Mercredi 16 mars 2011

A Dream of Demons

This film has been thoroughly trashed by most of the critics. Yet the majority of the audience polls were shown to be positive. Brian Helgeland wrote it, produced it, and directed it. As a director, he has a short track record rife with innovation; as in his film A KNIGHT'S TALE. I feel that he is a promising artist who is still searching for his cinematic groove. His writing has been criticized as muddled and sophomoric.supernatural box setYet this man wrote the screenplays for MYSTIC RIVER and L.A.CONFIDENTIAL. The fact that he had cast three of his principal actors, Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossaman, & Mark Addy from A KNIGHT'S TALE has been panned. Yet this methodology of artistic trust was never questioned when it was practiced by John Ford, Clint Eastwood, or Akira Kurosawa.

The cinematography by Nicola Pecorini is drenched in shadow and shafts of sunlight peeking through slits in crumbling mortar. It is a dark vision, but it never feels claustophobic. Pecorini, a camera operator for over twenty years, helped to pioneer the steadicam. This may be the first time he functioned as the head lenser. Oddly, I feel that I am standing almost alone on a hilltop, when I declare that I liked this movie.

Heath Ledger, as Alex Bernier, the young rogue priest, does a fine job of blending a tenacious faith with a rebellious spirit. He is treated by the Catholic Church as an eccentric pariah. After all he preached in Latin, and always had his back to the congregation; part of his consciousness securily rooted in medieval mysticism. His mentor, father/brother Dominic, played by Francesco Carnecutt, had died mysteriously in Rome, and the Church had labeled it a suicide. Ledger was recruited by powerful American Cardinal ( Peter Weller, as Driscoll, who specializes in off-beat roles ), to travel to Rome and to seek out the truth of Dominic's death.

Ledger gathers his team together. He is joined first by Shannyn Sossaman, as the gorgous tragic painter Mara Sinclair. Her role as Magdalene to his rogue rabbi is sometimes hard to comprehend. Perhaps part of the exposition had to be edited out. She loves a man who "can not love me back.". She apparently fell in love with him after she tried to kill him. Alex had performed an exorcism on her brother, criminal minds box set and in a chaotic frenzy, she lost control and attacked him. This cost her a year's incarceration in a mental institution. She emerged clear-eyed, and ready to martyr herself for love. She seemed to be a bit psychic as well. She felt that something "terrible" was going to happen to Alex, and she wanted to be with him. It must have been interesting for this actress to construct a backstory for this character. In the film, she became available for Alex's seduction and carnal transcendence into actual manhood; and then she was sacrificed like a beautiful dove, forcing Alex to accept his fate.

Soon, Ledger is joined by his sole compeer, Mark Addy as father Thomas Garrett. They are the last remnants of their Caroligian Order. They have been trained as demon hunters and exorcists. We see a few lame encounters with demons. The effects are unspectacular, and the conflicts remain muddled and peripheral. Addy attacks his role with verve, energy, and Irish charm; but his character is never fully developed.

In the prologue we were introduced to Benno Furmann as the Sin Eater, the "Other". This plot twist is clever. The Sin Eater is a renegade entity that can offer, for a price, last moment absolution and forgiveness, a guaranteed path to paradise, outside of the Church's jurisdiction. The metaphysical task of devouring sins seems to create immortality. Benno, as William Eden, had existed for more than 500 years, and now it was time for him to pass on the mantle. Alex Bernier had been chosen as his successor from infancy. Every person, every circumstance in Alex's life was placed in his path by Eden. Benno's piercing calmness and intellect belie his dark powers. Was he good or evil, or trapped between them ? Is what he performed a service, a farce, or a sacrifice ?

There is a manic subplot regarding a murderous religious coven that operated in the catacombs. They murdered priests, and they infleunced papal politics. Our discovery that the sons of anarchy season 3 dvd natty Cardinal Driscoll, a candidate for Pope, was the grand wizer of this band of zealous thugs, was yet another loose thread in the fabric of the patchwork plot. But Weller, too, had to accept the responsibility of his actions. When he was betrayed, exiled, disgraced, excommunicated, and facing death, he summoned Bernier. Alex, who had accepted his role as the latest "Other", came to him. There was a Marat Sade suicide scene, and we witnessed the Sin Eater refusing to accommodate the Cardinal; thus damning him, and forcing him to embrace the demons waiting for him in the darkness.

I was left, in the final flickers of this film, angry at the behemoth bureacracy that appeared to be the Catholic Church ( a symbol of all the secret societies and mammoth corporations that wield the power of this world ), and a vague sensation that I had experienced a unique vision of man's journey.

