Zoe

Colin Farrell being left on read for two hours. I don’t even know why i found this so funny because it’s actually incredibly sad. It’s one of those films where everyone is miserable but somehow you can’t stop watching. The island is gorgeous, the donkey deserved better than literally everyone else, and every conversation somehow got more unhinged than the last. Took half a star off because i needed at least one person in this film to make a sensible decision. Apparently that was too much to ask.

Unfortunately, I watched this on a file my media teacher sent me, which I’m sure he pirated as the quality was horrible, literally like they recorded it on a Motorola. Of which I’m also sure he cropped out the inappropriate bits, so this may not be a dead-on, factual response to the film. I have seen loads of others speak on Pattinson’s performance and how astounding it is when I would personally say that this brought him down a lot to more of a ‘Twilight’ level. From someone who has watched both films and does take a liking to both, both performances did give off a sort of ‘corny’ element to it. Which I guess was still pretty fit for Batman in its own. I STILL LOVE HIM DONT GET ME WRONG! However, I absolutely loved Zoe Kravitz and Paul Dano. Both of them certainly stood out to me and portrayed both their characters in a transformative immersion, or even a perfectly natural, grounded connection to their characters. I REALLY did love the fight scenes though, as someone who finds they get boring and over exaggerated a lot, these fights scenes were very enjoyable!!

This is where i feel i was born in the wrong generation, as i yearn to be able to watch this in the cinema back in the 1930s. This film was absolutely immaculate for the continuous performance era of cinema, being able to pick any point in this film, sitting down and just enjoying it from wherever it starts. With older films it is particularly hard to actually ENJOY the film, easy to appreciate it of course but they never really pick up that thrill and enjoyment the average attention span needs nowadays. Although for older films it would be have been ‘unseen’ and ‘one of a kind’ fitting nicely with its limitations or the struggle for a variety. Although, Chaplin, without knowing created an absolutely timeless piece of film that I have found particularly riveting that steals the spotlight from other black and white films, keeping the audience entertained at all times. What a brilliant start to a long generational road of cinema.