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How do you paint the sparkle of a diamond with pastel? Look at the Invitation. Rarely will you see a movie gentler and softer and simpler. No big events, the camera is there and not there, almost completely detached, with no action, no plot. Just few people trying to have good innocent time. When was it that Hollywood had discovered that normal people were shallow, and true depth only existed in the realm of idiots, bastards and fake heros? Apparently the director of this gem missed that important discovery.One can not state too often that art is not in the subject, it is in the means. Not much subject in Invitation, really, just a good dose of art.
I have not seen the movie but your description of it reminds me of a Chinese import movie called To Live. It was the story of one family in Communist China over the course of something like three decades. As in your movie, there was never anything out of the ordinary that happened yet it was one of the best movies I've seen. It did a good job of showing how the ordinary can be magical. As a warning, it was subtitled so no running to the fridge during the movie.
A very well made and very human movie, one of my favorites. They had put normal people through quite an ordeal, those rotten communists, don't you think so?
Yes, those commies were pretty rotten....ordinary people did not matter.
But...here's what bothers me, Viktor: I'm not sure ordinary people are that much better off these days, in what we call the "newly independent states" and Russia. Have bandits replaced the commies?
What do you think?
***But...here's what bothers me, Viktor: I'm not sure ordinary people are that much better off these days, in what we call the "newly independent states" and Russia.No, they are not. For most of them life is more difficult and far less orderly. One can draw different conclusions from that. One is that they should go back to hard line communism - and many do indeed advocate that.
Others think that it takes decades to clear your system of the communism dung, and one needs to be patient.
***Have bandits replaced the commies?
To large degree yes. Unfortunately, the outside forces have done little to affect the change for democracy. Because of our administration's policy of avoiding making the bandits feel uncomfortable, they were allowed to do whatever they wanted with untold amounts of money - thus making life even more miserable for common citizens.
"We'll do whatever you want, Boris, just don't get upset" - that is a political prostitution of highest order.
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