Par shenglijiaoam - 0 commentaire(s)le 16 mars 2011

Like Watching the Slow Death; See "The Exorcist" Instead

Three stars of Brian Helgeland-directed "A Knight's Tale" come back -- Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, and Shannyn Sossamon -- in this religious thriller. I wanted to see again the lovely Ms. Sossamon (whose role is not big here), but what I saw turned out a (literally)the tudors dvd set painfully bad film that could have killed her career so easily.

The alternate title of the film was "The Sin Eater" which would be more appropriate for the occasion. Heath Ledger's character, Alex, investigates the mysterious death of the master of his order, and he comes to realise there is a man hiding behind -- Eden, or "the Sin Eater" played by German Benno Furmann ("The Princess and the Warrior"). As Alex and his trusted friend Thomas (Mark Addy) delves the murky case, we know there is a conspiracy behind the thick curtain of ncis dvd set the church.

You see also Ms. Sossamon as Alex's love interest, and Peter Weller as one of the possible successor to the Pope.

It is clear that director Helgeland researched several things about the Catholic church, to make the basis of the film. However, everything is too slow and tedious to grab our attention -- the initial death of the mentor, which should be more grisly or shocking, happens behind the closed door so we are not scared nor interested in it at all. Moreover, the film's script is not effective. Though Shannyn Sossamon and Mark Addy in particlar have no substantial function in the film, they continue showing up over and over again, only to confuse everything.

Worse is the bland acting, and all the actors are guilty of making the film insipid, especially Heath Ledger whose emotionally detached portrayal of Alex is too off-putting for us. And the photography by Nicola Pecorini (famous for Dario Argento films) is also too dark when at night, which does not help, except inducing us to sleep (which I married with children dvd box set did).

But the worst is the idea of using CGIs in this kind of occult films, in which delicately expressed character and carefully handled atmosphere play the vital part in creating the scares. When special effects appear in this film, we know that this is money-enhanced effctes, and that idea on our side instantly kills the potentials of the film. Send them a copy of "The Exorcist" and have them watch 100 times.

Par shenglijiaoam - 0 commentaire(s)le 16 mars 2011

beware the whiny sin eaters

Heath Ledger(10 Things I Hate About You and dexter dvd set A Knight's Tale) plays a preist who with Mark Addy( A Knight's Tale and A Full Monty) and a bunch of other priests back in the day formed The Order ( a group of ass kicking priests who rid the world from the sin eaters)are on the case.when Dominic, one of their members, dies, Ledger, Addy and Shaynnen Sossoman (A Knights Tale and 40 Days and 40 Nights). Ledger preformed an exorcism on Sossoman in the past and she tried to kill him and cold case dvd box set she went to jail. She got out and is hiding from the police. So these wisecraking team go of to try to stop Willam Eden (Benno Furmann, not a bad actor) he's this almighty sin eater. So he plays tricks with Ledger, like mind humping him and killing Sossoman. Ledger with boozed Addy goes to a church and Ledger kills Eden, Eden dies and passes the trait onto Ledger, blah, blah, blah. This is what you'd expect from the Director of Payback and A Knight's Tale (Brian Helgeland). This is one that Ledger shouldnt of done. some little house on the prairie dvd set good acting from Ledger in some spots but theres really no edge to care about him or his friends. also starring Peter Weller (Screamers and RoboCop)
Par shenglijiaoam - 0 commentaire(s)le 16 mars 2011

This movie makes church seem like a roller coaster ride

The screenwrtier poorly attempted to re-create the "Exorcist" . But put in some blah-blah love story that makes you sick instead of keepig you engaged. There is no substance whatsoever in this entire film. It had the potential of being something special the unit dvd but blows it by showing a bunch of people yack about things nobody cares about. Extremely boring, I wanted to leave the theater when I saw this but the dumb movie tickets were expensive so I had to withstand the dreary torture which felt like it lasted forever. Nothing on screen connected relevance back to the whatever the characters were talking about.

They use computer graphics in here that instead of wowing me, just ruined the movie even more. Some people say this movie did horrible in the movie theaters because of how "thought-provoking" and "slow-paced-without-action-because it's an intelligent film" it was. What is so intelligent or thought provokling when the story is basically about pretty boy Heat Ledger that's a priest who has a love interest and disobeys his religion? Oh and there's some mumbo jumbo about thetrue blood dvd  "sin-eater" (movie was originally going to be titled "sin-eater"). Lame concept but the movie took the "sin-eater" thing too seriously, making the movie become pathetic and delusional about how dark and intelligent it was. Yeah, I know there were really sin-eaters in the medievel times but this movie just makes it sound cheesy.

Nothing in the movie was executed right and I forget why I even bothered to see this movie. If you want smart horror films watch, Psyho, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, Exorcist, Omen, deadwood dvds or any of the Romero "Dead Trilogy" films. But if you want mind-numbingly boring horror, watch the Order. This movie makes church seem like a roller coaster ride.

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