"To suffer binds you to something higher than yourself, higher than your own will.
It takes you from the world to find what's beyond it"
No matter how often I watch this, I still notice so many details and layers behind of this dreamlike opus.
Along with Mann's Miami Vice just THE masterpiece of 21st century digital filmmaking, existing in a gaze that completely bypasses all borders between memory and present, vision and reality, profane and profound, creating a work…
Oh my God, it's full of stars....
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There have been so many movies that people "want to show an alien race to remind them of who we as humans once were" but it seems like the Forrest Gump-guy, in a late style avant garde-attack, has finally made a film that is specifically designed for said theoretical concept.
Which is not to say that HERE captures something profoundly human, except maybe the heartfelt desire of art to literally frame the world, but rather that the film, with its…
Just wow. While you could throw in some terms to classify Miami Vice by now (“Mood Piece” for example), here Mann goes much further as Public Enemies will remain to be its very own beast as there still is absolutely nothing like it. Shooting a period piece about John Dillinger in hazy digital grain is a ludicrous idea through which Mann creates compositions somewhere between Dogma 95 manifesto, Brechtian stage-play, and expressionist paintings. In Mann’s late-stage career’s exploration of surveillance…
JakobCJ liked Nikolas’s review of Here
JakobCJ liked Neil Bahadur’s review of Juror #2
JakobCJ liked teo’s review of Juror #2
JakobCJ liked Adam Nayman’s review of Wicked
JakobCJ liked MoritzOnMars’s review of Barry Lyndon
