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Re: August 2010 MDC: Filmspotters' Top 250
« Reply #180 on: August 03, 2010, 09:16:34 AM »
Nice haircut Dustin Hoffman.  :P

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Re: August 2010 MDC: Filmspotters' Top 250
« Reply #181 on: August 04, 2010, 02:44:42 PM »
For THATguy:

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« Reply #182 on: August 04, 2010, 04:19:00 PM »
yay!
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Re: August 2010 MDC: Filmspotters' Top 250
« Reply #183 on: August 08, 2010, 09:28:17 PM »
roujin, got something for 'Noke?
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« Reply #184 on: August 08, 2010, 10:10:49 PM »
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Re: August 2010 MDC: Filmspotters' Top 250
« Reply #185 on: September 28, 2010, 09:19:54 PM »
Ratcatcher

Hum, hummm, huuuum.

Well, I do tend to like films about kids and this one does capture a lot of great moments involving kids. Oliver, in particular, greatly embodies that childlike sense of wonder even amid a world that oppresses his dreams and ambitions.

There are also a lot of fantastic looking shots throughout the film.

But beyond that, I didn't find much to latch onto. The story is interesting, it has some interesting dramatic beats, but the overall tone and the wider context of what is going on in this location failed to make anything click in this film.

And it's odd, because after I watched this I just felt like I missed something, that maybe if I figured out what this film was trying to do it would all click. I thought about it for a while, but I just couldn't figure it out. Yea, one of those.

I can't knock it for doing anything wrong, I just didn't get it.  :-\

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Re: August 2010 MDC: Filmspotters' Top 250
« Reply #186 on: September 28, 2010, 09:57:21 PM »
Really, Sam? The garbage strike as an allegory for the continual build-up of garbage in the kid's life and the fact that they can come off of strike to remove the garbage from his neighborhood but he can never do anything about his situation so the garbage will just continually build up until he dies, never clicked for you? The sense of hopelessness and despair that is the kid's life, the routine of everyday life that is all he will ever have to look forward to. The crushing of his dreams as represented by the treatment of his friends, or was it his, pet mouse. The grime, the dirtiness, the despair, the longing for a better life that you know will never come, and knowing that life is just a short bus ride away but it's a bus ride that will always end in a return trip for you? None of that clicked for you?

P.S.: Not being condescending, a quick read through sounded that way to me, but it's late, I'm tired and that was the best way my brain could formulate my point at this time, so no worries, Sam, my intentions or manner wasn't meant to be condescending at all.

 

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