MovieChat Forums > 476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries Discussion > Hypnotic! The more you see it the more y...

Hypnotic! The more you see it the more you get hooked on it.


You just have to check this film out, because it is just very different! This is one of those bizarre low budget indi films that somehow grows on you. The more you see it, the more you like it.
I bought it on Amazon a month ago, and didn't really care much for it then, but I decided to watch the whole thing again, and the second time I actually really liked it, and just got hooked on it. Perhaps this time I wasn't expecting Russel Crowe in Gladiator, or Gerard Butler in 300, and just watched it for what it is, without the rossi glasses. There is just something about this film that talks to you in its own hypnotic bizarre language, to the point that it made me open my Italian Red Malvasia wine.

The film is obviously low budget, and it's obviously lacking in cinematographic quality, when it comes to the special effects and computer graphics, but that is exactly what makes it interesting. Even though it starts really slow, at moments even comic and just simply bizarre, it catches up in its richness and novel like dynamic, and get to its own by the second act.
It sort of feels like listening to those audio books, only instead of the voice, through the collage of plentiful rich and colorful images, and somehow you just can't take your eyes and ears of it. The film manages to take you to the Mediterranean life it self, to the point that you feel you are actually there.

I caught this right away, because I lived in Italy, which I try to visit at least once a year, and if anything, one thing this indi film caught very well, was the true Roman Mediterranean vibe. From the very beginning of the film, from that specific Mediterranean sun, the specific grape wines you see, the apples, the olives, the plums, and even the cicadas singing in the background, the filmmakers caught every detail that Mediterranean truly has.

Therefore, when in Rome...Saluti!

reply