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diff --git a/faith/loving-vincent.rst b/faith/loving-vincent.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 5a0540b..0000000 --- a/faith/loving-vincent.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ -Loving Vincent -############## - -: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 |