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Post by alexanderblanchett on Oct 11, 2018 21:59:34 GMT
It was a decent movie. The first half was in the tradition of Paul Greengrass' "United 93" , a more or less realistic description of a brutal and cruel attack. The film itself however concentrates more on the aftermath and tells the story out of the perspective of one victim and the attacker himself which was the right decision for a film like this. There is another film that depicts the Norwegian terror attack from 2011, called "Utoya" which is a better film I urgently recommend to see. This was stil different because it did not emphasize on the attack itself but rather the outcome and gives us a view into the totally disturbing mind of Anders Breivik. The acting is good enough. Anders Danielsen Lie is truly good and really makes his character uncomfortable to watch which made the performance even better. I really loved Jonas Strand Gravil who plays one of the victim and the one the film mostly concentrates on. The images and cuts are similar to most Greengrass films, so he is faithful to his style. Not his greatest work but a very watchable non-fiction.
Nominations:
None
Rating: 8/10
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Post by JangoB on Oct 12, 2018 12:56:31 GMT
This was fine but a bit underwhelming. Greengrass tries to pack so much in here (the perspectives of the government + the survivors + the terrorist) that he ends up sort of on the surface of each of those storylines, and while as a whole the film does indeed seem to provide a pretty clear view on how this horrific event played out, the individual storylines feel a tad undercooked. I also feel a little uneasy about Greengrass devoting so much time to the terrorist and essentially creating this weird space or platform for his horrific views to be spelled out so thoroughly. Some of the writing also felt a little lacking and simplistic so while Greengrass is always good at handling visceral recreations of real life tragedies, he may not be as great with the more story and dialogue-related stuff of the aftermath.
The visual style is totally stripped down here, creating a pretty cold feeling but that actually works well. And it's a good, properly disturbing film. But I expected it to be better.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 12, 2018 13:45:57 GMT
I thought it was tastefully and respectfully done, as you expect with Paul Greengrass. It was nicely performed and calmly, but still effectively written. I do feel it was 15 - 20 minutes too long, and it would have been no less impactful, had some of the more drawn out scenes been cut down. I thought it was unfortunate that they kept hinting at doing something substantive the the survivor guilt of the younger brother, but wasted the opportunity.
8/10, current #13 of the year.
Current Nominations:
Best Adapted Screenplay (#5) Best Film Editing (#5) Best Sound Editing (#2)
Jonas Strand Gravli and Anders Danielsen Lie are my #6 & #7 in Lead Actor for now.
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Post by stephen on Oct 15, 2018 4:17:10 GMT
I don't know if I can say I loved it, considering the subject matter, but Greengrass brought his trademark tact and refusal to manipulate for emotional effect to create a mature, low-key yet still incredibly resonant film. I'm so delighted that his cinematography seemed restrained, as I feel it's what kept Captain Phillips from being a perfect movie. The cast was sublime, but funnily enough, I was mentally recasting with known A-listers with each role that popped up (Pablo Schreiber as the shooter, Mark Rylance as the defense attorney, Mare Winningham as his assistant, Damian Lewis as the prime minister, etc., etc.). The film is lengthy, but it manages to straddle the line between procedural and personal quite nicely.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 18, 2018 3:53:15 GMT
It's good, better than I was expecting after the responses it got, but it's not great. The depiction of the attack is so graphic to the point that it's insensitive... and beyond that, it really starts to drag in the last half hour or so, and Greengrass' documentarian take is characteristically insipid. The middle 90-minutes of the film or so, though, are absolutely gripping, and, for me (someone who didn't know much about this even beforehand), totally engrossing and fascinating. Anders Danielsen Lee is damn good in this. A haunting turn that is one of the best performances of the year thus far.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 18, 2018 3:53:56 GMT
Mark Rylance as the defense attorney I KNEW he kept reminding me of someone. That is spot-on.
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