I'm rather fascinated in any movie with Craig before he became Bond. I wonder if he somewhat wasted in that role sometimes.
I read the book and this was still a very fresh experience that tells its story for more efficiently than the book but no less subtly for the most part.
A mysterious and nuanced picture that keeps a lot of its cards close to its chest as we explore a very masculine search for meaning and significance in our lives as a few are disrupted by a random tragedy.
The elements might have an obvious unity, but that makes it an even more intriguing experience, not a "drama" as we're used to using the term and not quite a thriller either even if it wobbles precariously on the border, watching the rational mind succumb to the bizarity around him in a haunting fashion.
Always visually interesting; a sensuous adventure that is a treat for the senses as much as it stimulates us intellectually, made even more hypnotic for its rich score wavering from the lyrical to post-tonal eeriness. I watch a lot of horror, but the feather touch here strikes a raw nerve as effectively as I could hope for from one of the them.
This is indeed a creepy movie, not just for its not-all-there antagonist but for wordless questions it brings to mind and how the things we use to bring a sense of sense and order into our lives can be disrupted.
There is a lot of waxing philosophical which one might like though at times it does seem like a narration substitute and an excuse to not tell us the story visually.
I feel the essence of the novel has indeed been captured though the stylistic tone is admirably its own. The material story is even told more efficiently and there is a more powerful sense of motivation.
Bold and uncompromising. It will simply not be a lot of people's cup of tea but it does what it tries to do with intelligence and panache. One truly feels grown up watching it but not in a pretentious way.
I read the book and this was still a very fresh experience that tells its story for more efficiently than the book but no less subtly for the most part.
A mysterious and nuanced picture that keeps a lot of its cards close to its chest as we explore a very masculine search for meaning and significance in our lives as a few are disrupted by a random tragedy.
The elements might have an obvious unity, but that makes it an even more intriguing experience, not a "drama" as we're used to using the term and not quite a thriller either even if it wobbles precariously on the border, watching the rational mind succumb to the bizarity around him in a haunting fashion.
Always visually interesting; a sensuous adventure that is a treat for the senses as much as it stimulates us intellectually, made even more hypnotic for its rich score wavering from the lyrical to post-tonal eeriness. I watch a lot of horror, but the feather touch here strikes a raw nerve as effectively as I could hope for from one of the them.
This is indeed a creepy movie, not just for its not-all-there antagonist but for wordless questions it brings to mind and how the things we use to bring a sense of sense and order into our lives can be disrupted.
There is a lot of waxing philosophical which one might like though at times it does seem like a narration substitute and an excuse to not tell us the story visually.
I feel the essence of the novel has indeed been captured though the stylistic tone is admirably its own. The material story is even told more efficiently and there is a more powerful sense of motivation.
Bold and uncompromising. It will simply not be a lot of people's cup of tea but it does what it tries to do with intelligence and panache. One truly feels grown up watching it but not in a pretentious way.