Score: 8
"Hmm...Artistic!"
date: August 16, 2004
Wow, must've been ages since i wrote my last review, but i dont know, something about this movie stirred some creativity in my fingers.
Well, let me tell you, i watched this movie with my mind first, and my heart second.
It was ok, i mean, i assume you based your backdrop on New York City, in some scenes. I am not surprised. I live near there and i tell my freinds and family that if u really want to face the brutality of life, the coldness of the world, the emptiness of illusions created for us to see, visit NYC and the curtains of your eyes will pop open.
I also liked the seeming comparisons that you made by panning to other regions of the world. It makes us think that we have bellies full of food and concrete shelters and automatic doors, while others are still living in mudhuts and drinking water from rivers. Believe me, i was born in East Africa, Tanzania and I am sure some of my freinds there would be going mad crying "Devil" if they got a glimpse of the technology that we are exposed to here.
Example, cell phones. In my world we are still dealing those finger dial thingies.
One scientific mistake you did though, and i m not sure if somebody has already pointed out. When solar eclipse occurs, the full effect, is only experienced by a certain geographic area on the earth and let me assure you, its less than 1/3rd of the earth that experiences the full solar eclipse. Lunar eclipse, on the other hand is experienced by half the world which is covered in darkness.
But if u already knew that scientific fact, and you just wanted to make a symbolic statement, then disregard by cruel criticism.
Hehe. I need to watch more of your work. Keep it up.
WM [:{}]
Author's Response:
Thanks for the indepth review. U r probably right about the eclipse. Although it is a symbolic fact, like u said too. The darkness that covers the world at the end has for all the characters in the movie another meaning. Yet they can finally take some time to think about what they are doing.