Fallen Angels Review

I often bore my readers by complaining about how bored I am by formula movies that recycle the same moronic elements. Now finally, here’s a movie not on autopilot. Watching Fallen Angels is like entering a world of its own for it can exist solely in the mind of Wong Kar Wai and no one else. Every once in a while you come across such movies, with the worlds they engender being like none other in memory, each of them staking out a completely new place and colonizing them with peerless imagination. Believe me, Fallen Angels is like nothing you have seen before.

While watching it, you will either resolutely resist it or absolutely give yourself over to it. Now which of these paths your emotions let you tread on, I haven’t the faintest of ideas. Yet there is one thing that I can say with utmost veracity and that is, that the enticing invitation that Kar Wai extends into this phantasmagoria that he concocts is enough to hold you spellbound till the credits roll.

The music, the camera, the lighting, the colors, all of which ran on different latitudes while I was watching Chungking Express, come on the same plane here and fabricate an orgasmic experience for the senses as well as the mind. The color pallet on play is so exuberant and blithe that, yes, I can only compare it to The Double Life of Veronique. And even in Kieslowski’s world, they could not cease being separate elements while in Kar Wai’s world, the lights do not subsist to accentuate the feel. They rather seem to emanate from within the characters themselves, from their moods, emotions, senses.

I can’t seem to remember any scene in recent cinema which such striking sensuality as the masturbation sequence with Michelle Reis. The music sets the mood, the lights fill the gaps and by the time (which seems like forever when the scene plays out) her hands reach between her legs, we are with her – writhing in pleasure in what seems to be a lust for life that Kar Wai arouses from within us, far more titillating than any ample skin show that the naive resort to.

I have watched Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love, yet watching Fallen Angels, it felt as if it was the first Kar Wai I was watching. I admired the aforementioned movies, and share with countless other lovers of cinema, a deep admiration for the innovative lighting, camera movement and editing they have, yet that admiration is all that those movies seemingly educed in me. On the other hand, watching Fallen Angels, I saw an artist, unable to conceal the very depth of his vision, standing completely naked before his audience. All the techniques and plethora of characters he bombards us with seems to be nothing but a farce to distract us, to ward us off from coming across that beating heart of his which he conceals in every passing frame. To watch Fallen Angels, was to understand who Wong Kar Wai was, as an artist and more importantly, as a human being. And to say what most of those who I have and will come across in my life will not have the misfortune to hear, I guess I like him.

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Leaving Las Vegas Review

Leaving Las Vegas is a doomed love story. Anyone who walks into it expecting any redemption is at folly. It has a pessimistic humor and Cage and Shue sizzle together, yet I warn you again, do not watch this movie cornering any sympathy or hope for the characters set to materialize on the screen. There is no salvation for them.

Leaving Las Vegas is about a screenplay writer named Ben who becomes an alcoholic following his divorce, and sells everything he has so as to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to his death. Here, he meets a prostitute named Sera and starts to hire her so that he can have company on his suicidal mission.

Ben and Sera share their loneliness together. There is a sense of emotional detachment so as to foster attachment. Ben here acts as a sort of an ’emotional prostitute’ to Sera. Throughout the movie, Sera is seen in sadist relationships and disturbing sexual experiences and Ben here acts as an antidote to her despondent existence as she acts in his.

Sera here fulfills the role of only a witness to Ben’s last days. He hires her so as to give a meaning to his otherwise meaningless existence and lets her witness his good side. He lets her partake in his existence so that he leaves a mark of sort, that he will at least live on through her memories.

Sera, on the other hand as I mentioned before, uses Ben as an emotional prostitute. Throughout the movie, one sees Sera as being an exceptional dominatrix, and this comes from her confession that she has an unparalleled intuition on her client’s fantasies and how to let them live through them through her. This renders her impuissant to explore her own emotional and sexual identity. She lives it through Ben, satisfying her very own needs. I don’t think there can be anything more despicable than terming these actions as selfish, for every human relationship emanates from these very emotional and physical needs she fights for.

