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-Loving Vincent
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-:date: 2018-03-22T08:03:28
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, film
-
-Movie_ “Loving Vincent” is certainly an experience worthy of the 
-tickets to go to the cinema. The main idea of it is to make 
-“animated” film by painting endless number of quality oil 
-paintings in the style of Vincent van Gogh about the painter 
-himself. I have been warned_ that this idea is actually by far 
-the strongest part of the film, and that the story of the film 
-itself is by far the weakest part of it. I won’t do the spoilers 
-here, but yes the end comes rather flat.
-
-The visual side has been however troubling as well. It is truly 
-beautiful, there is no question about that, but this film showed 
-me the great difference between pictures (especially ones in the 
-tradition of post-van Gogh painting, what a irony!) and films. 
-The great pictures (in all traditions, it applies 
-perfectly well even to Rembrandt’s “Return of the prodigal son”) 
-are best when they don’t tell the whole story, but when they are 
-more a catalyst to make a viewer sit down and think her own 
-story. From this point of view, van Gogh was (with a bit of 
-artistic license) the first painter who stressed this role of 
-pictures even more by omitting a lot of realism and leaving just 
-those catalyst parts of the image.
-
-On the other hand, the biggest beauty of every film is *a story*.  
-Some films are beautiful, have pretty pictures, but what makes or 
-kills it is how the story is made. There is endless list of 
-beautiful pictures which lack a good story (the review of this 
-film points as an example to “`What Dreams May Come`_”). I don’t 
-want to deal now with quality (or lack of thereof) of the story 
-of this film, but I want to emphasize that perception of a film 
-is quite different from the perception of a picture. This 
-difference in perception made me torn to two sides by two 
-different both unpleasant feelings. While beautiful pictures made 
-me feel constantly “Wait! This was a beautiful picture, I would 
-like to watch it properly!” I had also constantly that feeling 
-that I forgot my glasses at home (no, I don’t need glasses for 
-watching films yet). Images in films are not supposed to be 
-abstract, thought-inducing experience, they are suppose to reveal 
-and deliver a story. I had that constant feeling “I would love to 
-see how this girl looks *in reality*.”
-
-So, my conclusion is that it was a great idea. I don’t care that 
-much for the quality (or not) of the film as a film, or 
-a detective story. It was a great experience, I came to new 
-appreciation of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings, but do I welcome 
-the inevitable avalanche of imitations of this film which are to 
-be expected? No, I think once was enough.
-
-
-.. _Movie:
-    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_Vincent
-
-.. _warned:
-    https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/loving-vincent-2017
-
-.. _`What Dreams May Come`:
-    https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/what-dreams-may-come-1998