Room With A View
Mar. 30th, 2002 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryantNot a masterpiece by any means, but I liked it. I've been stressed enough recently so that it was kind of hard letting myself slide into the movie at the beginning. The kind of hyperkinetic camerawork made it harder. I'm not sure what was served by the artificial long shots, particularly since it was pretty clear they were spliced together by CGI. (After all, real steadycams don't go through the handle of a coffeepot.) That really lessens the impact of the long shot, y'know?
So I spent about the first half an hour engrossed in nitpicks like unto the above. However, Jodie Foster is as always Jodie Foster. One review of this I read complained about the fact that the character's claustrophobia is mentioned once and then forgotten. Said reviewer has, apparently, forgotten what good and subtle acting looks like. Foster plays that particular issue to a T, and you never forget that she's holding in her fear for the sake of her child. The rest of her acting is on a par.
Jared Leto was weak. Dwight Yoakum and Forest Whitaker were great, though, which pretty much made up for it. Solid direction, well-written. One unfortunate cliched image at the end, and a couple of places where logic took a back seat to the necessities of the plot. But on the whole, very satisfying.
So I spent about the first half an hour engrossed in nitpicks like unto the above. However, Jodie Foster is as always Jodie Foster. One review of this I read complained about the fact that the character's claustrophobia is mentioned once and then forgotten. Said reviewer has, apparently, forgotten what good and subtle acting looks like. Foster plays that particular issue to a T, and you never forget that she's holding in her fear for the sake of her child. The rest of her acting is on a par.
Jared Leto was weak. Dwight Yoakum and Forest Whitaker were great, though, which pretty much made up for it. Solid direction, well-written. One unfortunate cliched image at the end, and a couple of places where logic took a back seat to the necessities of the plot. But on the whole, very satisfying.
