SymphonicX
25-Jan-2008, 08:21 PM
Can anyone make sense of this??
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Well the review sums it up very well. ravishing. The songs are absolutely good and the scenes capture the ambiance of average middle class life. This movie simply marvelous, unfortunately the ugly DVD transfer makes it a pain to watch. Firstly, for me, this movie was a great 70s nostalgia trip: the old BEST Double-Deckers, the bell-bottoms, Amol Palekars' glasses, Jehangir Art Gallery, and Samovar. To those who say it isn't groundbreaking cinema: Again, what were you expecting, but very poor quality DVD? Whatever was served, was enough.
Secondly, the nostalgia was not in stark B & W of Romero's origin in the 50s, but in glorious Color, which brings out even the shiny, worn flagstones on the footpath in a unique, fresh, perspective, a unique shade of gray that only color could do. All this to say that my youth was re-lived, real-life.
Thirdly, the protagonists: Young, Fresh-Faced, Natural, Lovely, Naive, in love- yet shy enough to express it, and how they get together, it was all so simple, and the contrast is yet so apparent when compared to todays' Hollywood Kitsch.
Fourthly, to realize that Nostalgia dies with the death of a Generation; How the zombie elders have their own deep memories of an age that would have been ancient for the protagonists themselves! I never realised then, but right now, I'm old(er) and the young 'uns cannot 'get it' when I'm nostalgic.
Fifthly, This movie is about zombies, and the spirit of zombies, and kudos to Romero for his glorious efforts.
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I reckon this is someone taking the complete p*ss and has never seen a zombie movie...!!!
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Well the review sums it up very well. ravishing. The songs are absolutely good and the scenes capture the ambiance of average middle class life. This movie simply marvelous, unfortunately the ugly DVD transfer makes it a pain to watch. Firstly, for me, this movie was a great 70s nostalgia trip: the old BEST Double-Deckers, the bell-bottoms, Amol Palekars' glasses, Jehangir Art Gallery, and Samovar. To those who say it isn't groundbreaking cinema: Again, what were you expecting, but very poor quality DVD? Whatever was served, was enough.
Secondly, the nostalgia was not in stark B & W of Romero's origin in the 50s, but in glorious Color, which brings out even the shiny, worn flagstones on the footpath in a unique, fresh, perspective, a unique shade of gray that only color could do. All this to say that my youth was re-lived, real-life.
Thirdly, the protagonists: Young, Fresh-Faced, Natural, Lovely, Naive, in love- yet shy enough to express it, and how they get together, it was all so simple, and the contrast is yet so apparent when compared to todays' Hollywood Kitsch.
Fourthly, to realize that Nostalgia dies with the death of a Generation; How the zombie elders have their own deep memories of an age that would have been ancient for the protagonists themselves! I never realised then, but right now, I'm old(er) and the young 'uns cannot 'get it' when I'm nostalgic.
Fifthly, This movie is about zombies, and the spirit of zombies, and kudos to Romero for his glorious efforts.
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I reckon this is someone taking the complete p*ss and has never seen a zombie movie...!!!