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That should be enough to put Thor off...
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Jan 4, 2018 - 11:13 AM
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joan hue
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My husband and I watched this movie yesterday. I think there is a reason it didn’t last in any theaters in 2016.
If you watch the trailer, you’ll see the only bit of action throughout the whole movie which was a soldier running. That takes place in the first two minutes.
I love Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson. They play their roles in a very understated fashion. I think the director should have let them add a bit more drama to their roles. Seems like the whole movie is very understated and almost too calm. The story is an important story, but about half way through the movie, my husband said, “This is too slow, and I’m bored.” I was bored too, but we finished the movie. IMO, the movie had an important and true story to tell, but it filmed it in a very slow, boring manner, and it certainly didn’t utilize the power of its two main actors.
The music barely registered with me.
(Just my two cents.)
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It's a film about what a single, 'ordinary', everyman can do against overwhelming odds, just by doing the little he can. It should have no more action than everyday lives have. Everyone demands action nowadays. What sort of action could it be? Vicarious scenes of Nazi bloodbaths? Would that be less boring? Do we demand that? If so, eventually society will itself, in real life, need this. Actually, looking around at what's happening .....
As such, it's not an action movie. And it feels artistically like a German movie in fact, just as HHhH does. Stylistically it's good therefore.
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The novel it's based on, EVERY MAN DIES ALONE, is one of my favorites. Sadly the film didn't work for me at all. The book is a sprawling epic, it should have been turned into a 10-hour miniseries at least. Trying to compress such a complicated plot into just 90 mins was a hopeless venture. One of the most powerful aspects of the book is that it doesn't just follow Thompson and Gleeson's characters, it also follows EVERY single person who picks up one of their cards, and shows how every one of their lives is destroyed by the Nazi authorities, in various ways, from their having come into contact with the cards, as if they're a contagion. When you see that, the cop's guilty realization and choice at the end makes FAR more sense.
I started a thread for this film when it came out last year, but the search engine here is... not the bast.
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=118465&forumID=1&archive=0
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Maybe because the title sounds so depressing
Would HOME ALONE IN BERLIN have made for a cheerier title?
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Why no CD release of this wonderful score? and the movie is good too and based upon a true story in Nazi Germany in WW2.......but with no action as such todays cinema audience would fall asleep within a matter of minutes regardless of how good a film is .....without lots of killings and people flying thru the air backwards or forwards and loads and loads of special effects blasting away at you giving you a wonderful headache good films and acting such as in Alone in Berlin will be long forgotten and ignored......
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Jan 5, 2018 - 8:00 AM
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Ado
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I have not seen this one, but it makes me think of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which has almost no action at all, is well written, well acted and directed, is pretty serious as you might suspect. It is a terrific film. Good James Horner score. But sometimes pretty hard to watch. I suspect almost no one has watched it.
That film has its issues, but the score is my most personal, alltime favourite Horner score. If that's the comparison we're making, I might be interested in this after all -- despite Desplat.
alright, you have me curious Thor. I am not saying that film is perfect, but I like it.
What are the issues with it?
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