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In Reply to: RE: Only Lovers Left Alive posted by Revolver66 on May 09, 2014 at 05:12:05
likes the art genre of "slow film."
It also was, fatally so, pretentious. It had a sophomoric sense to it; the jokes about Marlowe, Shakespeare, and others quickly wore thin.
Both principals were fantastic; however, they just didn't have much to do. Jarmusch could do with a little injection of Tarantino dialogue talent. Nothing said in 2 hours was very clever or even interesting.
Louche isn't enough to carry a film.
The pretentious dialogue may be playing into the film’s gentrification subtext. There is an air of superiority generated from the vampires’ education, artistic sensibility, taste, affluence – wads of cash are readily produced for services.
In an ironic sense, these immortals are always the “new” people, haughty types that price you out of your neighborhood. Jarmusch turns the genre on its head for an audience who think they’re too cool for it, yet, these “cool” vampires become representative of the qualities we dislike.
dfs
Man, you're not going to give Jarmusch's writing an inch... ;^)
fds
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