Plato said, “He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, with the belief that skill alone is enough, will remain a shoemaker, and his arrogant poetry will be eclipsed by the songs of maniacs.”
Chuck Palanique.
Diary.
No molasses. No mercifulness. No sugar and caramel. Very interesting ... captured in a single ball of touchingness and a bright dramatic process - melodrama. The film is divided into two parts. The first, saturated, sunny, bright, the second - colder, icy, refined. Breathtaking – the sound of Dustin O, Halloran and Volker Bertelmann breathes a separate vitality, the brilliant camera work of master Greg Fraser is stunning in scale and range (all here in the piggy bank – and field shootings of India and close-ups of the faces of the main characters). And the magnificent Dev Patel and the unique Nicole Kidman, who plays the adoptive mother (she herself appears to the eye as a foster mother and gives herself the role without a trace). Artistic design tools give a head start to any film about the modern problem of mankind - the abduction of children. Especially in India. But to my taste, the first hour is more completely global, then slips in the second half - parochial moments. But due to the final titles, the situation is leveled. There is a Terrence Malick style here in this contemplation, in my opinion.
Leonid Filatov The tears of people
- Are you saying that people’s tears are water? Yeah. Do all cataclysms pass for you without a trace? Yeah. - Christ, Robespierre, Che Guevara is a labuda for you? Yeah. Do you not care if someone is in trouble? Yeah. Do you care if there are cities burning? Yeah. And the pain of Vietnam never touched you? Yeah. Does your conscience bother you sometimes? - Yeah. But do you manage to moderate it without difficulty? Yeah. What if you destroyed your family home? - Right. Have you been brutally treated by your family members? - And? Did you get a bullet in your chest? - Terrible! Would you have said yes to me then? Nope! Do you think tears are human water? Nope! Do all cataclysms pass for you without a trace? Nope! Does something bother you sometimes? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very good movie. Watched with dad, mom, husband and eldest son. Everybody got in. I recommend it. 🤝