Not exact matches
... The
film may offer no verdict about the coach but there's plenty of another kind of judgment
here, captured vividly
in the recurrent images of football
violence.
As expected, Django Unchained is brutal, remarkably so, with copious amounts of splattery
violence splashing across the screen - to be honest I'm surprised the
film got away with an MA rating
here in Australia.
The focus
here is on
film style and the way the mundane is represented stylistically
in both
films, but also on the «gradual dissociation of action and meaning» (p. 57) which renders the sudden outbursts of
violence illegible.
It's rare to describe a
film that is rooted
in horrific
violence as «charming,» but
here we are.
Here's a brand new photo featuring Robert Pattinson
in the upcoming
film «Cosmopolis» directed by David Cronenberg (A History of
Violence, Crash).
The
violence shown
here exceeds that
in Heineman's previous
film, Cartel Land, about the Mexican drug wars.
What Sightseers gets right where Seven Psychopaths (out today and reviewed
here) gets it wrong is that this
film does not try to admonish itself for including
violence, and incidentally is much less indulgent
in the
violence, along with having a much more coherent plot with better direction, writing, acting, and presumably better catering too.
Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve's bleak, taut thriller Sicario is one of the best
films of the year (read my full review
here), but it presents a stark and candid portrait of the U.S.'s response to
violence with more
violence, specifically
in the case of the War on Drugs.
The problem
here is that the
violence doesn't even serve the story all that much, making it seem like the only reason the
film was made was to go all - out for these sequences
in an attempt to make the audience uncomfortable.
While the
film is clearly on Sands» side, the strike was ultimately futile since, although then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher eventually conceded some points, Ireland remains a bitterly divided island to this day, nine other men also committed suicide via starving themselves, and hatred between the Northern Protestants and Southern Catholics continues unabated, with lulls
in the
violence,
here and there.
The
film's ever - increasing
violence hits much harder
here than it did
in Peckinpah's earlier The Wild Bunch.
While children may not get as much out of it as teens and adults will, there at least isn't gratuitous
violence, profanity, or nudity on display
here (three checkpoints many action
films try to deliver
in spades).
Whilst I wouldn't say the
film feels «censored»
in the same way that King Arthur was, the
violence is clearly very carefully edited so as to get the
film an M rating
here in Australia.
Now we know we're giving some comic book
films, like Road to Perdition, American Splendor, Ghost World and a A History of
Violence the short shrift
here, but we wanted to focus
in on the type of
film we cover the most.
Yet this as much a
film about eco-terrorism as Meek's Cutoff was a
film about the American gold rush, operating as a rich, sui generic parable for any and all acts of
violence, whether micro scale such as the one chronicled
here, or those sanctioned by governments with a view to being executed
in foreign climes.