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What's your opinion on "The Forbidden Games" ?

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Posted by Victor Khomenko on August 2, 1999 at 06:43:05

In Reply to: Re: "The Forbidden Games" - can't make any stronger recommendation.. posted by TAFKA Steve on August 1, 1999 at 03:50:10:

***Hi Victor, I've been away from the Asylum at a scientific conference in Baltimore.

And you didn't see it fit to stop by?

***I can't take credit for coining the "prequel" term, as the word was used extensively by the media to describe "The Phantom Menace".

Tells you how much attention I pay to this.

***And now that Natalie Portman is of legal age, we can admire her earlier work without sounding too much like Roman Polanski.

When I am in doubts whether I am still sane and have not developed that complex, I mentally go back to either movie version of Lolita. No, still revolting - so I must be still in control of my senses.

BTW, if reading English text is bad (besides being revolting), the Russian one is even worse. There is no question, one must switch the way of thinking and not just translate words and phrases. Nabokov was not able to make this transition - rather strange given his background. The Russin text appears to be mostly a translation, and not too good one at that, it is full of translated non-Russian sentences.

***She was also the best actress in "Beautiful Girls", but her role opposite Jean Reno in "The Professional" is both tender and disturbing.

Very true. She also seems to be a rare kind of movie actress - one apparently completely not struck by fame. She seems to be inclined to continue with her life where movies play role, but not dominate everything. Contrast that with your typical Hollywood Titanic Leonardo crowd (boy, what a lousy actor he is!).

The Professional was also the first movie where I saw Jean Reno and immediately took a notice.

BTW, I am still very much interested in your reaction to the Forbidden Games if you have seen it. I don't recall being touched by any movies in quite the same way in a very long time.

Someone was speaking here some time ago about showing the horrors of war. I mentioned that to create horrifying effects one doesn't have to invest heavily in gallons of red paint and plastic guts. The Forbidden Games in one tremendous example of how it can be done tastefully. Seems like that art is now permanently lost. Together with the last scenes of the Bicycle Thief and the Nights of Cabiria. So instead of subtlety and thoughts, we are now fed raw sewer of the Private Ryan final scene kind. What revolting experience that was!

Victor.

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