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I cringed, laughed, and fell asleep while watching this marvel of a film. I can appreciate the various stylistic accomplishments, but being asked to sit through two hours of this cartoonish procession is asking a bit much. The acting, the photography, and the set designs are quite innovative and will provide a treasure trove of ideas for ambitious young directors for decades to come. Yawn.
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I didn't. I've seen it three times and appreciated it more each time. If all films were similar to it, that would get old, but it's the only one precisely like it.
Rod
...to a wonderfully poetic film. One of the great ones, indeed.
Itīs a pity you didnīt enjoy it...
BF
The imagery can indeed be very poetic at times. It's just that I wish that the icons would cool it on the caricature acting. And it is as if everything and everyone in the film were an icon of some sort - looking and acting like cardboard cutouts for all the church to see. I know the film is not supposed to look or sound "naturalistic", but I do feel that the whole expressionistic thing has been overdone just a bit. Just a bit.
I like it a lot. It has some very strange, striking, unique imagery. I especially like the sequence of the kids drifting down river. It also seems to have influenced later films. Hard to imagine Days of Heaven without it.
This movie always scared me as a kid. I also think-like most other movies-that it works best in a theater, where cinematic "impressionism" is oriented for best effect. I love being enveloped by the theatrical experience. It's so easy to be distracted by everything when I'm just watching TV. Though, don't let me get started on the noisemaking morons in theaters. Laughton did a pretty nice job on this, maybe setting trends for later American southern gothic themed thrillers films, like Cape Fear, and To kill a Mockingbird (the Boo Radley subplot). I still like it, but find it only tolerable on the idiot box.
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