tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73126168442565575452024-03-13T10:08:27.838-07:00I like the treesThoughts about films.Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707829974453202251noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312616844256557545.post-5071379226916538122022-05-25T08:42:00.003-07:002022-05-25T12:57:54.233-07:00<p><br /></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">HAPPY TOGETHER</span></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3627428200189667376" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: black; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 756px;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span><br /><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="color: white;">” </span><i style="color: white;">I finally arrived at the end of the world</i><span style="color: white;">” </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">I can think of a number of
films where loss is overwhelming, such as Bergman’s “Virgin
Spring” or Konchalovskiy’s “Maria’s Lovers”, but this
feeling of loss coupled with an utter sense of alienation, an almost
complete disconnection with the mundane comings and goings of the
world, is something that Wong-Kar-Wai pinpoints extremely well in his
films and particularly in this one.</span><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">A
chinese couple travels to Argentina in the hope of mending their
aching relationship, only to witness the sheer destruction of what
connected them in the first place. Living in a decrepit pension in a
Buenos Aires suburb, Lai Yiu-fai (Portrayed by Tony Leung) struggles
to survive with odd jobs, while Ho Po-wing (Portrayed by Leslie
Cheung) is the eternal decadent “flanêur” who has given up all
hope. Self-destructive Ho Po-Wing is the incarnation of chaos,
debauchery and decadence that some people of extreme sensitivity fall
prey to, in a world that moves too fast.</span><div><span style="color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9A5KFqHas7KG6DQoMkMRw9S6FF0M0BQx5QVefQ6ouAk7H-5uJS_LP2vU9QLorAsMVi_lqEfMy9cyh1de9iuUM0S_5D5L2XwVaA6FSoBjkwG19rC_PAQX5-XUwFvMSVPrxqtyGFdoxphwaNuzk553rjzXuWN3PKHAYA4J0roc4OPcUG88KFEJQR9pJ/s1280/a1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9A5KFqHas7KG6DQoMkMRw9S6FF0M0BQx5QVefQ6ouAk7H-5uJS_LP2vU9QLorAsMVi_lqEfMy9cyh1de9iuUM0S_5D5L2XwVaA6FSoBjkwG19rC_PAQX5-XUwFvMSVPrxqtyGFdoxphwaNuzk553rjzXuWN3PKHAYA4J0roc4OPcUG88KFEJQR9pJ/w640-h360/a1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">If
you never cried your heart out and if you have problems with
homossexuality (Which in fact is completely beyond the point in this
film) you may see this film as a tough ride. If you can also get
beyond the fact that Wong-Kar-Wai’s films generally appeal to
people in their 20’s, you may be able to see that in spite of this,
there is magic when you have actors such as Leslie Cheung and Tony
Leung ,cinematography by Christopher Doyle, the setting of Iguazu
falls, the startling Astor Piazzolla piece “Tango appassionato”,
and all of this directed by Wong-Kar-Wai.</span></div><div><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHy1id-UJmBsEQ83Uh3jdRzspJqfLX1Un3DcB_AQbDV8MLbRl_-OI1YsRmPBFnEqP8NZk7useRjRtrkXjdfJbbS6JCf_ArgSmRZn0aIYL0E5Qf9y0hYZOIx_cjP5rnCMrNix9xIEpJcF0XKyNajhIlwE0jrYlhfrSIszIaQyktCpS7mIBn8o1m0gpG/s1280/a3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHy1id-UJmBsEQ83Uh3jdRzspJqfLX1Un3DcB_AQbDV8MLbRl_-OI1YsRmPBFnEqP8NZk7useRjRtrkXjdfJbbS6JCf_ArgSmRZn0aIYL0E5Qf9y0hYZOIx_cjP5rnCMrNix9xIEpJcF0XKyNajhIlwE0jrYlhfrSIszIaQyktCpS7mIBn8o1m0gpG/w737-h378/a3.jpg" width="737" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">Happy Together, although not a masterpiece, leaves a lingering imprint in
my mind of something i personally have felt for many years, the
complete sense of disconnection and alienation with everything. In
this film, akin, in some ways, to a road movie, both men are
searching (in very different ways) to make sense of life in a world
that is predominantly indifferent. The setting takes place most of
the time in a nightly, sometimes ghostly version of Buenos Aires
suburbs, where one is permanently impeded from anchoring. One could
say that all characters in this film seem to be enshrouded in a mist
from which they cannot escape. Yet in this seemingly purgatory-like
atmosphere, there are persistant tingling impressions of beauty and
sadness that punctuate the narrative, such </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">as the Iguazu lamp or the
amazing Tango scene that takes place in the most sordid kitchen i
