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Cinematography?

posted 9 years ago by terrien-scott
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I have a posted that I did not like this movie earlier. It was on last night, so I took a second look, could I have been wrong? The photography in this movie was poor. The whole movie was color was washed out. When I go to the mountains, the colors are vivid, not washed out. One more thing was the depth of field, it was blurry. It was like amateur hour. Yves Belanger was in charge of cinematography, was he asleep at the wheel. Did he mean to shoot a blurry movie. I got a headache watching this.
And, yes I must say it. Maybe I am different, but when I am in the mountains, past memories just fade to nothing, overwhelmed by the majesty of nature. This for me was where this movie missed the mark. Well maybe I am just different...yeah.

[–] Ross259 8 years ago

Try adjusting the tracking on your VCR. Hope this helps.

[–] 8 years ago

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[–] michaeltrenton 8 years ago

The whole movie was color was washed out. When I go to the mountains, the colors are vivid, not washed out.

You could make the same complaint about hundreds of other films with a desaturated look. It's a creative choice by the filmmakers. This isn't a National Geographic documentary about nature, this is a film about a woman at a difficult point in her life who undertakes this hike as a journey of redemption. Good cinematography is about supporting the story and characters depicted in the film, not about showing realism.

Maybe I am different, but when I am in the mountains, past memories just fade to nothing, overwhelmed by the majesty of nature. This for me was where this movie missed the mark.

So you'd rather have this film be about a troubled woman who then suddenly forgot all about her problems the moment she got to experience some nice scenery? I'd say that makes for a rather different and duller story.
Remember that she was a deeply troubled person who spent almost a hundred days on this trip, wouldn't you expect her to sometimes during those hundred days reflect upon and being reminded of her problems and why she set out on the trip in the first place? I'd say that's pretty natural.