When the lady serves beer to the workers, one guy says the beer is from or for the film crew. Was this supposed to be weird?
sharei don´t remember that, what makes another spot for the cheeta? (que fue eso?) this movie is awful... more awful now... the director just leave that audio? why i saw this crap? why?
shareThat is a really good observation! I never noticed that. I would assume it is partly the way the film achieves a sort of documentary-ness. Kind of like the film "Taste of Cherry". You often sense the presence of the filmmakers, like in the scene w/the men singing during their work break. That seems like it could've came out of b-roll.
shareJapon is indeed a unique movie. I probably posted this right after watching the movie, so don't feel bad if you didn't catch it. Overall, I wasn't crazy about this movie.
shareI thought it was the most out-of-place thing in the whole movie. That's definitely a Kiarostamian action. The film's whole basic setting is picked up from Taste of Cherry and other Kiarostamian things include the distant shots of action taking place in the mountains. But yeah, it's something that I would've left out entirely from this one.
shareReygadas definitely wears his influences on his sleeve. This Kiarostami nod is one such instance, and it gets even more evident when one of his major influences becomes the narrative at one point in Silent Light.
Whether that's good or bad is for the individual to decide. I tend not to mind it in theory, but I don't care for the way Reygadas goes about it. He's so very not subtle about it that it's like he's cheapening good things by interrupting them to give shout outs on daytime tv.
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