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Welcome Back to the Blog of Movie Reviews, and the occasional Randomness. I'll stick with the Movie Review theme for this update.
I just finished up the Saoirse Ronan flick How I Live Now. I call it a flick, yet it's almost exactly what I'd consider a 'Film'. Dark, Brooding, Difficult to watch. Well, time to Review!
- Warning Plot spoilers ahead, Ye Be Warned -
MOVIE REVIEW: How I Live Now
Pros:
First off, I still love Saoirse Ronan. She's a Wonderful young actress. She first popped onto my radar because of Atonement, which got her an Oscar nom. How I Live Now is another great subtle performance, almost too subtle at times. She was able to carry a rediculously slow paced movie almost solely by herself. She;s done it before in Hanna but that at least had action to break up the emotional scenes. Thisone was all her, in actress mode the whole time.
I may bash on the Somber tone a bit, but I absolutely loved it, it was dark and bleak and never let up throughout the course of the movie. I especially like that the movie wasn't afraid of killing characters. The neighbor's death took me completely by surprise. And I was completely engrossed in the scene with the pile of bodies. I cannot express enough how good the tone held up throughout the movie. it reminded me of Children of men, without the unique camera shots.
Cons:
Well, With a slow pace comes a slow pace. It worked for the movie but it was insanely slow at times. It reminded me of some of the slow indie movies you'd see at a film festival.
Ok, the Big Elephant in the movie is the really weird relationship that pops up between a pair of cousins. I understand they are not blood related in the book, but in the movie they're cousins. and they fall in love, have sex, all that jazz. It's a very weird decision to make them an actual relationship instead of perhaps just a close family bond. It would have been a bit more believable to me.
Final Verdict: 75
Good Acting, and somber, but a bit shallow at times.
ok, so that's up, now to shoot things!
Welcome Back to the Blog of Movie Reviews, and the occasional Randomness. I'll stick with the Movie Review theme for this update.
I just finished up the Saoirse Ronan flick How I Live Now. I call it a flick, yet it's almost exactly what I'd consider a 'Film'. Dark, Brooding, Difficult to watch. Well, time to Review!
- Warning Plot spoilers ahead, Ye Be Warned -
Pros:
First off, I still love Saoirse Ronan. She's a Wonderful young actress. She first popped onto my radar because of Atonement, which got her an Oscar nom. How I Live Now is another great subtle performance, almost too subtle at times. She was able to carry a rediculously slow paced movie almost solely by herself. She;s done it before in Hanna but that at least had action to break up the emotional scenes. Thisone was all her, in actress mode the whole time.
I may bash on the Somber tone a bit, but I absolutely loved it, it was dark and bleak and never let up throughout the course of the movie. I especially like that the movie wasn't afraid of killing characters. The neighbor's death took me completely by surprise. And I was completely engrossed in the scene with the pile of bodies. I cannot express enough how good the tone held up throughout the movie. it reminded me of Children of men, without the unique camera shots.
Cons:
Well, With a slow pace comes a slow pace. It worked for the movie but it was insanely slow at times. It reminded me of some of the slow indie movies you'd see at a film festival.
Ok, the Big Elephant in the movie is the really weird relationship that pops up between a pair of cousins. I understand they are not blood related in the book, but in the movie they're cousins. and they fall in love, have sex, all that jazz. It's a very weird decision to make them an actual relationship instead of perhaps just a close family bond. It would have been a bit more believable to me.
Final Verdict: 75
Good Acting, and somber, but a bit shallow at times.
ok, so that's up, now to shoot things!
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