Review of Z

Z (1969)
8/10
Z is a landmark and masterpiece of political thrillers
21 April 2010
Z is a powerful,intense,realistic and compelling political thriller which tells the real story of assassination of an leftist political leader,the conspiracy behind his assassination, its investigation and at the end aftermath of the events.

in fact i am not aware with the history of the Greece much,but i like political thriller very much,but this movie was very different from others in many ways.instead of being based on real story and without any dramatic twists ,the movie was thoroughly entertaining. the first one hour of the movie doesn't reveal too much,you have to wait until second half to get some real action when investigation begins and then movie became really interesting.

the movie was filmed in a very stylish way without loosing its realistic feel. the best achievement of the movie was its editing,the very fine and shortly edited scene to jump to flashback for short time leaves great effect on audience.scenes in which character revealing important past events the scene jumped to the that event very finely that audience doesn't feel any change and also with the sound of the character as narrator all this things give a very stylish feel to the movie and bind the audience deeply inside the story of movie.

another great thing was cinematography,the long duration shots are not shooted from a one place for long time but they always move the camera around the characters without editing,giving audience a very detailed and close view of that event.the very fine and small details are also get captured which makes audience more relative to the event. this type of film technique are not used by Hollywood and Asian cinemas,only martin Scorsese use this type of cinematography and editing.

script was also very balanced,very realistic and gives description of true events but also doesn't lack intensity and interest as they also added some funny characters and some thrilling scenes of chasing.the pace of the movie throughout was same but not cold and doesn't felt us bored.

you can watch this movie even you are unknown with the history and importance of events that happened in movies because this movie will totally be a new experience for you because of its stylish presentation.
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