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I was just thinking

posted 10 years ago by kassha-1
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This is a slow moving picture, but it's slow to give readers enough time to think about the scenes. Maybe people that call movies slow are people that aren't watching them fully, and just want something easy on the eyes. That's fine, but there are movies like that, and there are movies like these. Theres no need to call it bad, because it's not what youre looking for. I think that's why it has such a low rating. I like that its words are minimal, the scenes are powerful and you can figure out whats going on by the dialog, making it more interesting in my opinion. Also, its easier for my English speaking friends to watch, they can read fast enough to focus on the scenes and not be taken away from the movie. I love this movie. 5/5 .. 9/10. It captured my heart and showed war for what it really is. People should go on expecting horrible things to happen, not think it is some glamorous sentimental idealistic way of serving the country. Every country thinks they're right. If everyone's right, who's wrong?

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[–] dragon_beauty 10 years ago

Well said. I competely agree with you. This is a beautiful and very meaningful, and very true movie. Not slow, just perfect for what it is.

[–] the_lounge_clowns 10 years ago

I believe you were tricked. Not every slow movie is a good movie and not every movie that isn’t suitable for mass markets is immediately an art movie. As a regular arthouse visitor I understand where your argumentation is coming from, but you can’t simply say that people who gave it a low score didn’t watch the film properly and people who gave it a high score did.

You say that the movie grants the viewer enough time to think about the scenes. I say that there wasn’t that much to think about, because every theme has been done so many times before and so many times better.

You say that you like it that the words are minimal. I say that the few words that they do speak, are futile and superfluous. Sentences like “can you deliver my coat to Anelya… it’s hard to come by good coats as a widow” or “bullets aren’t toys” aren’t exactly sentences that gave me a new mindblowing perspective of war.

To end things positively. The movie had some interesting bits and I liked the slow pacing. Mainly because, with this pacing, war isn’t sensationalized. Something many warfilms and even anti-warfilms do. An ok movie, but for me nothing mindblowing or breathtaking.

[–] cementmixer1234 10 years ago

Slow movies are fine, but I found the pace of In the Fog to be a bit dragged out. The storytelling just wasn't as engaging as necessary to sustain something that moves along this slowly. It's well made from a technical standpoint, but the rest of it is lacking. The dialogue in particular was pretty poor. On the few occasions they did speak it was the banal, repetitive type of things that try to pass for realistic. And then in the end the main character goes into some monologue about war that seemed terribly silly and out of place.

Although it sounds like it, I didn't out and out dislike the film, but came away pretty disappointed after the director's previous movie, My Joy, which I loved.

[–] brada-7 10 years ago

I enjoyed the cinematography, the characters, and the pacing.

[–] DurakSuka 9 years ago

I completely disagree. The direction was horrendous.

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