If you don't find this beautiful, then, I don't know, maybe switch to playing video games, or something.
City of God is a very good film. I don't really know what else I can say. I watched it a long time ago and it just seemed like a well-made film of its kind. It pales in comparison to the other 3 of these masterpieces, though.
Rashomon is a beautiful film. Kazuo Miyagawa's cinematography is beautiful. Kyoko Kagawa is beautiful. Fumio Hayasaka's music is beautiful. Akira Kurosawa's direction is beautiful. Toshiro Mifune is beau... naaah, I prefer Tatsuya Nakadai *dodges bullets* This is a film about rain, darkness, and then a ray of light. "It's human to lie. Most of the times we can't even be honest with ourselves."
Solaris is one of Tarkovsky's masterworks. Many people here in Poland bemoan the fact Tarkovsky raped Lem's book, but I think this is exactly what you should do with an adaptation. Lem himself hated the film. But Lem knew nothing about cinema. A real artist does not pay attention to his audience. If artists did that, two-thirds of the greatest art would not exist. A film is an autonomous work of art. Close adaptation is a domain of a craftsman and not an artist. It is absurd to require a film to reproduce a book in any aspect. Why invent the wheel twice?! Tarkovsky doesn't give a **** about Lem's raw humanistic rationalism. Instead, he throws Christian mysticism into Lem's world, creating a film about sorrow, loneliness, the essence of human existence, about experiencing reality. And about how much our earthly experience and faith begins to change when we are put in the perspective of the cosmos, which beautifully inserts the film into the science fiction genre it shares with the book. "— Он умер от стыда. Стыд — вот чувство, которое спасёт человечество."
M is perfect. It's Fritz Lang's greatest achievement (although his silent Der müde Tod comes close) and Peter Lorre's greatest performance. Germans were the masters of early sound cinema. Pabst had been using sound as if it were always there, and Fritz Lang totally killed it with M. Lang uses sound as a harbinger. We first hear the danger and only then see it. It's not always straightforward. A shadow at the beginning of the film is enough. M was made in the Weimar Republic Germany, so the social system in the movie is shattered by a chaos of frustration and mutual suspicion in a paranoid, suffocating loop. Wow! The finale is mind-blowing.
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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.
Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.