Leaving Las Vegas is a disturbing movie, to say the very least. It captures two characters who love each other in the midst of all hate and spite circling them. It brought me to tears and I am sure the same emotions I felt while watching it will mimeograph themselves if you do so too. However, I am also pretty sure, I won’t ever be able to watch it again. It drains you emotionally like no movie does.

RATING : 8. 5 / 10

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Se7en Review – David Fincher Series

David Fincher’s Se7en is about Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) who is in the last days of his career. He is unsure about the new detective who has been brought in to replace him, Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt). But, Somerset is forced into reconsidering his retirement when he encounters his final case : a serial killer killing random people using Seven Deadly Sins as his modus operandi.

I am kickstarting my David Fincher series with my second favourite David Fincher movie, which is second only because it leaves you completely drained. If you are in for a David Fincher marathon, I would recommend watching Se7en the last. Se7en is a very tense psychological thriller. But fortunately, it never refrains from being a commercial fare. Brad Pitt is perfect in this movie. He really deserved a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance. Morgan Freeman deserved a Best Actor nomination for his role. Morgan Freeman is so subtle, so controlled in such chaos. And that is not a vice, for it is because of his time in the city.

The natural chemistry between Pitt and Freeman is the life of the movie. Pitt as the new rookie and Freeman as the experienced detective goes like bread and butter in this case. Se7en, along with The Silence of the Lambs, are the only movies I think that qualify both as a thriller and horror in equal proportions. When you are watching Se7en, you will be literally chewing your fingers because the nails will be on the floor once you see that Victor scene.

The dialogues of Se7en are one of the best is cinema. The way it keeps you engaged ! You may expect a cat and mouse chase throughout the movie when you begin with Se7en, but it gradually transcends into a moody, dull, chilling and deeply disturbing Before Sunrise. The movie constitutes of conversations between Pitt, Morgan and Paltrow in its running time and the conversations are witty and philosophical. We see the sort of father-son relationship of Pitt and Freeman coming into inception within these conversations. The initial rivalry between Pitt and Morgan’s characters develops into a father son relationship. This is well apparent when Somerset is about to call Mills a ‘son-of-a-bitch’ but stops at ‘son-of-a..’ because he has begun considering himself his father. A father who cares deeply about his son and won’t let any harm befall on him.

Se7en is a deeply philosophical and stark realistic movie as well. The city where these events are set into motion is the most horrible place on Earth. It never stops raining there. Se7en is shot very intelligently. Fincher lets us hear the crowds shouting at night and disturbing Somerset’s sleep. We are given grim words and some scenes of the city where we are given glimpses of the horror unleashed. It is the evil of the world put into a single place, which also happens to be the place where our protagonists resides. There is a saying ‘One rotten tomatoes in a basket spoil all the good ones’. That is what has happened here as well. Our serial killer is actually a good individual who is driven to the point of insanity by the evil happening around him and himself turns to the evil when he decides to take a stand against the evil. It is about the thin line existing between good and evil and about the individuals caught in the middle and also puts forth a question ‘Who decides what is evil ? ‘

The cinematography is in tone with the flick. There is a visually arresting scene in a library where Morgan Freeman is standing with green study lamps all around him. The scenes in the city are darkly lit signifying the evil prevailing in the city while the scenes where our protagonists receive clues and the scenes in the library are well lit, signifying that knowledge is the only factor which can lead a horrendous society to goodness.

The score by Howard Shore is mortifying and is a proof that he can adjust to every genre, and is as good as his score of Lord Of The Rings. There are many people who said the ending sucks. Well, they didn’t muster up enough concentration while watching Se7en because in a scene Somerset warns Mills about the case beforehand by saying ‘You know, this case is not going to have a happy ending.

Se7en is a thrilling and dark venture into the world of psychological thrillers and has superb performances, a brilliant script and stupendous cinematography and a nerve-wracking score, and is a benchmark in its genre and is one of David Fincher’s greatest works.

 Rating : 9.4 / 10

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