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Inland Empire (2006)
Amateur, but amazing at its creativity
The story begins with a girl starring Lora Dern who plays in the melodrama movie directed by the man starring Jeremy Irons. The problem is that the script of the movie or its idea is cursed by some essense of Polish nature. And the movie develops the anxiety of Lora Dern character who loses awareness of differences between reality and dreams, which is very common concept appearing in all David Lynch movies.
With this sort of aim the movie manages to deal with successfully, impressing me with its confusing, but amusingly creative imagery and sequences. I remember most of them, they were not boring or fully out of place.
In addition, the director tried to soften the difficulty of my understanding 3-hour piece by summing up all the confusing scenes in the 6-minute ending with a beautiful song "Polish Poem"
So, keeping in mind that this movie original version was more than 100 hours and that it could be an inevitable random clip mix, I was kinda surprised that it managed to keep overall atmosphere in balance nad peace and to follow at least some sort of intriguing plot, which is usually not a case for independent arthouse movies with deep meaning, but completely random story.
Exodus (2021)
Malevich square watching
I had a unique experience during watching this movie - I was looking into the screen and thinking about different concepts that are not even in the movie. It happened after 20 minutes of nothing which this movie is. I rethought and meditated many problems inside my head because of that which was the only advantage of facing such kind of boring ghost pictures. Maybe confusing idea can be another plus.
It seems broken - people who made it didn't care about money and time spent on doing it. Dialogues just describe what is already explained visually. Personality and motivation of the characters are on the level of: "I'll do this, then do that, but will have to do this to survive". The post-apocalyptic world presented is non-different from the backstage insides in theater.
Dune: Part One (2021)
Do not Drag your children to the theater!
The movie Dune (2021) is telling a story of a young prince or son of Duke, Paul Attreides who in the middle of the conflict and war with other noble families tries to survive and find the way to win it.
The main source of pleasure in this movie is a hypnotic and persuading visual representation of the desert and the gut feel of mystery behind it and behind its resources that had become the reason to this war begin (and some scenes of Sci-fi space content in the begining for giving the science fiction content also work well in 3D too).
You can see the scale and importance of the conflict and the sides of participants who are located in different planets, which makes this movie potentially a good adaptation of an RTS kind of game such as Warcraft or Starcraft where we do not know who we want to fight with but we know the importance of the struggle between sides. Harkonnens, Attreides, Emperor and the Freemen are in the game.
But despite the massive presentation, the movie setting and graphical backgounds are very poor in details of architecture and the color (yellow, black and white). All seems dead and empty. Which is compensated (maybe on purpose) with a strange sound design that (for the meditating effect) can work for people who came to relax in the seats or sleep, but not for people who came to see Lord of the Rings kind of epic scenery.
Characters also seem out of place and non-memorable compared to the book, which was caused by the trials to make plot as undersndable and flawless as possible for a new audience non-familiar with the source material. The problem is that even if we understand the plot, we do not see its power or purpose in contrast to the source material as the drama or chemistry between people on the screen is weak. They are individuals who react enotionally on the plot, but not on each other appearance (the most emotional moment was in trailer). Which could be ok for a video game adaptation or a war movie with insignificant soldiers who will die soon, which this movie was not supposed to be.
Compared to this, despite trials to change the story and turn it into a space fairy tale 1984 version managed to give us a decent chemistry between characters and their short memorable scenes that could point out their importance for the future events.
The emotional power of the war sequence is also downrated because of PG-13 rating - no blood, no violence or even suspenseful tensions for making this movie at least mature.
Overall,
1) The Dune of 2021 is still an experience worth watching in the theatres especially in IMAX, depending on how the visual representaion can be persuasive enough for you to transit a story and means of the books.
2) But do not expect a traditional Great movie with charismatic Jack Sparrow or Tony Stark kind of heroes doing comedy or stunning choreography. In this sense as it tries to be a grand epic war movie (even in more percentage than The Game of Thrones can be) the film is very boring.
3) WARNING!!! Do not bring children below 13 years in the theater, if they are not familiar or not into Sci-fi and Dune Universe. They will be bored to the edge of their seats and will make noises and interrupt the audience which totally ruined my own experience of watching it in the theater.