12 Monkeys

19 November 2024

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A very ninety comedy thriller with Willis. I’m not very old, it looks very naive today. This is not the Fifth Element or even the first Die Hards.

The story of time travel and the terrible virus that drove people under the ground is written very weakly, and the constant jumps in tone from a disaster film to a romantic comedy do not correct the situation.

The only advantage of the film is the feeling of some warmth and comfort from viewing, caused more by nostalgia and the voices of the actors of the dubbing, rather than the merits of the picture itself.

To look once for the atmosphere is worth, otherwise, except for a few funny jokes about the psychiatric hospital and ambiguous, well-shot, ringed ending in this film there is nothing.

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02 March 2024

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The 1995 film “12 Monkeys” directed by Terry Gilliam is not only high-quality fiction without modern computer prodigy and pseudo-physical delights, but also just a very high-quality film (especially camera work) that makes us think. Bruce Willis is always great, and Brad Pitt got his first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. I thought it was better than Fight Club. This topic (about a bunch of dashing anarchists - animal defenders "12 monkeys", the storyline in the film about which, on the one hand, is secondary - tertiary, on the other - fundamental, since ... in short, you just need to look ...) was used by Sergei Mikhalok with his "Lyapis Trubetsky". The film is a kind of hodgepodge of psychedelics, philosophy and the notorious "Cassandra Complex". A little bit about love. .

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21 October 2023

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I love Terry Gilliam’s films, although it would seem that he often shoots in a genre that I am not particularly fond of – fantastic, so I watched a lot of his films. But somehow all the time out of my sight fell quite a famous film “12 monkeys” / Twelve Monkeys, 1995, which he shot on the basis of the short film Chris Marker “Runway”, 1962. I watched it and the film was very interesting.
In the utopian world of 2030, humanity has almost all died out due to some virus, the epidemic of which began in 1996, there are only 1% of the population living underground, and there are no people on the surface, only wild animals walk freely there. A handful of scientists try to figure out how this terrible epidemic started and send a volunteer to find out in order to try to stop the process. This time it's the prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis), if he's lucky, he could be pardoned. But the first time there is a mistake and he falls into 1990, where he is, of course, declared insane and sent to a mental hospital, where he meets a young psychiatrist Katherine Reilly (Madeline Stowe), who, of course, does not believe in his story, as well as a young psychotic Jeffrey Koins (Brad Pitt). But those who sent him follow him and bring him back, and the matter does not end there, and a second and third attempt is made, in which he continues to contact Katherine. In the end, it turns out who actually carried this virus around the world, and it is not an army of young psychotic 12 Monkeys, but we will never know if we can stop it this time. The action takes place in the past, then in the future, the main character sometimes begins to doubt whether what is happening is his fantasy, he enjoys life in this past, which appears in his memory only in the form of childhood memories, but most likely not. Currently, the film on this topic looks quite relevant and does not inspire much optimism.

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05 October 2023

15 May 2023