Paradise (2016)
4/10
The documentary part makes it slow
7 December 2017
Warning: Spoilers
For a long time watching this movie, I'm wondering, what do you intend with the documentary part? I have come to the conclusion that I did not know how to state what I wanted and decided to do so. Actors looking at camera. But to me at least, this makes the film very slow and also makes me lose interest and sometimes lose myself. We have seen Nazi movies many times. This is one of them in which the Nazis, if we did not know about them, would not be bad. You do not see them doing anything bad. If they tell it, but this is cinema and it has to be shown, in a novel it is written, here it is told in image. As it is done as in episodes, it is sometimes cumbersome. Sometimes he loses you.

It has a way of making the plans that surprise me on the one hand today. The camera is fixed and he does not care if the actors leave the screen. Cut bodies, heads, entire characters, it does not matter. He does not care where he puts the camera, he just wants to tell a script and he does not care how.

The actors are very good, it's true. Even children, the little that lets us see their faces, are fine. They convey what the characters have to feel, pity that the director does not know how to pick it up.

The picture is pretty good, in the documentary part, I do not know why those moments are like burning the tape. In the film part too, but when you put a lot of light through the windows, I do not like it, there is a moment when an actor looks like a ghost.

The director, is not very clear about some things. He knows what he wants to tell, but between making tricky episodes and not knowing how to position the camera, he makes the film long and slow.

I think it's a misused movie
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