MIFF 2013 - Day 11
UPSTREAM COLOR
Believe the hype. This is a highly experimental, elliptical science fiction story that I completely loved. Around the festival, there's a lot of bitching about it, and I can understand why. It requires an awareness of certain SF elements to really get what's going on. But it's seriously brilliant, with a score that channels Vangelis at his best. One of the most unusual and inventive science fiction films since, well, since Primer. Hopefully we don't have to wait as long again for another film by Shane Carruth.
DIRTY WARS
Yet another "America is Fucked" film. This time detailing the rise of JSOC, which at this time appears to be an unstoppable paramilitary arm of the Whitehouse, able to assassinate anyone with impunity, and free from any consequence. The film details war crimes, secret wars in 75 countries and more to really give you the sense that America has completely lost it's grip on itself. Formally, the doco suffers too much from being a private journal of the investigative journalist, rather than a piece of reporting itself. I suspect the book on which it's based is more illuminating, but this is enough to scare the shit out you. And also to reinforce the idea that Obama was a Republican plant. Seriously, this isn't the sort of change you want to believe in.
Believe the hype. This is a highly experimental, elliptical science fiction story that I completely loved. Around the festival, there's a lot of bitching about it, and I can understand why. It requires an awareness of certain SF elements to really get what's going on. But it's seriously brilliant, with a score that channels Vangelis at his best. One of the most unusual and inventive science fiction films since, well, since Primer. Hopefully we don't have to wait as long again for another film by Shane Carruth.
DIRTY WARS
Yet another "America is Fucked" film. This time detailing the rise of JSOC, which at this time appears to be an unstoppable paramilitary arm of the Whitehouse, able to assassinate anyone with impunity, and free from any consequence. The film details war crimes, secret wars in 75 countries and more to really give you the sense that America has completely lost it's grip on itself. Formally, the doco suffers too much from being a private journal of the investigative journalist, rather than a piece of reporting itself. I suspect the book on which it's based is more illuminating, but this is enough to scare the shit out you. And also to reinforce the idea that Obama was a Republican plant. Seriously, this isn't the sort of change you want to believe in.
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