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Mise-en-scéne! Horrifying, Beautiful, Heart-Breaking, Despair, Hopeful, its all there.
I definitely wasn’t in the right head space to watch this movie the first time as a kid, or mature enough to appreciate its themes. Having a better idea what I was getting myself into I decided to watch it again a decade later.
I’m overwhelmed by how much this subverted my expectations. From the opening shot I was hooked and dragged through this journey of a film. The cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki immerses you into this despairing world you really don’t want to be in, yet you’re gonna have to deal with it like everyone else. Long-tracking shots have been over used in some films, often to impress and can come across as gimmicky and distracting. Here it used to perfection, trapping you in the same scenarios the characters are in with no escape, particularly Clive Owen’s Theo who serves as our eyes into this bleak, hopeless world. I felt every emotion while watching this film, and nearly cried from the shear awe of everything on the screen. Nothing is fluff, or not well-thought out when it comes to what is shown. Every little detail you catch when you let your eyes wander to the background or that side-table over there, or that run down building, provides subtext that grounds you in this world. A world that simultaneously feels lived-in and empty at the same time.
Alfonso Cuarón expertly and artfully directs this masterpiece that keeps you on the edge of your seat never knowing what’s going to happen next. There’s so much more to say, but I’m not going to be able to say it as well as some others have already done. Go Watch This Movie.
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