Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by townsend (A) on April 01, 2007 at 18:26:37

"There are a myriad of things that films can do, but most movies settle for a simple experience of storytelling which follows characters through a moral narrative. Like drama on TV, most modern motion pictures take us through the same stories of good and evil with use of the devices of cinema to make this pleasant or time efficient. Because of this unambitious intention, more and more modern media relies on reheating the old or a spin on the familiar. How we watch films becomes increasingly conditioned to our narrowing experience, and, for me, cinema reduces itself to nothing more than expensive TV where we are simply consuming more technologically and sophisticated versions of the same fodder that comes through our goggle boxes. I find it is a relief when I get to see a film which forsakes formula and the staples of mass media, . . ."

The above quote was lifted from John White's review of Le Belle Captive. By golly, I think he is on to something! YMMV . . . enjoy and discuss, or ignore if necessary.

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