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The Double Hour it is not a thriller


I have as soon as seen the italian film “the double hour”(2009) of Capotondi, go well that it is a work before and therefore it must be generous, but from this to define it a thriller full of dramatic turn of events runs some to us. It has written it to who evidently does not know or it has not never seen a thriller, besides not to have the minimal conception of the dramatic turn of events, atmospheres to background thriller or the noir French. I do not want to make comparisons with Hitchcock, it would not have sense and not even the overseas cinematography, would be enough see again a French classic like: "Les Diaboliques” (1954) of Henri George Clouzot, in order to understand what is a thriller, with tension and dramatic turn of events. Now not within of the merit of the history of the Italian film, than if it had been introduced various from the kind thriller, it would have many positive arrows to its arc, for the history originates them very and constructed, but outside from the thriller. We pass to the performance of the actors: In the " The double hour" , the feeling is had to suffer from an unexpected attack of deafnesses, forced to raise the sound- to speak, without to obtain no result. The actors whisper with discharged air, remaining “monochromium plateed us” in all the film, without never to change their performance to the service of their character, the question is, because? … They are good actors, but the result in this case is soporific. Returning to the film:“Les Diabolique”, the actors who compose the cast: True Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Simone Signoret, Michel Serrault, Charles Vanel, recite using "rainbow"and the existing chromatic shadings, without never to scream , to whisper some, putting itself perfectly to the service of the film, entering in the atmospheres that a thriller must have, in osmosis processing way. I did not want and I do not want to ditch the film, who begins always goes supported, but I do not support who creates, from the pages of newspapers and, myths of clay, not only screaming to the miracle, creating false expectations and more worse still, deceiving and damaging she has realized it to who that she will not have reason to put itself in argument, improving itself. I would want more honesty than judgments from who of it must in order to return to fly high with the Italian cinema.Perhaps sometimes to watch itself behind (like the French film up) ago well, and not only for culture and acquaintance, but for humility of attempts.

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Next time write in Italian, this isn't English...

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You're an idiot. This website is in English. And everyone can see this film, not only people who speak Italian.

http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=12180629

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Oh well, you must be a genius if you understood what chiararomana wrote...
I'm Italian and I can understand it because it must be some kind of automatic translation from my language. I wonder what an English speaking person would make of her post...

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Sorry, I was too fast with my post. I thought you meant he should write in Italian (I didn't read the post at first). It clearly looks like a Google translation, so you're right.

http://imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=12180629

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I am not only Italian, but I speak the language as a complete genius as well. And I see she used a translator, so what? I understand her perfectly. You're just a dick.

ChiaraRomana, sono d'accordo con te. Non e' un thriller psicologio, piuttosto era una dramma..e seconda me, (e questo e' solo il mio parere soltanto) non era molto buona. :D


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I'll be honest I don't get what chiararomana_2007 is going on about either but hey he name drops Les Diaboliques so I'll give Double Hour a chance. Not many people have said anything about it here so rough translation from ita to eng is better than nothing.

"Censors tend to do what psychotics do,they confuse reality with illusion" David Cronenberg

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automatic translations are evil. I just laughed out loud when I realized that "go well that it is a work before" is "va bene che è un'opera prima" (in proper English: "I admit it's a debut").

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Nope, not a thriller, agreed.

http://shareddarkness.com/2011/04/29/double-hour.aspx

^ Sounds pretty good, though.

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I have no idea what Chiaramana is really trying to say, but i would say this: There are films that are thrillers of a psychological, or even metaphysical nature, rather than an action or suspense nature. The question in them becomes not "whodunit" or "will he/she do it again" but "whydunit" or "whahappened." These types of thrillers are usually European (e.g., "Blow-Up") but sometimes American (e'g., "The Conversation," "Mulholland Drive").

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Did you use babel fish to translate? lol

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No, it's not a thriller, which is to say, a movie where the protagonist(s) are in peril. It's not trying to be a thriller. Criticizing the movie for what it's not trying to be is myopic. What's it's trying to be, in fact, is much more complex than a thriller.

There's a genre that's sometimes called mind*beep* but which I prefer (as of 10 minutes ago when I made it up) to call omgitiut, which stands for "Oh my God, I think I understand this" (a line, of course, from Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe). In an mystery, you don't know stuff, but you know exactly what it is that you don't know. In an omgitiut, you either don't know that you don't know, or you realize quickly that you can't be sure what you know and what you don't. Classic omgitiuts of the first type include Vertigo, The Prestige, and The Sixth Sense, while those of the second include Memento and Donnie Darko . This is quite a fine example of the first type.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

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It borrows slightly from the French thriller "Tell No One" which IMO is a much better film. I liked "Double Hour" though - it kept me guessing till the last moment which I think is a definition of a thriller.

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