This might be the most frustrating movie I've ever seen. It was good for what it was, but Ken Russell was simultaneously a great and awful choice, though I'm not saying Paddy's script was perfect either.
After Hurt (whose performance is brilliant) turned into an ape, I thought a certain threshold had been passed. I've heard that someone wanted the great Andrei Tarkovsky to direct, but even he couldn't work with that, and this is coming from an obsessive Tarkovsky fan.
And even if Jessup's search for spiritual awakening was doomed to fail, it didn't have to end the hollow, "love power" way it did.
All in all, I highly recommend the film, but it's for me a very depressing 100-odd minutes. I want to rewrite and remake this.
After Hurt (whose performance is brilliant) turned into an ape, I thought a certain threshold had been passed. I've heard that someone wanted the great Andrei Tarkovsky to direct, but even he couldn't work with that, and this is coming from an obsessive Tarkovsky fan.
And even if Jessup's search for spiritual awakening was doomed to fail, it didn't have to end the hollow, "love power" way it did.
All in all, I highly recommend the film, but it's for me a very depressing 100-odd minutes. I want to rewrite and remake this.
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