 1985

Agustí Villaronga Mallorcan is a director, in general, is quite unknown to national cinematography. The last thing it has reached us is the mockumentary Aro Tolbukhin: in the mind of the murderer (2002) on the Hungarian murderer in Guatemala. Other works include The Sea, 99.9 o Child of the moon. Most of these, like the actors who participate in them, are characterized by the strong presence of the Balearic archipelago.

Behind the glass (1985) is the first film of this man, and most critically acclaimed. It is well known in spite of this, and could even be said to be due to the relocation of the director within the time that was done. If you are looking in a glass cage (title translated into English that was released) will be almost more references in English. And it is considered cult for the transgression of their approaches.

film begins with a fairly young boy hanging naked hands. It is like a vision, and sado-masochistic pedophile for a redeemer. Beside him, a man does well presented photos of the child, comes over and licks his face with eyes still vice. After that, a camera accessory (therein lies the morbid game) the man takes a stick and pokes her child in the neck, as if it were a rabbit. That's when unhealthy complicity of director jumps to a third party who observes the scene from outside through a window. And that character is still unknown, it's us because it makes us complicit in what we have seen, marks the evolution of the film. After this disturbing impression, the camera (us) is / we the murderer from among some stairs to the battlements of a tower. We are waiting and silent man, with parsimony, pull vacuum.
So begins the film. That is the first 4 minutes. Traumatically incredible.

obviously know nothing based on this (hence the story), and what will emerge next is a story of hatred and despair, which leads to an unhealthy ideology based on the guilt of the past, the purge sin and the masochism of the victim. It's sort of like watching a movie from Chan-wook Park but tripe. The visceral issue here focuses on the victims, yes, but the difference is that these are now children.

Actors are four, including Marisa Paredes, who has a role not too protagonist and complies perfectly with the stigma of a bitter wife and bad, but basically defenseless. The others are the girl Gisele Echevarria (which would merely film), Günter Meisner (a second-tier German actor who made a jug of stuff for TV Germanic) and David Sust, the real star of the film, in my opinion not meet even a tenth of what their role in post-teen depraved madman promised. His character (Angelo) is embodied with the reluctance of Jorge Sanz of beginnings, with phrases recited almost without changes in tone and with a stiff rookie. This is one of the serious faults, because his character has no force or malice, but rather a stop homosexual Initial that you are not from the head.

Another point worth noting that the story is sickening, but will decline as everything progresses and the characters become blurred and disappear. Perhaps there are people that do not support such a degree of moral perversion, and this makes them be stupid questions would not be done about the executioner-victim relationship (that is the grace and originality), but going by that way, even for more tolerant audience, the film is mired in itself, as shown repeatedly disrupted it (and wants to show off), and that's not funny. And not funny because there was a 4-minute climax never reached again throughout the footage. It is as if the first should give you a punch in the face and then they were calling you a fool for an hour and a half. For this reason, the beginning and then it hits you do not mind so much.


Rating: 5

Friday, December 22, 2006

Welcome Note For Wedding Ceremony

infernal dolls. Tod Browning.


Tod Browning was not a director of one film. Although it is generally known to most as the creator of Freaks (The Freaks) back in 1932 and especially Dracula in 1931, with Bela Lugosi, and say that you have other outstanding works.
One of those tapes is this (The devil-doll) which at first was called The Witch of Timbuctoo, written exclusively for him.
Incredibly, Browning did not win either Dracula or with Freaks. With the first, Universal was not satisfied due to inconsistencies and Bela Lugosi script, while the second reviews were terrible and tore down the director's career.
was in the mid 20's when you get the real success, after recovering from a depression, abandoning his wife and alcoholism, he signed with MGM and after The Day of Faith, The Unholy Three is marked (The Unholy Three) a success would be repeated in a sound remake in 1930 with the same actors (this is the only sound appearance Lon Chaney).
Thus, we produce a series success in the late 20's as human jaws, a masterful story about a love triangle between circus characters, told in barely 70 minutes.
And after that, as I said, the failure would ensue with what are now considered his greatest works.
You could say that this film is the last along with Milagros sale, after which retire to a house in Malibu, where in 1942 his wife die and he would plunge into depression and cancer at the end of his life.

About the film that tells the story of a banker who escapes from a prison on Devil's Island, which has been submitted by false accusations of his three former partners. Obviously, you are looking for revenge, and regain the love of a daughter who always hated him for something he did not.
Through a friend, he discovers a potion that reduces the size and possess beings as slaves, and that's where he begins his revenge.
Arguably, this story is something like a freak version of The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas wrote already.

rub overacting actors and makeup are a bit loud, but see special effects like these , at the time they are shot has merit and beauty. When I saw this movie, immediately afterwards I went to see The Incredible Shrinking Man, by Jack Arnold (1951), which would repeat a similar formula, towering in the series B of the time. The comparison is odious, but I have to say that Arnold is far more boring than Browning. I do not mean that resemble arguments, but infernal dolls to have a growing pattern in which the characters reduced gag is a technical, while that of Jack Arnold is based solely on the action film and does little more , since it takes advantage of the social rejection that being has to bear no relations with his wife when it is small (moviegoer who gives nod Almodovar Talk to her and I think it's great. When one is tiny Fele Martínez seeps into the vagina of his lover).

recommended is a film with a simplicity typical of Browning, as the use of topical or droll characterizations, but that entertains a lot, is brief and tells a story of betrayal, revenge and paternal love, in which there are costumes, tiny slaves , theft, murder and final depression.

Rating: 8