It's like showing someone
the last frame of a movie; from that one still, there's no way to unpack the rest of the film.
From her last moments of peace in District to
the last frame of movie, everything that happens in Catching Fire is about that journey.
Not exact matches
The
movie was shot in the two - perf Techniscope format, meaning each
frame of camera negative has only half the resolution
of a CinemaScope (i.e., four - perf)
frame, and this 1080p (MPEG - 4 / AVC) transfer, letterboxed to 2.35:1, seems to capture every
last bit
of visual information.
By the way, the
last shot
of «High Sierra,» with Ida Lupino walking toward the camera,
framed by the mountains and the sky, is one
of the great
last moments in film noir and in all Hollywood
movies.
There would be no
movie,
of course, without an actor the stature
of Brendan Gleeson, who's stubbornly, messily alive, carrying Calvary from first
frame to its almost -
last.
This is, from first
frame to
last, a fully realized work
of action cinema, a
movie as visually arresting as it is emotionally stirring, one that could only be appreciated, in terms
of its visual accomplishment, on a big screen.