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couponmoneysaving · 6 years ago
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saraelfe · 6 years ago
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felstaff · 14 years ago
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The Way Back (2010)
Having seen remarkably few video fillums in 2010, I decided to make 2011 my Year Of The Film, where I watch at least a few films a week, and then I thought "why not impart my judgement upon the internet; there's a medium that's starved of opinion".
So I present to you, my Movie of the Now. What will it encompass? Fillums I watch, whether it be on DVD, on a giant blank screen surrounded by strangers attached to popcorn nosebags, Betamax, or its lesser cousin, the Charity-Shop VHS.
The Way Back
The last Peter Weir film I saw was The Truman Show and I think the only others of his I've watched with my eyes have been Dead Poet's Society and Gallipoli. All of which I've enjoyed. They tended to be sweeping affairs, well acted, but I got the feeling that Weir likes long silences between dialogue, for impactful purposes? Anyway, I saw this because it was the only film in the hyper-cinematropoloid that suggested any substance. After swiftly passing by the grotesquely rotating, sweating hotdogs, I was pleased to find that they didn't even bother with any pre-advertising, sweeping straight into a few trailers and then cracking on with the fillum itself.
The story concentrates on some escapees from a Gulag in 1941. They walk 4,000 miles to India, trekking through the freezing blizzards of Siberia, the hazy mosquito-ridden rocky lands of Russia, the expansive sandy dunescape of Mongolia, the misty beauty of the Himalayas, and a short stop via some tea fields in India. It's an epic road movie, only without roads or modes of transportation. In terms of epicness, it can, I guess, be only described as "sweeping".
That's roughly it. The film focuses on the desperation of humanity's will to survive against unforgiving nature, as the seven escapees gradually drop to three. There's a lot of gratuitous sore-foot shots, but aside from that, there's no real interaction between the characters. The introduction of a woman (Polish-Russian alleged collective farm escapee Irena) manages to bridge some of the communication gaps, and we get to know about the male escapees' past through her tittle-tattling and gossip. However when she's not in the picture, the dialogue is perfunctory and not really fleshed out. As expected from a group of strangers from different ethnic and social backgrounds, no-one actually talks to each other, leaving a film which amounts to two hours of walking a very long way.
Although that's no bad thing, per se. The scenery is well pretty, like. Expansive landscapes, comprising of ice, sand or rock, are well-shot. The infinite panorama of deserts, hills, flatlands and mountains serve as apt metaphors for what freedom is truly like; lovely, but can kill you if you're not equipped. That's less of a metaphor, more of a literal argument that nature really doesn't like humans; we're not geared up for her extreme temperatures. Exposure to the elements really sucks.
Like most road movies, the fun is in the journey, rather than the destination. This film is no fun. There's a little warmth in the characterisation; Mr. Smith (Ed Harris, looking and sounding all gruff-like, as if Hollywood's suddenly fallen in love with ageing husky actors with deep-lined walnut-faced frowns. I blame the resurgences of Jeff Bridges and Mickey Rourke) adds a level of wizened humanity and mystique, and is quite easy to sympathise with, despite you not knowing much about why he, an American, is imprisoned in Soviet Russia until nearly 2/3 through the film. Colin Farrell's turn as the indebted Russian thug who'd murder you as soon as look at you is well-executed. I liked his tattoo of Lenin 'n' Stalin across his chest. Farrell does hard-man quite well, even if the Russian-with-a-Cyrillic-backwards-R accent was a little too much.
I liked it, for the scenery at least. Less so the constant walking, dying of thirst/cold/hunger/exposure, and doing little else. It was like watching a beautiful nature documentary, and having it spoiled by these people with footsores all the time. A little harsh, but the story never actually happened, either. Would be cool if it did, though.
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saraelfe · 6 years ago
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