have ever seen. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ0xD-xuMbAxh2ZJGVY_TzK6-ow2wLCD0shFlMwuyhEANpvFvFc93pdtnralTHP7z5_Rxaw9e8Fe8k7tm0U1JhHY6N8lAx9yjvf5iNmRrHUi8aRW210VL6x2cemV4t4pWm_vWGu5QNVafn_D8ghY0W3K4YxcdsdO6wl8sFvLO7mLNJ0vMuekW6L4FA/s567/a2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="567" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ0xD-xuMbAxh2ZJGVY_TzK6-ow2wLCD0shFlMwuyhEANpvFvFc93pdtnralTHP7z5_Rxaw9e8Fe8k7tm0U1JhHY6N8lAx9yjvf5iNmRrHUi8aRW210VL6x2cemV4t4pWm_vWGu5QNVafn_D8ghY0W3K4YxcdsdO6wl8sFvLO7mLNJ0vMuekW6L4FA/w522-h348/a2.jpg" width="522" /></a></div></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">Even in such bleak surroundings Wong-Kar-Wai pushes
forth tiny glimmers of passion, sometimes in slow-motion, a technique
he often used to remind us that present experiences sometimes carry
the scent of memories even as they happen.</span></div><div><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9CPK4q6gPhfULxu0k9pij1jgAJ78QKNt1vXEWOWQnafWRTHSQJH53cr5UKLTHy1_hbJiRuNToG2iqotIb5wn7i_u4u99nggRQKNlN9PkXuV7PXnqgjOVV1I13eMJKSm4mJYaDiIVoibHa978WZeUEBYsgHoCcjRlpzHdda91_O0Tf8-jIzhzupGS/s1280/a4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9CPK4q6gPhfULxu0k9pij1jgAJ78QKNt1vXEWOWQnafWRTHSQJH53cr5UKLTHy1_hbJiRuNToG2iqotIb5wn7i_u4u99nggRQKNlN9PkXuV7PXnqgjOVV1I13eMJKSm4mJYaDiIVoibHa978WZeUEBYsgHoCcjRlpzHdda91_O0Tf8-jIzhzupGS/w428-h240/a4.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">Happy
Together is a descent into an utter state of disarray and sadness.</span><br /><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 14pt;">One
scene in particular stands out and reminds me of a scene in the Deer
Hunter</span><div><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">The scene when Nick is unable to answer simple questions, such is the shock of his experience. In Happy Together, towards the end of the film, there is a similar moment of tremendous beauty, when Tony Leung is completely unable to express himself</span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></span></div></blockquote><div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: black; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 756px;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="color: white; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="392" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qlPsE0gKTd4" width="559" youtube-src-id="qlPsE0gKTd4"></iframe></div><p></p></div><div style="color: white; text-align: justify;"><h2 style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RELEASED: 1997</span></span></h2><h2 style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Director: Kar-Wai Wong</span></span></h2><h2 style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Running Time: 96 mn</span></span></h2><h2 style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cast: Leslie Cheung; Tony Chiu-Wai Leung; Chang Chen</span></span></h2><h2 style="color: black; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rating: 3.5 stars</span></span>R</h2></div><div style="color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: white; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14707829974453202251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7312616844256557545.post-52501442519296321042016-09-29T10:08:00.004-07:002016-09-30T00:20:06.631-07:00CAPTURING MARY<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">1991 Woody Allen’s Shadows and fog has often been quoted as a minor film in Allen’s extensive career. It didn’t strike me as brilliant the first time I saw it, but watching it again, I have to say that this film really is a hidden “minor” masterpiece.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">The story centers around the events that take place in one night on an unnamed jewish community somewhere in eastern Europe. A maniac killer is on the loose and a vigilante group forms in order to catch the killer. Kleinman (Played by Woody Allen) is a bookkeeper who is awakened in the middle of the night to reluctantly join the vigilante group. Irmy (Played by Mia Farrow) is a travelling circus artist who, after a fight with her partner (John Malkovich) starts dangerously wandering the streets. The two meet and events unfold amidst shadows and fog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">M</span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">agic, famously known as the art of deception, is actually more than just “deception”. In Shadows and Fog, as in life, magic is our ultimate savior, not logic, not faith nor physical strength, but magic. In the end it’s the circus Magician who captures the maniac killer. The reference to magic and magicians is present in several Woody Allen films, perhaps because fairy tales and magic are deeply rooted in childhood, and childhood in many ways, is a star we always look for in adulthood. In a world that is evidently grim to the real thinker, it is only through these early experiences that one really manages to sustain a sense of wonder, much needed to survive the fogginess of life. A key element in Woody Allen films that is also often found in Bergman (Think of Fanny & Alexander).