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Extracted (2012)
Nice premise, horrible dialogue and directing
Movie begins seemingly intelligent but falls apart quick. Every character except one is actually the same, alternating between mumbling incoherent californian dialect and screaming in rage. I was feeling Lol, if this was meant to be underlying psychedelic effect it really comes across as bad directing. Not recommended: it is more drawn out and annoying than the storyline warrants. Heavy on contrived emotion, devoid of cold sci-fi logic.
Hanna (2011)
Don't waste your time on this redundant bubble-gum
Sucks! Hanna is not a good movie, it is a rich kid's C-grade senior project. The most shamelessly boring movie i've seen in years. It tries to be artsy, but u will find better street art in any metropolis. It tries to have up-tempo action scenes with techno music, but techno is cheap and tempo is mid-paced at best. The story is thin and the screenplay is bubble-gum. If u have seen any episode of Dark Angel, then u've seen this movie. If I cut this film it would fit in ~46 minutes. At least then it would be suitable for 2 AM TV showing between the infomercials. In fact, let's take it a step further: I would take the first act with Hanna hunting in the Winter Wonderland, then cut to the scene where she looks in the window at the scary witch's eye, then to the scene where Hanna shoots the witch in self-defense. That's the entire freaking movie! The rest of it is drawn-out filler and all the other characters are irrelevant. The only bit that I've found well-put is the understated killing of Hanna's host family by the CIA after they finished interrogating them.
Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
not what it is publicized to be :-)
I saw this movie for the first time last thursday, march 19. it impressed me so much that i wrote down some notes over the last 2 days and tonite went looking for discussion websites other than screenrant. looks like everybody already has seen it - comments since 2008. and i thought it was brand new :-) anyway, looks like jimina743 beat me to the chase but what follows occurred to me as i was cruzing home from the theatre, honest. to preserve any sense of my excitement i copied and pasted without editing: the feel of this movie is definitely a lot like Japanese Ringu. sparse dialog, hard relationships, supernatural black hair :-) the vampire assistant to oskar analogy is subtly introduced during the movie. i believed the assistant was eli's brother. maybe she was bitten in their childhood. he asked eli not to see the neighbor out of genuine concern for them being discovered. but that's not it.
it may sound absurd but this movie is not about vampires and bloodshed. it is about adolescent psychology. this movie has only 1 character - the boy. all other subjects and events are time-compressed concurrent outcomes of his possible choices in life. it is about the boy's becoming deeply aware of own existence, his past, and the infinite paths of human experience. even the drawn-out length of the film has its intent: time is irrelevant. what may seem like a long time to the viewer is really only a fleeting moment of vivid imagination.
Eli is of course his imaginary friend who is neither male nor female, but a strong-willed entity that eventually needs to "go away in order to survive", i.e. for the child to develop into a young man. Not simply dissipate like a dream but dissolve constructively, hence becoming a part of his psyche. open minds learn from each other exponentially. through this experience he learns to understand emotions and to comprehend his rage and thirst for vengeance. the title is precisely about that - choose which thoughts you let into your mind. i gotta admit this is one of the deepest stories i've seen in my life. of course it may be my imagination running amok here and this explanation is simply coincidental to the filmmakers' intent, a la mulholland drive craze.
(insert a day's break)
great times indeed. I was still high the next day from watching this movie :-) then on Friday night i went to see MDC play live and it was awesome /,,/. tonite i went back for a second look at the movie but it was sold out! so i decided to write some more instead.
continuing my opinion, I want to emphasize one crucial scene where eli first comes to oskar's window. he lets this strange being into his domain, perhaps only to find out how "she" got to there. remember what the vampire told him - it is not a girl, for gender is irrelevant to a pure thought. nor is it a human being for it is as cold as the night. nor are they holding hands while in bed. -->
Oskar's "vision" (most of film's story) starts and ends in the few moments when he is touching the cold window in his room. in the beginning it's his way of saying "good night" to the world and feeling her almost majestic frozen presence through the glass. the night's presence. i know this feeling exactly, because i've done this mini-ritual in my childhood. people from northern countries know what i'm writing about. can't get that effect in most of USA - not cold enough. it is a small step towards perceiving the energy of the universe, though very effective.
back to the movie - it is not the vampire at the window. his own mind looks at him through the window - "through the looking glass". it is oskar's first encounter with self-consciousness, he is seeing himself from the side. and this is the crucial step when he decides to open the window (his mind) to something new. he welcomes a part of his mind that was unknown until now into the light. it is commonly known that a sense of touch can transcend into a dream. in oskar's "dream" he sees the flipside of the real world. it is not a cold vampire behind him in bed, it is the cold window in front. eli's cold hand is not holding his left had - he is touching the cold glass with his right hand. a question arises what will change if he chooses to keep this new awareness (going steady) and he answers to himself - nothing yet. for now it is just a turning point towards a new learning process. "feed your head".