I went to see
Aronofsky's new
movie yesterday
(as you would know if you were following me on twitter). I'm glad I went,
but it was somewhat disappointing. It suffers the
same
problem as Kill Bill; lots of formalism, lots of beauty, but
ultimately signifying nothing.
I think the biggest problem is that the main characters are so
abstracted that we don't really care about them. Both Pi and Requiem
for a Dream were highly stylized and abstract as well, but the lead
characters and situation were strong and personal enough to create
emotional connection. In this film the characters exist in a bubble of
formal beauty, inaccessible to us.
Still it is awfully beautiful, and the music's great, and there's some nice symbolism for its own sake. If you're a film geek it's worth watching. |