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Waking up in a pool of mud, Eden Log takes the viewer on a video game like trip through a multi-level, underground compound built around a tree’s root structure. Darkly lit caverns with dripping water, mutated creatures and a company cover-up don’t sound like the biblical Eden, but still the movie ties back to the evolution of man with the same metaphorical approach.
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A movie with four different languages, multiple story lines, nearly no dialog, and a main character that is both deaf and blind. By most accounts you might consider this movie to be a painful experience that requires far more attention than you would be willing to give a form of entertainment. For the first 65 minutes or so, I would say you are right, but then the different stories are so completely different that you want to stay and find out how they are supposed to be connected. As soon as the “ah-ha” moment happens in the movie, you realize how beautiful the whole movie really was.
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“When the child was a child, it didn’t know it was a child.” is part of the opening voice-over to Wings of Desire. A critically acclaimed, artsy, German film from the late 80′s, Wings of Desire has been considered by many to be one of the top 100 movies ever made. After watching it and thinking about it for nearly four days, I can’t say I agree
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I wasn’t sure what to expect with Head-On. I heard little about it and the cast is completely made up of unknowns (by US movie standards). Less than 30 seconds into it and I was really getting worried. A group of seven Indian musicians are next to the Bosphorus River in Istanbul with subtitles welcomes the viewer into the movie. Trust me when I say, “Keep watching, it gets much better.” While I still don’t really understand the musicians and why the movie cuts back to them seven times throughout the story, but the acting of the two main characters and the raw nature of the movie more than makes up for the somewhat confused cinematography and occasionally slow pacing.
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It has been a while since I did a movie review (or blog post in general). With the holidays, work travel, family issues and side work, it has been a tough two months yet watching The Searchers, my life is rather simple and boring in comparison. Considered to be the “Best Western” ever, John Wayne comes back from fighting in the civil war and ends up spending the next 5+ years hunting down a pack of Comanche Indians that killed his family and kidnapped his nieces.
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