jtwcosmos
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"What is the difference between 60 million and 100 million dead?"
"40 million."
This is the story of the impossible becoming possible. The movie has brilliant directing, a great script and excellent acting.
Director Sydney Lumet has a brilliant way of telling the story. The black and white picture is used very effectively, the camera alternates between far and wide and close and tight, the angles are perfect. Light is used to a fantastic effect. At the height of the drama, the characters are presented in such a way, that they become almost unrecognizable - mere temples of human beings. They could be anybody. And anybody could be them.
The script is very good. The tension and the drama start to mount right from the very beginning. Slowly, at first, then more and more and more, with every passing minute. By minute 40 the tension is so high, one has to stop and wonder: "If the drama is so high and we're not even half way through the movie, then what the heck are they gonna do next?" And the answer is: "Simple. They'll build it more. Much more."
The way the major characters are grouped is absolutely brilliant, even if not exactly accurate. The President is presented as being alone, with only his interpreter to talk to. And the phone. The top military advisers are grouped together, arguing coolly and somewhat unrealistically detached, about maters of philosophy and morals in the face of disaster. The executants are yet another group, distinctively separated from the others.
The cast is excellent. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton, all have great performances.
Fail Safe. The other 1964 movie about the bomb. If I had to choose, I'd choose this movie over it's more famous cousin any day. 10/10
"40 million."
This is the story of the impossible becoming possible. The movie has brilliant directing, a great script and excellent acting.
Director Sydney Lumet has a brilliant way of telling the story. The black and white picture is used very effectively, the camera alternates between far and wide and close and tight, the angles are perfect. Light is used to a fantastic effect. At the height of the drama, the characters are presented in such a way, that they become almost unrecognizable - mere temples of human beings. They could be anybody. And anybody could be them.
The script is very good. The tension and the drama start to mount right from the very beginning. Slowly, at first, then more and more and more, with every passing minute. By minute 40 the tension is so high, one has to stop and wonder: "If the drama is so high and we're not even half way through the movie, then what the heck are they gonna do next?" And the answer is: "Simple. They'll build it more. Much more."
The way the major characters are grouped is absolutely brilliant, even if not exactly accurate. The President is presented as being alone, with only his interpreter to talk to. And the phone. The top military advisers are grouped together, arguing coolly and somewhat unrealistically detached, about maters of philosophy and morals in the face of disaster. The executants are yet another group, distinctively separated from the others.
The cast is excellent. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton, all have great performances.
Fail Safe. The other 1964 movie about the bomb. If I had to choose, I'd choose this movie over it's more famous cousin any day. 10/10