</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Just like Visconti’s Notti Bianche, the setting has an eerie feeling to it. The camera work (Carlo di Palma) is elegant and intriguing, and the black & white shots are in perfect equilibrium between the fairy tale textures of Visconti and the dramatic and unsettling coldness of Fritz Lang’s “M” or even Orson Welles “Third Man”. However, it’s the burlesque of the circus (embellished by Kurt Weil’s fantastic music) and the escapism of the brothel that stands out. The brothel seems to be the only place where people are happy and oblivious. It’s in effect the ultimate deception, and ironically the only safe place to be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Donald pleasance’s appearance as the town doctor’s is another fantastic cast. Know for films such as Halloween, Prince of darkness and Phenomena (where he plays a professor on the trail of the killer). His role on Shadows and fog is very similar. He’s the person who questions things and thinks deeply. He’s an outsider with the meticulous eye, he’s always on the brink of understanding something that escapes everyone else.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Fog, commonly associated with danger and the unknown, represents in this story the confusion of our existence, false beliefs and short horizons. Fog is in fact the veil that stands between us (shadows) and truth. Fog is the thin line between what we want to see and what really is (or not). It’s the centerpiece of this act</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">The key scene in the film is the one when Kleinman and Irmy are sitting quietly looking at the stars and Irmy Tells Kleinman that the light of the stars may take millions of years to reach us, meaning that what we see might be the lights of stars that no longer exist. Whereas Kleinman perceives this as a very disquieting thought, (the notion that we cannot rely on what we see with our own eyes), Irmy marvels at the perfection that such small moments entail. A clearing in the fog and we can see right up there to the stars. Doesn’t this moment seem perfect? This is a fantastic allegory to what makes life worth it. For all the confusion and lack of sense in which we are all immersed, there’s always the possibility of small clearings in the fog if only we can “catch the moment”.. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">In the final scene of the film, the magician delivers this very significant message:</span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Director: Woody Allen</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I didn’t expect much, especially after hearing from various sources that the high point of the film is Cate Blanchet’s performance. That, in itself, suggests that the film may be at best “enjoyable”.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">This is indeed the impression one has at the beginning, especially with the constant alternate flashbacks (Something I never enjoyed in story-telling), until, quite unexpectedly but firmly so, we start getting more and more involved and drawn in to the story. Obviously, this is a film directed by Woody Allen, which amounts to unusual levels of intelligence for Hollywood Standards, coupled with a deep understanding of human psychology and an uncanny talent for story-telling, and when these ingredients come together and the story works, the result is always a step higher than the best around.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">When Hal is arrested on serious tax evasion and fraud charges, all assets are frozen and Jasmine, left with nothing, travels to San Francisco to be with her sister Sally, who has two hyperactive kids, and gets by with a simple supermarket job. Sally’s boyfriend Chili (played by Bobby Cannavale) and in fact her whole world represent the antithesis of Jasmine’s vanished privileged world. In this set of circumstances, Jasmine struggles to find herself again, by making herself believe that she can craft a new reality, working and getting up the ladder from ground zero, but instead she quickly falls prey to her own delusions of grandeur, from which there is no escape.