I can't say I agree with the first one about the war because it was post-war, fought mostly in a guerilla style and far from beautiful from what I saw.
I thought about this (and I almost included this in this post) that may be my perception of the war side of the film is somehow not as vivid because of many Russian Second World War films I have seen as a child. These films quite often filmed very grimly and realistically, and they are often incredibly shocking. Just to take "Come and See": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/ which I absolutely recommend to anyone! It is probably the most frightening film I have ever seen. ( I apologize for long-winded passage!! )
The first scene that came to mind was the commander beating a man's nose into his skull with the butt end of a bottle, killing him and his father because they just might have been spies.
I think what I felt missing was some scenes of fighting. I felt that there were scenes of cruelty, but not scenes of war (I hope this makes sense). It was like if all was about a single figure, Captain, but not about the whole war. It felt for me as if Captain was a figure in some horror movie, not war movie.
I expected the root would actually cause her mother to miscarry and kill her mother, giving Ofila all the reason she needed to return to the underworld kingdom.
At this point I thought that she will find out that the kingdom of Underworld is as bad as the Real World above, that it's inhabitants are all monsters and the King is monster too, in a manner of her step-father. I was quite surprised that this was a test and the King was benevolent. But to add, the test itself was very scary, worthy of Old Testament and Abraham, and if applied to a child is again in contradiction with the King of Underword benevolence.
Did I still enjoy it, yes. The imagery and costumes were remarkable and I have recommended it to others. I did fill it was shot darker than it needed to be, but I think it was done intentionally. It gave the film the feel of doom, which might have made the good guys winning a little contradictory, but it was a fantasy.
Oh, I liked it very much too! I also felt these things were done intentionally and this was such a clever film as well as gorgeously filmed one.
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Date: 2007-03-06 06:14 pm (UTC)I thought about this (and I almost included this in this post) that may be my perception of the war side of the film is somehow not as vivid because of many Russian Second World War films I have seen as a child. These films quite often filmed very grimly and realistically, and they are often incredibly shocking. Just to take "Come and See": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/ which I absolutely recommend to anyone! It is probably the most frightening film I have ever seen. ( I apologize for long-winded passage!! )
The first scene that came to mind was the commander beating a man's nose into his skull with the butt end of a bottle, killing him and his father because they just might have been spies.
I think what I felt missing was some scenes of fighting. I felt that there were scenes of cruelty, but not scenes of war (I hope this makes sense). It was like if all was about a single figure, Captain, but not about the whole war. It felt for me as if Captain was a figure in some horror movie, not war movie.
I expected the root would actually cause her mother to miscarry and kill her mother, giving Ofila all the reason she needed to return to the underworld kingdom.
At this point I thought that she will find out that the kingdom of Underworld is as bad as the Real World above, that it's inhabitants are all monsters and the King is monster too, in a manner of her step-father. I was quite surprised that this was a test and the King was benevolent. But to add, the test itself was very scary, worthy of Old Testament and Abraham, and if applied to a child is again in contradiction with the King of Underword benevolence.
Did I still enjoy it, yes. The imagery and costumes were remarkable and I have recommended it to others. I did fill it was shot darker than it needed to be, but I think it was done intentionally. It gave the film the feel of doom, which might have made the good guys winning a little contradictory, but it was a fantasy.
Oh, I liked it very much too! I also felt these things were done intentionally and this was such a clever film as well as gorgeously filmed one.