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cutting and editing

posted 13 years ago by saraleach
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Did anyone have a problem with the cutting and editing of this movie? I generally was moved by the story and the acting was excellent, however I found the fast cuts in the first 10-15 min. distracting. In some cases, a quick shot didn’t seen to have any real relevance to the story line or even to the “feel” of the movie. There were some scenes at the camp, mostly just flashes of the buildings and grounds that also seemed somehow out of the flow. Does anyone else feel this way?

[–] Torian06 13 years ago

I'm not a cineaste, just one who loves to view movies in my few free hours in a day but I didn't have any trouble at all with this movie and I really don't know what you say about the cutting and editing, least of all with the "feel" of this movie. I hope someone who have the know-how of this technical aspect of filmmaking will come to discuss these with you.

All I know, personally speaking, is that I felt the tension all throughout my viewing, the atmosphere of a threat, the determined attempt to snuff out the truth, the shadow of death hovering in the Gulag, the desperation, the hopelessness so much so that to be dead seemed more acceptable than living in that miserable hellish place. And Emily Watson is simply great in her performance as the victim of truth manipulation as happens not unusually in authoritarian rule in whatever place in this planet. That actor who portrayed the devilish Beylin - those elfin ears - was excellent as one of the antagonist in the movie, he was so good that seeing him, irony of all ironies, also in that prison and bedridden made me smile triumphantly when Evgenia snarled at him : "Innocent? You rot in hell."

Truth inexorably,inscrutably seeks and reveals Itself into the Light.