raul-4

Hmm I just saw this episode and was surprised by the bad reviews. I don't expect a masterpiece from any episode, but there's always something great about them. I think that in this case Peter Falk is the reason, his acting is so raw that you can feel the farce of the story, what's important is the energy in his acting. Also watch him act in Cassavetes, it's his best.

What else... well i like it. I just need to fill the lines a bit. The other actors are good too. And nothing more really. Just hanging in. Got to go. Bye. What do they mean with 10 lines of text. Come on. Please.

When it comes to writing about a specific film I stutter, I'm lost. But don't misunderstand me, I know enough of movies to say this is a work of art that will prevail thorough time as the greatest novels do. I believe Hou is up there with Tarkovsky, Bresson, Ozu, Pasolini, Dreyer, Sokurov, Fellini, Herzog, Paradjanov and others. I mention them so as to locate a few of you readers who may have heard little of Hou.

I think its better not to talk about the movie itself, one shall see it with new eyes. It is something new, this time cinema works for reality to transform it to beauty, that's the real meaning of art. It may seem simple at times, and yes it is, for time at present seems always simple, but it also accumulates the most complex structure of time. One can feel how the banality of everyday slowly fixates itself in eternity, one can see the inevitable, the beauty in the every small detail. Hou justifies life in a century that has lost itself and that sees only its own shadow. Humanity in its true form, going around like lost and innocent children, and there's no evil. And every second in Hou's work makes life more beautiful.

I've talked to a few people who have seen his movies, I can't guarantee the same experience, but what I've seen is there if you can see it in yourself.

I don't remember reading so much trash before, the past reviews seem to have missed the film. Were they watching? They tell you the plot, as a proof that they saw it. Why do people write here? I hope there is no censure in here, that would be just worst. But to criticize and pose as experts, judging an artist with your little thumb, that's pathetic. I've written some humble reviews as to advice on some movies, but burning a movie by such a great filmmaker that is Lang, that's ignorance.

I don't know if you liked him for M or Metropolis, that's just the surface, he works following production and commercial rules but he never loses his voice, he is speaking from the shadows, his images show the perfect conflict between light and darkness, in constant reassembling. The world of lies, the fear, the ignorance and the malice are all there, in life and in his movies. I hope there are people out there who care for this film.

Raul Quintanilla Alvarado.