Refn and bankruptcy He rolled back 21 years to watch Nicholas Winding Refn’s third film, which ultimately led him to bankruptcy. Well, what can I say: from and to the author's early film. Slow, meditative, viscous.
To the work of Nicholas, I am generally neutral: the masterpiece Drive, a good Neon Demon, the philosophical Only God Will Forgive, the dull and boring Valhalla and the Cowboy from Copenhagen, the funny Bronson. Not my author, but I like his visual style and camera choreography in particular.
Taking on “Fear of X,” I was left with mixed feelings in the final credits. It seems to be a beautiful atmosphere of a detective psychological thriller, a great acting Turturro, a confusing plot, visual and event metaphors, but in the end an open ending, the absence of catharsis and even more questions about the semantic load of the work. If you evaluate and interpret everything that we have, it turns out that the movie is not about revenge or justice, although all this hinted at an hour and a half of timing. A film about finding the truth. The most calm and "not bloody speech" Refna.
John's Benefice succeeded. From and to his movies, so I respect the excellent work in the frame. Not everyone can play a middle-aged man who lives in a permanent mountain and does not always distinguish reality from “galyuns”. It was nice to see Rimara in the third place. The last time I remember it was in Death Battle 2. Operator work and installation are normal, but Refna does not reach more recent works. Yes, there is a lot of blood-red, dark, not without VHS-defects in favor of the plot and watching video from surveillance cameras, but I somehow got used to neon and acid-blue color palette Nicholas. Sound design and post-production are default.
"Fear X" is a movie that will be interesting to a narrow circle of people. If you watch it, you probably close, like me, Refn's filmography. I don't see any other reason. The work is far from being heard, and the DVD was not released further. At the same time, the entire list of disadvantages does not make this picture bad. Indeed, she is an amateur, and I think that with the release she was fifteen years late for sure. At the beginning of the “zero” one could hardly be interested in such a story of the mass audience. If you abstract, then a good experience for the sake of interest a la “So how did Refn shoot at the dawn of his filmmaking career?”
6 out of 10