I love Ewan McGregor and I like Eva Green. For that reason alone, I should have liked this movie. And it was good. Great acting, nice editing, a deeply emotional soundtrack, an intense feeling of loss and discovery. But I didn't. I had the same feeling as with von Trier's Melancholia: what is the point in showing a bunch of people feeling all kinds of stuff, if there is nothing anybody can do?
Now, that I think about it, there were always movies like this in cinema, about people caught in a situation and feeling something profound. Only now though, when science fiction and fantasy are a lot more mainstream, do we get the scenarios where something global happens, like an epidemic or something destroying the planet. The main idea is the same, though, and just as lacking satisfaction for people like me, who want to see themselves in the characters and actually be able to change something.
Bottom line: my wife liked the movie, she resonated with the deep feelings evoked in the film; I saw no point in watching some folks doing nothing but floating in the current until they crashed, doing nothing but admiring the water and feeling alive for some reason. If you liked Melancholia, you will probably like this one as well.
Now, that I think about it, there were always movies like this in cinema, about people caught in a situation and feeling something profound. Only now though, when science fiction and fantasy are a lot more mainstream, do we get the scenarios where something global happens, like an epidemic or something destroying the planet. The main idea is the same, though, and just as lacking satisfaction for people like me, who want to see themselves in the characters and actually be able to change something.
Bottom line: my wife liked the movie, she resonated with the deep feelings evoked in the film; I saw no point in watching some folks doing nothing but floating in the current until they crashed, doing nothing but admiring the water and feeling alive for some reason. If you liked Melancholia, you will probably like this one as well.