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lunaryuna


Favourite actor:	Daniel Day Lewis, C. Owen, J. Malkovich
Favourite director:	David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Luis Bunuel
Favourite film:	The Matrix, Blade Runner, Dune

URL:	http://www.lovefilm.com/profile/lunaryuna

About me:	Historian, translator and web designer, a Jacqueline of many trades so to speak. I fell in love with the cinema experience during earliest childhood when my father used to take me to one of those old, one-room cinemas in our little town, wooden chairs, a couple of unmarried twins in their late 50s functioning as ticket box clerk, taking care of the order in the projection room and everything else in that small cinema. What a treat!! Until today I believe that cinema is a magic way of telling about the human experience, something that has been getting lost in movie productions late off, due to focussing merely on stunning visuals, when the real idea behind cinema has always been visual STORY TELLING.

The Human Experience (59)
"Movies I consider fulfilling that special expectation and magic called storytelling.Touching or intr..."
03/06/2009

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Mindless and absurd action feast , 28 March 2009

Wanted on DVD (2007)
Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Certificate:
As a fervent fan of The Matrix and its ground-breaking visual effects and a fairly positive reviewer of Angelina Jolie's previous film performances, I confess this flick left me numb and at the point of switching it off after seeing about two thirds of it. From the first moment on I started wondering about the inappropriate usage of bullet-time alike visual effects which had no meaning nor real reason to be in the context of the ongoing action. While in The Matrix bullet-time serves to create the visually convincing premise of a programmed reality, in this 'real reality' of Wanted it serves no other purpose than creating mindless eye candy and on top it becomes so overpowering, that the observer loses any chance to follow a supposed storyline, which of course didn't really exist or matter for this flick. A true representative of a cinematography hailing technological prowess without offering ANY storytelling whatsoever.

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