bertu-297-201696
Joined Feb 2012
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The director put a remarkable trust in the audience to live through long shots of faces and people with meaningful ' little twitches' while the camera is swirling around them. Although the story has potential to become a real love and hate story, it hovers over the issues, and it is acted with a distance. The tension between the wife of Strawinsky and Chanel is there, but does not get too deep. The children are plaid in a vanilla style. The relationship between the Strawinsky' is painted in a melodramatic style, while again it is all very distant and not terribly humanistic. It was hard to keep my attention, as the flow of the stoos so slow that it is easy to get distracted.
This is a movie with a lot of fairly cheap symbolism. There is very little reference or insight into the why of things. Avoiding spoilers, I need to stay a bit cryptic here. Why is grandmother, who never came to her son and grandson, now here? Why is the business in the UK so urgent, that one character that could bring a more interesting dynamic, leaving for most of the movie? Why is the grandson self-destructive? The casting of father and son is okay, the casting of Ruth is questionable, as her appearance is not as rough as would be approprite for the role. This is a sweet old lady, with a nice smile, not a rough war correspondent with heavy alcoholism.... In short, aside from some scenes with a bit of fun, there was very little in this movie that seemed in sync with the core of the story to be told. The happy ending underlines this dramatically. Pity.
Concept of the book and the series is interesting and shows a future that may be closer to reality than we think, as we learn that fertility is declining worldwide. The first two seasons are absolutely intense and keep you at the edge of your seat. The characters are well developed and it is easy to identify yourself with some of them. Season three was still strong, nut Season Four is meh... soooo slooow and sooo stretched out. Commerciality has taken over from the desire to make a great series and create a ending that will be remembered. Lots of illogical plots, long shots of individuals (endless so to speak) and illogical behavior changes by June. We sat it out, but if there ever is a season Five, I will pass.