Did David Lynch
created two stories connecting them with the name Camilla Rhodes, did he
presented some dream or subconscious of Diane Selwyn it will remain a riddle in
my head, but the movie is for sure memorable, and uniquely presented. I did
love the song Llorando, and for me it is the most representational part of the
movie, the song is just carved into my heart. The woman is collapsing, but
still her voice continues while the girls are crying touched from the lyrics
and its representation “I’m crying for your love, which is now gone somewhere
else”. As if they are realizing and expecting the second part of the film, the uglier
part, which comes shortly after. It is not a film that you can see every week,
but it is a film of whom you will be talking about during after parties with
people.
Polish – French
production, European style…which is a bit difficult to watch, but extraordinary
twist at the end. Although it lacks that open space cadre, it’s a bit closed
and dark, but all European movies have that. At first the arrival of Ethan Hawke
(the troubled writer) in Paris, to see his daughter was just a sequence of his “mental
illness” that didn’t even go noticed. But a sympathetic feeling from the audience
of a poor man, his wife is such a bitch who divorced him, fly over the ocean
just to separate him from his child, or is it something more to the story? He writes letters to his 6 year daughter every day, promising soon to be together, and to compensate for lost time. The
progress of the story also didn’t indicate any soon resolution to his problem,
although he was trying desperately. He found a place to stay in a suspicious
and poor café in, found a job in an even more bizarre place… and almost at the
same time he meets two woman, or two woman shows interest in him, which gives
you the sense that he just might get out of his mess, and reestablish his life again… the first one young Polish girl, the works in the cafe, and the second mature elegant and mysterious that lives on the fifth. He spend time with both of them and upuntil the very end he realizes that the one of them is a pure figment of imagination, his alter ego. More so that she is the
initiator for resolving his fears in a most extreme way. The other woman, the
real one is a stone or element that gives balance to the story, and to his sanity. When he realizes
his “sickness” and his behavior from it, from his alter ego he chooses the only logical thing for
saving his daughter, saving her from him... he chooses to leave.
This
could be the second or the third time for me watching this movie, and then it occurred
to me that it’s been years since I put my thought at this blog of mine. So here
it is:
The idea is genius, I like it from the beginning to the end. The soul thought of
something that can be initiated to someone else via mind manipulation is ancient from
the time humans could think, but put it in a very creative way like this on the
screen is even more exciting. I was expecting a twist at the end, to tell you
the truth. I was hoping that the character of Cobb would trick Saito at the end
that it was still some way of tricking him into reviling his company secrets, but
this was ok ending to. The details
when they sink deeper and deeper from one dream, to the next was super, especially
the van flying moments parallel with the hotel scene with no gravity effect.
Like the one idea is fully transferred in the next dream. Although I would
expect the same outcome even in the third dream. But I assume that it would be difficult
to film that. And especially I liked the last scene with the kids,
when he rolled the humming top, basically telling us that the all movie was Cobb’s
own dream. That he didn’t even woke up from it the all time. Which imposes the
question did he even had a wife? Or did he even have children? Was Mal just a
structure in his own design?
In my humbled opinion I would think that everybody will contemplate or sense the
movie of its own way. And will get a different message then I. Take a breath
and see if the world you created for yourself is real or not? Or is it just a
figment of your deeper inner self?
Excellent story! Chris Kraus made an
extraordinary choice combining the two actresses Hannah Herzsprung playing Jenny
von Loeben and Monica
Bleibtreu as Mrs. Kruger.
It all takes place in a women’s prison,
where Mrs. Kruger gives piano lessons to the inmates.
Mrs. Kruger’s first impression of
young Jenny is immediate rejection. She refuses to give lessons to a vulgar person
that makes her own hands sore, but then in a state of rage, after almost
beating an officer to death, young Jenny starts to play and Mrs. Kruger
reconsiders. Then she sees the girl’s potential.
