Two very fine movies I watched this weekend. "Iron Lady" is a very fine film with magnificent performances by Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent. In fact, it's hard to say that they are performing. Both Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent are living their characters, they are in fact The Iron Lady and her husband... They make the movie much more than the story re-told by Phyllida Lloyd. There are certain weaknesses that I'd like to discuss in my review, but it's even hard to call them weaknesses as it might seem to many... It's just that Phyllida Llloyd took a different approach to a biopic, and her focus wasn't politics... It's something different... It looks like a tragedy of a lonely woman, rather than a story of a Die-Hard politician who shook up not only Brittain, but also the whole world...
As for the "Shame" that's something really special. It's a powerful artistic piece that is far mor thought-provoking, and requires a better discussion. Certainly I know that there's been a lot of that long before me, say in 2011? :) Nevertheless... I assume that if you really want to be reminded of and appreciate your "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" life you gotta watch it. Although "Shame" explores a completely different topic, it provokes the same emotions when I watch "Children of Men." Steve McQueen doesn't seem to insist on anything, but rather explore certain qualities, emotions, and his main characters tell us how powerful can a simple smile be. McQueens style is fantastic! Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan are extremely engaging! The scene where Mulligan sings "New York, New York" is so dazzling that you can't take your eyes of her and of screen... Long-shots in movies are rare, but must be used carefully. Not many directors do it, and/or have the ability to attach you to a screen for that long... In "Shame" Carey Mulligan will take your breath away with her singing...
Both directors manage to control their premise, and their ideas. One of them is the idea of what really matters in life. Yet, both movies are different, and there's no way I'm trying to compare them. It's just that both seem to come across your emotions, devotions, and a destructive force of loneliness...
I'll start with an "Iron Lady" which I see as a tragedy of a lonely old woman (it somehow feels less about a politician, more about a woman), and afterwards I'll talk about "Shame" that tries in an artistic form to explore human beings (you really gotta smile more, because after watching that movie you may as well sing "Help!" by The Beatles). If I rephrase that classic song I may say that you may really need somebody to help you, before you're left alone...
As for the "Shame" that's something really special. It's a powerful artistic piece that is far mor thought-provoking, and requires a better discussion. Certainly I know that there's been a lot of that long before me, say in 2011? :) Nevertheless... I assume that if you really want to be reminded of and appreciate your "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" life you gotta watch it. Although "Shame" explores a completely different topic, it provokes the same emotions when I watch "Children of Men." Steve McQueen doesn't seem to insist on anything, but rather explore certain qualities, emotions, and his main characters tell us how powerful can a simple smile be. McQueens style is fantastic! Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan are extremely engaging! The scene where Mulligan sings "New York, New York" is so dazzling that you can't take your eyes of her and of screen... Long-shots in movies are rare, but must be used carefully. Not many directors do it, and/or have the ability to attach you to a screen for that long... In "Shame" Carey Mulligan will take your breath away with her singing...
Both directors manage to control their premise, and their ideas. One of them is the idea of what really matters in life. Yet, both movies are different, and there's no way I'm trying to compare them. It's just that both seem to come across your emotions, devotions, and a destructive force of loneliness...
I'll start with an "Iron Lady" which I see as a tragedy of a lonely old woman (it somehow feels less about a politician, more about a woman), and afterwards I'll talk about "Shame" that tries in an artistic form to explore human beings (you really gotta smile more, because after watching that movie you may as well sing "Help!" by The Beatles). If I rephrase that classic song I may say that you may really need somebody to help you, before you're left alone...
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