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HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... current day count
189 .......................... 200
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June 1st
—— 2013 ——
S N O W P I E R C E R
—— sci-fi ——
REWATCH
Snowpiercer?
More like Slowpacer...
With the above said, it's not like the movie is a total bore or anything, but it is so slow in terms of developing its plot, almost like it is constantly chasing its own tail for answers. It never does much explaining; neither do the characters really feel that fleshed out by the end of it. They are just there to drive this big clumsy train of a plot forward, straight into nothingness. And when we finally arrive at the last train-set, I don't feel relieved at all, only in terms of the movie almost being over, but I'm not intrigued, afraid, shocked, excited or anything of that matter. Overall, I think the way they try to round off the plot and the story of these characters is both pondering and predictable…
What I like though about the film, is how the actors at least try and work with what they got from the screenplay and mostly the set designs of the film are quite unique and beautiful to look at. It is fun to see where all the effort went, really, which clearly looks to be in the detailed design of each of these train-sets. The cinematographer working on this film has done a great job at lighting the dark and gloomy beginning of the film as well as the bleak backdrop of a snowy landscape, which fits with what the director at least tries to tell with his characters and their story. And the cinematographer knows his colors just as well, when we enter the various wagons of everything from gloomy yellow shades to the dark and light of the killer carriage carnage – which is probably one of the highlights of the film I guess. Overall a great use of color and lightin, though a little too forced at times maybe – but that seems to lay with the writer and director's vision for this film, not the cinematographer.
‘Snowpiercer’ really tries to be this beautiful journey through the grittiness, trying to balance poetic and ambitious themes of the future of mankind, politics, survival and so on, but as I said earlier it just doesn't go anywhere with it. It lets everything hang as semi-developed side stories and overshadowed theme-constructions and it just doesn’t add up in the end. Oh yes, and that ending is horrible and a weak attempt at closing the film with a message of hope. This movie is dull as hell to put it clearly, and I never cared for the characters or where they where going. This film derailed itself from the very beginning...
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HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... current day count
189 .......................... 200
__________________________
June 1st
—— 2013 ——
S N O W P I E R C E R
—— sci-fi ——
REWATCH
Snowpiercer?
More like Slowpacer...
With the above said, it's not like the movie is a total bore or anything, but it is so slow in terms of developing its plot, almost like it is constantly chasing its own tail for answers. It never does much explaining; neither do the characters really feel that fleshed out by the end of it. They are just there to drive this big clumsy train of a plot forward, straight into nothingness. And when we finally arrive at the last train-set, I don't feel relieved at all, only in terms of the movie almost being over, but I'm not intrigued, afraid, shocked, excited or anything of that matter. Overall, I think the way they try to round off the plot and the story of these characters is both pondering and predictable…
What I like though about the film, is how the actors at least try and work with what they got from the screenplay and mostly the set designs of the film are quite unique and beautiful to look at. It is fun to see where all the effort went, really, which clearly looks to be in the detailed design of each of these train-sets. The cinematographer working on this film has done a great job at lighting the dark and gloomy beginning of the film as well as the bleak backdrop of a snowy landscape, which fits with what the director at least tries to tell with his characters and their story. And the cinematographer knows his colors just as well, when we enter the various wagons of everything from gloomy yellow shades to the dark and light of the killer carriage carnage – which is probably one of the highlights of the film I guess. Overall a great use of color and lightin, though a little too forced at times maybe – but that seems to lay with the writer and director's vision for this film, not the cinematographer.
‘Snowpiercer’ really tries to be this beautiful journey through the grittiness, trying to balance poetic and ambitious themes of the future of mankind, politics, survival and so on, but as I said earlier it just doesn't go anywhere with it. It lets everything hang as semi-developed side stories and overshadowed theme-constructions and it just doesn’t add up in the end. Oh yes, and that ending is horrible and a weak attempt at closing the film with a message of hope. This movie is dull as hell to put it clearly, and I never cared for the characters or where they where going. This film derailed itself from the very beginning...
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