Mrs. Kruger character is shown as a
senior teacher, very strict, with no respect for nothing but the beauty in
classical music. Her fascination of this young women, this uncommonly “wunder
kid” sort of, reminds her of a girl she used to know, a girl that she was in
love with, and sow killed. Young Jenny got stuck in this place in her younger
years. She was a victim of circumstances in life, abused by her father, sexually
and psychologically, got involved with some boy, and ends up in prison for
murder. There she got to a point where she doesn’t feel a thing for anything or
anybody, blunt her emotions. This is where the piano teacher steps in. She
offers Jenny guidance in making her better pianist, but not a better person. To
do that she must listens to everything Mrs. Kruger says and not wanting
anything in return. She specifically emphases the importance and beauty of
music and the sacrifice that she will have to make for it. Enrolling her to the
contest of young artist and working with her day by day, stage by stage, she
makes the deviant young woman realizes the significance in life itself. This
structure of bad young woman and old strict teacher became their thread in which
they both see a way out. The young one as a glance of hope and the old one, as
a way of leaving something worthwhile behind. As time goes by, they create a
bond, unbreakable one. Even though there are some problems with convincing the
warden to let her compete, Mrs. Kruger decides to act on her own anyway, and by
doing so she releases herself of guilt that she wears since her youth. She
didn’t do a thing then to save her love, but she is doing, correcting that
mistake now, by secretly transporting Jenny to the competition.
The competition itself means
freedom, for both, a moment of life, a pure pleasure, an explosion of emotions boiled
in 4 minutes. The one by giving (making) that explosion, and the other one by receiving
(achieving) it.
The story about a vindictive
assassin girl is not new, but this story definitely has some innovations. The
character is built on a vengeance, and as we watch we sympathize all her
actions. Her exquisite looks make the film even more attractive to watch. She
kills fast, efficient, smooth, you can’t even see her moves, that how good of
an assassin she is, and on the other hand, she had to alienate from everybody
(boyfriend, uncle, grandmother) to become the best there is, and to find the
one responsible for her transformation, her parent’s killer. She (Cataleya) the
main protagonist, after seeing her parents get killed in front of her in their
home in Bogotá, smartly runs away to her family in Chicago. There by the guidance of her uncle,
she becomes top assassin. Although she learns how to be invisible, she didn’t
learn to let her vengeance go. Witch is the catalyst of the all story. After
each kill, she draws an orchid, her family emblem just to transfer a message to
her parent’s killer that she didn’t forget, and she is coming. Eventually she
gets the message through, action witch will doom her uncle and grandmother,
casualties that she earlier didn’t understand will fall.
Some of the scenes are original,
which I love and they are the ones that make this movie excellent, and exiting
while you watch. The poll crossing with sharks in, was one of those scenes. At
the end, she did the only thing that was in her mind ever since she was a child;
revenge her family, but at what price?! She is now alone, and has no one, which
poops the question, has it been really worth it?!
Two best friends anticipate their own wedding
from the age of 7, and been dreaming about it ever since, carefully planning
and following the trends. One of them a teacher, quit, always let someone else
to lead, and the other, strict, never backs down, determent, leader.
Accidentally they both end up with the same date for their wedding, and their
problems begin. They start to trick and back stab one another. The quiet one
becomes fighter, cruel, and more aware of her submissiveness, which becomes a
problem for her fiancée, and the other one, looses her compass, but finds it
with her soon husband to be. Everything turns upside and down, and in order for
everything to get back to normal, there has to be like in every story, break
down, followed by fight between the two best friends on their wedding day, and
then realization or admitting of each others fault, repenting for their
foolishness. All ends up like it supposed to.
One of the hideous movies ever! I haven’t seen
such a bad film, but this one goes to the charts:)) I dig the story, about finding the beauty
from with in, but honestly, who wrote the script?! Who choose the actors?! Horrible
producing! I wouldn’t recommend this movie not even to Golden Raspberry award.
That is all what I have to say about this “peace of art”.