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">The film is clever in that it shows life and human beings as they are, as they think and as they act in our modern western society. I am often positively surprised with Woody Allen’s insight into human psychology and how easy he makes it for us to relate to the characters portrayed. Cate Blanchet is indeed fantastic in her role but it’s the screenplay and directing genius that put it all in place for her. The dialogues are pure Allen and the tone of the film is neither that of a drama nor that of a comedy, it doesn’t rely on the usual emotion triggers we are used to, it handles serious emotions all the same with some naturally subtle comic scenes, something very few directors are able to pull off, especially these days..</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Jasmine is the portrait of a woman who lived by an acquired idea of herself, in a world where not only fortunes are volatile, but also a whole set of circumstances and ultimately identity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">In all Woody Allen films I can think of, characters are plagued with flaws from which they cannot escape, much like characters in Dostoyevsky’s tales. Flaws that determine behavior, ascension and fall. Flaws that are characteristic of our own human nature. Some of us accept these flaws and opt for forgiveness and acceptance, whereas others choose to mask and manipulate, which, as in all good Greek Tragedies, (another ever present element of Allen’s stories) always ends up in self-demise. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Jasmine’s story is that of a downfall and the song “blue moon” to which she clings to the very end, is extremely well chosen as a song that seems to tempt and escape us at the same time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I sometimes wonder to which degree my own perception of events defines and may alter these same events. It does sound offbeat I grant you this, but something in me seems to sense that we only truly live in the world we are able to see and perceive, and somehow, in an intricate and elaborate plan, this world only truly exists through our own perception of it. There probably isn’t a definite objectivity we can ever grasp, and if there is one, it’s most certainly always out of our reach. Character, personality and perception seem to be the forging force at the setting of our own circumstances. The primordial utensil we rely on, is at the same time that from which we must naturally escape in search of a true essence of being (or non-being).The world we envision is there only to the extent of our desire..</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">Richard Collier wanted so much, and so passionately, to meet Elise, that he did in fact travel to a reality where they both could co-exist. How he did it defies logic, but then again logic is a process of thought within a limited system computed to our own limited understanding of things. It doesn’t quite matter to understand how this was possible in practical terms, and I praise the scriptwriter for giving us as little insight as possible on this matter, because what actually prevails in this story, is the overwhelming genuine essence of passion, which enables the impossible to happen.</span></span></div>
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from an attempted rape on her way home after work. Caroline is grateful and
curious, and Adam slowly breaks his self-imposed silence and distance. Caroline
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with the right measure of mystery and innocence. Until the day he met her, all
he had was his records and particularly a beautiful haunting theme he refers to
as “magic”, Roger Williams version of <i>nature
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Love that creates princes and princesses and not the other way around. The film
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Until one day,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And while we talked
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Fools and kings,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">"The greatest
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">You’ll ever learn</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Is just to love</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And be loved</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In return."</span></i></div>
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about Untamed Heart is that it doesn’t try to aim higher than it actually gets.
