Totenkindly
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To be honest, I wasn't expect much from this movie, so I'm kind of shocked to see the kind of reviews it has been getting (extremely EXTREMELY positive and referring to it as an Oscar contender based on its unflinching, non-candy-coated approach).
For example:
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie...s-unflinching-look-mission-bin-223435476.html
Bigelow originally was with James Cameron, and she shot Strange Days off her ex-husband's script (which I considered a decent gritty scifi movie, with Ralph Fiennes playing a non-admirable character and the gutsy Angela Bassett). She's been doing films for years and apparently scored big with The Hurt Locker recently (which I hope to see at some point).
Considering we know how it ends, it's hard sometimes to make that kind of movie work; but as with Argo (which also lived up to hype), apparently the initial rave about this film is pretty intense.
For example:
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie...s-unflinching-look-mission-bin-223435476.html
...director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal don't shy away from depicting the "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding that were used along the way. "The new movie is not for the faint of heart or for those expecting typical Hollywood fare," is how The New York Times put it. And it's not just for the clear-eyed depiction of torture, but also what The Hollywood Reporter describes as "its denial of conventional emotionalism and non-gung ho approach to cathartic revenge-taking."...
...director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal don't shy away from depicting the "enhanced interrogation" techniques like waterboarding that were used along the way. "The new movie is not for the faint of heart or for those expecting typical Hollywood fare," is how The New York Times put it. And it's not just for the clear-eyed depiction of torture, but also what The Hollywood Reporter describes as "its denial of conventional emotionalism and non-gung ho approach to cathartic revenge-taking."
Bigelow originally was with James Cameron, and she shot Strange Days off her ex-husband's script (which I considered a decent gritty scifi movie, with Ralph Fiennes playing a non-admirable character and the gutsy Angela Bassett). She's been doing films for years and apparently scored big with The Hurt Locker recently (which I hope to see at some point).
Considering we know how it ends, it's hard sometimes to make that kind of movie work; but as with Argo (which also lived up to hype), apparently the initial rave about this film is pretty intense.