Brotherhood of the Wolf

[beccaelizabeth]

Now that is a film worth seeing.
And owning. Which is why my brother already had two copies when someone bought it for him for christmas, hence the particularly successful present swap.
I should probably, you know, buy him presents, at some point.

ANYways

This film had the visuals - landscapes that made me want to pause it and go 'oooooh, my TV rules!', castles, and *clothes*... or selective lack of clothes managed in a fairly artistic way. I mean, lots of naked people around, yes, but always for an effect that adds to the story, not one that could be taken out and have the same story.

And what a story! Told you exactly what it was going to do and then managed to surprise and be satisfying when it did it.

And the way it used the fight scenes was *gorgeous*. Each one was a story in and of itself, and they add together to a larger narrative, and while the moves were spectacular they also said stuff about characters and what they were doing and why they were doing it and stuff. Now that is what a fight is about.

Same with the sex scenes.

And the way it looked at bodies was fascinating. There were almost as many dead bodies as live ones, felt like, and they all got respect.

I watched it in foreign with the subtitles on, and I only had to rewind once to catch what they were saying. No, not in a naked bit, rather when I realised I knew that necklace and where to buy it. I'm detail oriented.

The DVD wanted to be in English. I find this irritating. If they made it in foreign I want to see it that way. Not like reading it is any hardship.

I read a review on imdb that calls it horror, and that seemed weird to me, though I couldn't tell you what I'd call it instead. There's a huge great monster and everything.
Though it has moments of weird, it uses them real carefully, to enhance a human story.
It felt more like the way the costumes were big and the reds really red, you know? Just... extra.

I'm going to watch it again in a bit when it's had time to settle in my head. There's lots of cool going on and I'll see it better seeing it over again.


Also there's moments like one with her from Matrix sequels and the bladed fan. That's just very, very pretty. You know, for a messy death.


... yeah, I'm a bit strange ...



So: Good film. Glad I own it. Would have actually paid money for it even.

Comments

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing previews for this and being quite entranced by them...BUT: how scary is this film on a scale of 1 - 10?

*would love to see it except for the IS HUGE WUSS factor*

[beccaelizabeth]

possibly not the best person to ask. I mean, Daleks give me nightmares, and Countrycide, and Fear Her (for the monster in the closet), and the scary factor of those three have absolutely nothing in common.

With this film... There's a big bitey monster. And a lot of bad humans. And some dead bodies. Very dead. And some getting dead. And... mostly I was watching it like it was about fighting, not scary. But it might be scary to people not me.

[laligin.livejournal.com]

I saw this a while ago, in many pieces, in French, with subtitles.

The staff-fighting made me drool. ^_^' And it was slightly confusing watching it in bits (and rewatching parts, and skipping other bits) over about a month. But it was still good.

Though occasionally slightly... icky. Because I'm not so good with rended flesh and suchlike. (Countrycide icked me out in places too...) But still.