It doesn’t try to be an epic and shattering love drama. It’s just there,
quietly and innocently illustrating how simple and how beautiful life can be if
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traveling through the English countryside when he happened to come across a
local news story of a young man who had blinded 6 horses. Shaffer wondered
about what could have triggered such a violent act, and based on these
premises, he wrote the play “Equus”</span></div>
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six horses with a metal spike, he is referred by the magistrates to the care of
psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart (played by Richard Burton). </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dysart first tries to engage Alan in conversation by asking basic
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employer at the stable where Alan worked. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">However, as we slowly unearth pieces of the puzzle, a veil of
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face to face with his particular predicament and starts questioning himself and
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story is presented in a slow but captivating manner, alternating fantastically
well written narrative with flashbacks. Shaffer’s adaptation works so well,
that I cannot imagine any stage version being better than this.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: white;">The opening
scene is a close-up on an intricate dagger adorned with a skull, reminiscent of
ancient Celtic mysticism. This is followed by a scene that feels like the
setting for a Velázquez painting, in which Alan stands naked next to a white
horse, in a deserted field at night. From this scene, Dysart embarks on a striking monologue that
only becomes clearer in retrospective, when we later understand the extremity
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own analysis of Alan, Dr. Dysart comes to realize that something fundamental
has passed him by, something Alan himself has embraced with a fury only
paralleled in Greek tragedy, and something Dysart only ever admired from afar:
The staggering depths of passion. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Unbridled passion and worship, free of any vestiges of
restraint, </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">is really the essence
of what is at stake here. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The notion of Love with a capital “L” pales by
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his ultimate escape. Through hypnosis and suggestion induced by Dr. Dysart, Alan
recounts how every three weeks or so he takes out at night one of the horses
from the stable he works at and rides him naked, shouting words of praise and
love, becoming "one" with the horse.. His own sexual awakening and abandonment becomes the ultimate vehicle of
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emanate from the fringes of madness, is in fact an expression of passion in its
purest state, and ultimately, an act of defiance towards our human condition. Much
alike Sisyphus defiance of death, Alan creates his own Eden and discards his “ball
and chain” in ceremonial fits of passion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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guide and a guard, looking at Alan’s each and every move. “</span><i style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I am yours and you are mine</i><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">”. In mimicking his God Alan becomes
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“normality” and everything we take for granted is questioned. Society molds
people and education removes the ability to feel deeply. Though Alan’s actions
are demented, it is ironically only through demented actions that we can be
reminded of passion and the ultimate real search for this sort of spiritualism generally
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comprehensible through a thousand local gods... spirits of certain trees, of
certain curves of brick walls, of certain fish and chip shops if you like. And
slate roofs, and frowns in people, and slouches... I'd say to them,
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eyes. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills
like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful: it is also the Average made
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Burton gives one of his great performances, if not his best, and Peter Firth is
clearly born to play this role, which he played more than 1000 times before on
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one could argue that a trained psychiatrist would not dwell on such questions,
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is a film that asks no easy questions and offers no easy moral judgments. It is
a mature, articulate and intelligent study of the human psyche that demands to
be seen. It touches at the core of essential questions that are often hard to ask and remain almost always unanswered.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the time it will take us to
die we can be replenished by new forces.</span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mustafa Kemal (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk" title="Mustafa Kemal Atatürk"><span style="background-color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white;">Atatürk</span></span></a><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">)</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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documentary on Gallipoli, by director Tolga Örnek.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Having seen several times Peter Weir’s film “Gallipoli”, I
was interested in watching the Turkish counterpart, especially knowing that it is
almost entirely based on surviving diaries, letters and photographs from both
sides of the war. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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which director Tolga Örnek presents war itself as the sole enemy in an absolute
unbiased and profoundly humane and heartfelt portrayal of events.</span></div>
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film recounts the events as they unfolded chronologically, always coming back
to the actual diaries and letters of two British, three New Zealand, three
Australian and two Turkish soldiers, beautifully read by Jeremy irons and Sam
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the backdrop of the war, we witness the path of these soldiers on both sides of
the war, their thoughts, their wishes, their fears, their innocence laid bare
though their letters, existing photographs and even films of the actual
training camps in Egypt as well as battle scene locations and re-enactments. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are also interviews with several experts, newspaper headlines and areal maps,
all of it thoughtfully and meticulously assembled. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tolga Örnek’s documentary actually pierces through the story with a fierce
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is, aside from the realism of the portrayal, a splendid and unique sense of
intimacy in hearing these letters that make up the texture of the film. We feel
that we know these men. Their words echo with tremendous accuracy the realities
of war. The music of Demir Demirkan is simply beyond words. </span></span><br />
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read the following quote from Mustafa Kemal (Who went on to lead Turkey out of
the Ottoman era </span><span style="background-color: black;">as </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atat%C3%BCrk" title="Mustafa Kemal Atatürk"><span style="background-color: black; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: white;">Atatürk</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">):</span><span style="background-color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Those heroes that shed
