One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while at the behest of my most British friend Amy
One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while at the behest of my most British friend Amy
So promising because the acting is really commendable on some parts but it can’t be saved from the derivative writing. Fits so neatly into the crime thriller genre tone of the time and attempts to make a film that relies so heavily on the audience to make it interesting themselves by filling in the details in reference to real life crimes, which came across strange to me. I feel a little sleazy after watching this
Omar Sharif being in love with that beast for four hours -
‘You love him”
“No, I fear him”
“Then why do you weep?”
“If I fear him, who love him, how must he fear himself who hates himself?”
This vs the remake is my ultimate litmus test for seeing and receiving art - the story was not boring, you were bored by the story.
The newer version for me remains a closed loop - all ends merge together- creating something that is complete, self sufficient, stand-alone, and isolated, presented to the viewer as a totality. The closing of all ends means untimely death of a fable which should otherwise linger and stick. My thoughts on this are obviously…