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In Reply to: Kandahar posted by jamesgarvin on April 2, 2005 at 14:13:40:
HiI loved Kandahar. I found it very eerie and claustrophobically cloying (which is what I assumed the film maker intended). Notice how you never actually saw the Taliban, just the effects of their presence. The use of repetition (the nagging kid, the legless patients begging for limbs, etc) was a metaphor for life under the Taliban (I assume).
Stylistically it represents the complete antithesis of the Hollywood movie. No SPFX, no cliches, etc. It didn't ever need to show "Arnie-style" violence to prove a point. If Hollywood had made this movie it would have relied on Spielberg-esque levels of ultra-gore to prove its point. No doubt Bruce Willis would have made an appearance as the perenial avenger of all that is righteous. Kandahar is an extremely violent movie, yet never shows actual images of violence - it's violence is in the form of what *could* happen and what has happened to others who've crossed the Taliban.
I also loved the parachuted legs - a truly original image.
I think this is one of the most original movies ever made. I think the problem is that people view it through the prism of having been exposed to so many formula-driven Hollywood movies. It's a bit like Westerners having constantly been exposes to the blues musical scale, who then find other scales weird.
Doug
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Follow Ups
- Kandahar was all about subtlety - Doug Flynn 00:48:30 04/03/05 (3)
- Re: Kandahar was all about subtlety - jamesgarvin 08:03:45 04/04/05 (0)
- I think too... - Harmonia 11:01:39 04/03/05 (1)
- The ending was amazing - Doug Flynn 20:21:55 04/03/05 (0)
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