their blood<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">and lost their lives…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">You are now living in the soil of a friendly country.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Therefore re<span style="background-color: black;">st in peace.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></i></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">There is no difference between the Johnnies</span></span></i></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">here in this country of ours…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">You, the mothers,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">who sent their sons from faraway countries<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">wipe away your tears;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">your sons are now lying in our bosom<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">and are in peace,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">become our sons as well.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mustafa Kemal exceeding his
authority and contravening orders in so doing. His speech "I do not
command you to fight, I command you to die. In the time it will take us to die
we can be replenished by new forces" ( Turkish:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><i><span lang="TR" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span xml:lang="tr">"Ben size taaruzu değil, ölmeyi emrediyorum. Biz
ölünceye kadar geçecek zaman zarfında yerimize başka kuvvetler ve kumandanlar
geçebilir"</span></span></i><span lang="TR" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">) has
entered history. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Total Allied deaths were
43,000 British,</span> 15,000 French, 8,700 Australians, 2,700 New
Zealanders and 1,370 Indians. Total Turkish deaths were around 60,000. New
Zealanders suffered the highest percentage of Allied deaths when compared with
population size, but the percentage of Turkish deaths was almost twice theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2015 will mark the 100th anniversary of the
Gallipoli landing</span>.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the narration of the longest Turkish letter to survive the battle, written by a
young Turkish captain on May the 31<sup>st</sup> 1915:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Ariburnu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">To my beloved father and
mother,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Dear father, beloved mother,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">During the first terrible
battle I fought at Ariburnu, a bullet grazed my right side and passed through
my trousers. God be praised. I was spared, but, I do not hope to survive future
battles in which I will fight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">I am writing these lines so
you have something to remember me by.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">I thank God that he enabled
me to become a soldier and reach this rank. You, as my parents, did all you
could to raise me and make it possible for me to serve my country and my
people. You are my heart, you are my soul and you are the inspiration to my life. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">I am eternally grateful to God and to you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Beloved father, dearest
mother, I entrust my beloved wife, and my dear son, first to God and then to
your protection. Please do for them whatever is possible. Please help my wife
in raising my son and providing him with the necessary education. I know that we are not wealthy or people of
means. So I know I cannot ask for anything more than what is possible. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">To ask
would be quite in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">Please give the enclosed
letter addressed to my wife into her own hands. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">She will be devastated. So please do what you can to console her grief. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: white;">She will weep and mourn, please comfort her…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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seen running forward like a schoolboy in a foot-race, with all the speed he
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History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> describing
Private Wilfred Harper of the 10th Light Horse </span><span class="apple-converted-space">during
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Australia’s and New Zealand’s dramatic involvement in the first world war, when
allied forces tried (and failed) to reach Constantinople in order to knock
Turkey out of the war and secure a sea route to Russia. With fierce battle and
heavy losses on both sides, Gallipoli was one of the bloodiest battles of the first
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journey of two friends from rural Australia, Archy Hamilton (played by Mark
lee) and Frank Dunne (played by Mel Gibson), both runners, who cross the desert
to join the 10th Light Horse Regiment in Perth.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: black; color: white; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-highlight: black; mso-shading: black;"> </span><span style="background: black; color: white; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-highlight: black; mso-shading: black;">Archy sees
a purpose in joining. The war appears to him as something meaningful and larger
than life. Frank who is penniless joins with no real purpose in mind. After
successfully enlisting in Perth, they are sent to Egypt to an Australian
training camp before leaving to Gallipoli.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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strong supervision of his uncle. He is one of the fastest runners in Australia
and may very well become a champion, but Archy has other aspirations, that of
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desert to reach Perth. They get lost and are literally saved by an old man who happened
to cross their path and gives them water and food. The old man has never heard
of the European war and finds it intriguing that these two young lads wish to
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farewell ball where you see them dancing a Strauss Waltz, to the landing at
night on the Turkish peninsula, with Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor in the
background. The moment is shattering and feels like a scene from Dante’s
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music in the film is Jean Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene” juxtaposed to the running
and desert scenes, the “solar” moments of the film. It contrasts sharply with
the classical music and acts swiftly as a lifeline, a pulsating beat, a driving
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the story is the way it is told, almost like a tribute to life itself and loss
of innocence. In one of the opening scenes we see uncle Jack reading from the
Jungle book, a scene where Mowgli has reached manhood and must now leave the
family of wolves that raised him. Throughout the film we are subtly reminded of
the frailty of our human condition. The pyramids, the vastness of the desert, and
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small masterpiece, easily brushed under the carpet by all those who tend to
believe that love stories should reflect glamour and heroism. On the contrary,
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station, Burton who is a doctor, removes a particle of grid from Sophia Loren’s
eye. They meet again by chance and become infatuated with each other. We sense
on Burton’s side that he is taken by a passion that is beyond him, especially
in the moment when Sophia Loren visibly falls for him and notices that he looks
just like a little boy. In this moment she touches his heart unwillingly, most
likely in a way that no-one has ever done before. She is in contemplation, in a
much different state than he is, almost in a dream-like hypnotic state of mind.
