Something that bothers me


While the movie is good but what bothers me is that everyone looks sick and pasty as if death is immanent. Does that bother anyone else?

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I see what you're saying, but I think it's just a stylistic choice. Not only is it winter so people tend to look more pale and cold they seem to have infused the film with an Orton kind of effect, if that makes any damn bit of sense. This kind of glowy, soft-lensed type of look. It's often a photography filter to make things look a bit more dreamy, if you will. So perhaps that's playing a part in what you're seeing as well.

It didn't really bother me though. It's just another thing to kind of go with the gloomy, somber tone of it all.

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Do a google search on 1960's Greenwich Village and select the images tab. The look of the time was pretty well captured.

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^^Yeah, thats what i thinking, they were trying to capture the look of the time/people. So many movies just film the 40's-60's in the same way modern stories would be filmed. People DID look drab and sickly in that time and place

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