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18 February 2008 (USA)
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This is 75 minutes and 6 seconds of pure blue screen. Nothing less and nothing more.
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The tag line pretty much says it all. This film is 75 minutes of pure blue screen. Not only that, but all of director Nigel Tomm's films are like this. His purpose, apparently, is to let the audience imagine what's occurring on the screen without filming it.
What's wrong with this picture? Well, first off, film is a F*CKING VISUAL MEDIUM!!!! You watch it to see images, and those images can mean different things depending on who you are! Depriving a film of it's images is to rape and destroy everything that film stands for! Would Bergman or Kubrick have come to be hailed as masters of the cinematic art form if they just filmed a blue screen for 75 minutes? F*CK NO!!! They could create true art, not this fake-@ss, wannabe art trash.
Speaking of which, despite directors such as Michael Bay and Rob Cohen's attempts to discredit the medium, film is art. And art takes many forms, such as a simple shot of the sun reflecting of a rock to a car chase down the Manhattan freeway. Again, all images that leave an impression on our mind. You can't just turn in a blank screen and call it art, it defies everything that art stands for. Art is about images, not this meta-film bullsh!t.
I can appreciate director Tomm's ambition to open up the viewer's imagination, but this is just the definition of sheer and total f*cking laziness. It takes a steaming sh!t on the legacies of directors such as Kubrick and Tarchovsky, who worked hard to produce art, and didn't just film color bars and pass them off as cinema. Films like this are the reason I stopped watching art-house flicks. Everyone's too g*dd@mn lazy to film good art anymore. What a f*cking waste.