Through their short-lived encounters and conversations, they are taken to
places they had forgotten about, places where dreams co-exist with reality. Richard Burton is tempestuous in his passion (A
trait he embodies gracefully as he did in “The Medusa Touch”) whereas Loren is
frail, eerie, detached, almost as someone who stepped aside long ago, to become
a mere observer of her own life. Burton acts as an inevitable trigger of her
awakening, but on their first escapade together, there are irrefutable signs
that this acquaintance under the sign of deceit is doomed to fail. A road accident they witness on the countryside
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<span style="color: white;">Burton makes arrangements to meet in a friend’s apartment
(They have nowhere else to go), but what happens there is nightmarish for both
of them. Burton’s friend, Steven,
arrives home earlier than planned and we learn that Burton had not told Steven
he would be bringing a friend over. Steven who is inebriated, comments on this,
(not without a touch of sarcasm) and suspects that this is all just a fling
with a nurse. Loren sneaks out, humiliated,
exposed, degraded, leaving behind her jacket and purse. Burton runs after her
and finds her at the train station cafeteria, but now all that remains is an
overwhelming feeling of shame, humiliation and sacrilege. The ultimate
violation of a temple never conquered. Loren comments “<b><i>It all seemed so innocent.. it
was like a dream of love</i></b>”</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">The final scenes are heartbreaking. Again a train rages
through the station and acts as a powerful metaphor to all that is fleeting in
our world and the very brief moments we have to make decisions that impact that
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I saw <b><i>Gravity</i></b>
in a Brussels theater last week and this is the film that prompted me
to
finally start a blog, not because of any overwhelming feeling of
appraise (on
the contrary) but rather because of a sense of unease that settled
slowly but
firmly as I walked out of the theater. Let me explain: Gravity is
indeed a mark in film history. A “tour-de-force”
in 90 minutes that takes us to unseen depths of space and manages to
steadily
keep audiences in the edge of their seats without the aid of Aliens or
inter-galactical
combat scenes but rather with a clever use of state of the art elegant
filming
and some mesmerizing 3D moments. This is the first feature film of
Alfonso Cuarón
in 7 years and a triumphant comeback, yes, but it lacks in something
essential
which I might define as <b><i>silence and all that it entrails</i></b>.
The same silence we experience in Ridley Scott’s “Alien”, in Kubrick’s
“2001” or
in Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”, is more or less absent in this film, perhaps
because
Cuarón opted for a steady pace, to keep audiences wired and
receptive. The film is a clinically constructed story
with a good pace where everything fits and nothing is exaggerated, but
by doing
so, the real menace of deep space, the real mystery of the unknown, is
lost, in
spite of the fact that we do come to “feel space” as we have not felt
before in
cinema, we do not feel the utter isolation and fear that should have
been
present as it would have been, had the movie been shot by Stanley
Kubrick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Am
I asking too much? Perhaps, but then I should also add that the film aims
higher
than it actually reaches, and perhaps this is why my hopes of a small
glimpse
of Genius were shattered early on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
do appreciate however the choice of actors, people of substance, not
young and
unknown actors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gravity
carries its torch very high, in that it marks a new era in cinema. The
film
ended with applauses in the theater followed by a triumphant music, and
as I walked
out of the theater and into the street, my only thoughts were of
escaping
gravity and getting myself a good Gauffre on the Toison d’or.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Director:
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cast:
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