I HATE SHAKY NO TRI POD SHAKY CAMERA MOVIES . THEY SUCK AND GIVE ME A HEADACHE. WITH ALL THOSE ACTORS IN IT COULDN'T THEY AFFORD TRI PODS. THAT CONCEPT NEVER WORKED FOR MOVIES ONLY WITH PEOPLE WITH CAMCORDERS. NOW THAT KIND OF CRAP IS NORMAL.
shareI kind of liked the movie though because of Kristin's character I hate life like she did... Someone needs to make a real real movie about depression... Like 50000 hours long cause I could star in it and show my life 24/7 it's nothing but loneliness and depression and agoraphobia. And make feel the audience feel the insides of our kind. I haven't seen a movie yet like that. Non stop hell.
shareWorst part of this movie. You'd think this director would be smart enough to know that human vision can correct for shakiness in the image sent to our brains. A shaky camera doesn't make us feel like we are "there" despite what the directors insist. If I was "there" with the characters, everything wouldn't be shaking. My brain is capable of stabilizing what my eyes see, even when I'm moving (even running).
Only amateurs use shaky camera. It's a shame to see Lars resort to such amateur tactics.
I'm guessing this is the first Lars von Trier film you've seen.
“If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.”
Totally agree! My pet peeve in an otherwise brilliant movie. It took me three attempts to watch it. I couldn't get through it in one go simply and purely BECAUSE of the shaky cam work. It was unnecessary.
There are some instances where it can add dimension to a scene...but just a scene at a time, not the entire movie all the way through. I ended up taking Tylenol for this headache I got because my eyes were bugging out.
Hate it. HATE it. Big time. I can handle the brief moments in Jason Bourne for example, as that filming technique is critical to the fight scenes. But the entire movie isn't filmed like that.
In Melancholia, he also kept people half in frame, half out, partly in and out of focus, changing the angle and view.
I'm used to him messing with visuals (like he warped the visuals on the edges in Antichrist, but again, not all the time, it was scene/moment/character specific).
So yep, three attempts, only being able to watch about 45 minutes or so at a time and having to come back another day for another segment. For a movie I thoroughly enjoyed, it was ruined by the filmography.
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I hate it also. I almost quit watching it for that reason.
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