Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Victor Khomenko (i) on June 19, 2001 at 09:24:03

In Reply to: Re: Criterion "M" is simply beautiful posted by george2 on June 18, 2001 at 18:02:03:

***what did you get out of it?

I agree that most of the story is silly, but the story is just an excuse the director needs to put actors on stage. I didn't pay much attention to it.

But what is wonderful in that film is how the director paints it for us. The senses of fear and horror are completely palpable while done through "trivial" and insignificant means - that takes true artist. One of the most masterful scenes is the anticipation of horror when mother is waiting for the missing daughter - the empty stairwell is incredible, with bone-chilling horror as real as it gets.

Scenes like the cornered animal while the hunters are getting closer and closer... these are true masterstrokes and this is what makes the film so noteworthy, not the silly plot.

The movie directors have largelly lost the ability to say a lot with few words, as they mostly went in the direction of the cheap effects. While tryng to scare us more and more, they lost their ability to impress us, to reach our innermost fears, and what we ended up was the tedious series of that nasty "Friday the XX" trash.

Here we have the movie analogy of the famous "Scream" painting.