Post by oneflyr on Mar 5, 2017 8:34:06 GMT
I think they're two of the best writers working in the industry right now, and two of the best filmmakers overall.
In many movies, characters serve for little else than to advance the plot, while these two always take their time to fully flesh out their characters, in all their complexity and nuance. Margaret is a fantastic character study of a young girl discovering the real world and losing her innocence for the first time ....it's messy, chaotic and all over the place, but that's how adolescence, and the transition to adulthood, often is. Another Year is a very authentic, moving portrayal of deep, lasting unfulfillment and emotional fragility. It's funny at times, uncomfortable and awkward at others, but never less than real.. and that's what we always get with Lonergan and Mike Leigh, characters that never feel like fake, written creations or mouthpieces, instead they leap off the screen as real, actual human beings, that we may as well encounter in our own, daily life. They never shy away from showing little bits of details, quirks, eccentricities or dialogue that others may consider superfluous or dispensable, which actually add so much to the whole picture. and that's a very commendable feat, not very often seen these days, in my opinion.
What do you all think?
In many movies, characters serve for little else than to advance the plot, while these two always take their time to fully flesh out their characters, in all their complexity and nuance. Margaret is a fantastic character study of a young girl discovering the real world and losing her innocence for the first time ....it's messy, chaotic and all over the place, but that's how adolescence, and the transition to adulthood, often is. Another Year is a very authentic, moving portrayal of deep, lasting unfulfillment and emotional fragility. It's funny at times, uncomfortable and awkward at others, but never less than real.. and that's what we always get with Lonergan and Mike Leigh, characters that never feel like fake, written creations or mouthpieces, instead they leap off the screen as real, actual human beings, that we may as well encounter in our own, daily life. They never shy away from showing little bits of details, quirks, eccentricities or dialogue that others may consider superfluous or dispensable, which actually add so much to the whole picture. and that's a very commendable feat, not very often seen these days, in my opinion.
What do you all think?
