tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18792030855968117322024-03-19T08:11:20.708+00:00We Don't Need Two Metaphorsthat's bad writingMatthew Evensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07937868638115373931noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879203085596811732.post-61006088200240404232019-09-08T21:55:00.000+01:002019-09-10T23:57:38.361+01:00READY OR NOT - Dir. Matt Bettinelli Olpin & Tyler Gillett<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On her wedding day, Grace (Samara Weaving) is still unsure what to make of her soon-to-be in-laws, despite her unwavering commitment to her fiancé Alex (Mark O’Brien). After the ceremony, Grace is told that for her to be truly accepted into her new family, she must play a game. The game she unwittingly chooses is hide and seek, but the variation of the game played by the Le Domas family has an unhealthy finality to it.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That’s ultimately what the <i>Ready or Not</i> is: laughs amid the tension of a very dangerous game. Samara Weaving has to shoulder the bulk of switching between the lighter and darker moments. She impressively imbues her character with a cutting wit but also the gritty determination to win the game as Grace uncovers the secrets behind the occult ritual that she has stumbled into on her wedding night.</span><br />
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</span>Matthew Evensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07937868638115373931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879203085596811732.post-1151572503497194732019-06-18T19:21:00.000+01:002019-09-08T17:29:04.033+01:00DIEGO MARADONA - Dir. Asif Kapadia<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’d say it’s rare for a football documentary to open with anything akin car chase, but that’s how Asif Kapadia elects to start his profile of legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona. However, it turns out to sit entirely in line with the crazy and breathless story that follows.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s an exhilarating opening which elicits comparisons to William Friedkin’s <i>The French Connection </i>and Claude Lelouch’s short film <i>C’etait un rendez-vous </i>but here, thanks to the accompanying 80s inspired soundtrack (Todd Terje’s Delorean Dynamite), transports the audience back to 1984 and Maradona’s arrival in Naples. He has just been signed by local football club Napoli for a then world record fee of £6.9 million and was met at the Stadio San Paulo, Napoli’s home ground, by a fervent hysteria of fans and journalists that would come to typify his eight-year spell at the Italian club.</span><br />
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Matthew Evensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07937868638115373931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879203085596811732.post-83198375901724761932019-01-05T14:36:00.000+00:002019-09-10T23:56:33.673+01:00BFI LFF 2018: ROMA - Dir. Alfonso Cuaron<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Roma </i>is set in a late 1970’s Mexico City and in the townhouse of a seemingly well to do Spanish family and their Mexican house staff. Principal maid and nanny Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) aims to ensure the smooth running of the family’s life. However, political unease in the city is growing and significant change is on the horizon much closer to home too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Gravity </i>was ultimately the story of personal survival set against the never ending canvas of space. Although its characters are securely situated on terra firma in <i>Roma</i>, Cuaron tells another deeply personal story on a grand canvas. His canvas this time is Mexico City, a city alive with the hustle and bustle of daily comings and goings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When her days off arrive and Cuaron lets Cleo and Adela, another of the family’s maids, out of the house and onto the streets of the city, Cuaron lets his camera run as free as his characters. The pair rush across street corners and past everybody else going about their daily lives. The depth of the detail and design on display for even the most fleeting of moments is astonishing. Props and set dressing that will never come into play are given as much care and concern as everything else. It’s reminiscent, in one way and this one way only, to th</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">e unique pleasures/displeasures of Alexei German’s </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Hard to be a God</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">, in which barely a second goes by without someone brandishing a particularly putrid looking vegetable in front of the camera. On Ge</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">rman’s unspecified planet, it felt arduous; in Cuaron’s Mexico City, it’s immersive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even as the film’s story takes characters out of the city and into the countryside, that immersive quality is replaced by the equally staggering natural beauty of the rural landscapes. With no score to help guide proceedings, there’s an almost complete lack of artificiality that acutely amplifies the inherent emotional stress of the more harrowing and upsetting events nearer the film’s conclusion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Knowing very little about a film before watching it opens up the possibility of giving over time to a film that thoroughly squanders it, but also the possibility of being swept up in a film with no expectations or suggestion of where it will take you. In the case of <i>Vox Lux</i>, knowing little more than the title and cast members led to being wholly unprepared for the film’s startling opening. That intense reaction is indicative of the entire experience crafted by writer and director Brady Corner. This is a film of extremes. Extreme pain and extreme joy; extreme highs and extreme lows. All presented to question and challenge the acceptable boundaries of 21st century celebrity culture.</span><br />
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Matthew Evensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07937868638115373931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879203085596811732.post-55982536814869518462018-10-16T23:06:00.002+01:002018-10-16T23:06:56.782+01:00BFI LFF 2018: HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD - Dir. Ben Wheatley<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">However as we listen in on the increasingly alcohol fuelled small talk, the personalities of these other characters are developed and we realise there's more to these characters. Wheatley cuts between two or three conversations at a time but story threads emerge and the all too recent family history becomes ever clearer. A few mentions of Brexit place the film firmly in the here and now, and there’s certainly more in the film's sub-text too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additional allusions to power struggles and allegiances perhaps explain the origins of the film's cruder working title: ‘Colin You Anus’. Shakespearean echoes can also be heard in Clint Mansell's score, used sparsely but purposefully amidst the rumbling bass of the overpowered family disco. Mansell helps to bring the film to a close with a gentle piano piece that plays over the film’s unexpectedly optimistic end credits. It’s a perfect end to a film that’s bristling with anger but with a great deal of warmth too; </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy New Year, Colin Burstead</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will go down a treat when the film airs on the BBC at the end of the year. For his seventh feature, Wheatley’s gone a bit soft on us all but in his own very sweary way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The onscreen typing and cursor movement is reflective of character’s emotions; clear and purposeful when determined, stuttered and hesitant when not. The action flows, unlike so many other films that present contemporary technology on screen, as if designed by someone who has actually used a computer. There are only a couple of occasions where screen actions feel less natural and more intended to ensure the audience is keeping up with the story. It feels intuitive, almost to the point where I was anticipating cursor movements just before they happened, akin to the experiences described by those who’ve used a ouija board and come away unsure as to whether they were leading the glass across the board or being led. <i>Searching</i>’s ouija board is the small screens we’ve come to use everyday and there’s a peculiar fascination in seeing these normally small actions blown up on the big screen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As with all films that use diegetic footage (found or otherwise), characters often end up in situations where rationale would dictate ditching the camera but can’t do so without foregoing the filming style, which can prove distracting in some cases. <i>Searching</i> neatly avoids this as its cameras are always on, even when the characters wouldn’t want or need them to be. There’s perhaps only one instance where the use of a camera is a little too far-fetched, but it’s not wholly implausible. Even as the story takes more overtly sensationalist turns, it does so to draw parallels to rightfully scrutinized cases and incidents from recent years. Found footage films often come in well under 90 minutes but even at 100 minutes, <i>Searching</i> doesn’t drag; if anything, a few extra minutes may have helped the ending, which lays out events more succinctly than necessary and unloads a great deal of plot with all the grace and subtlety of a trapdoor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fresh from a win and a multitude of plaudits at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Matt Palmer’s debut feature arrives on Netflix, lying in wait to test the nerves of any unsuspecting viewer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Expectant father Vaughn (Jack Lowden) somewhat reluctantly agrees to a hunting trip with childhood friend Marcus (Martin McCann) in northern Scotland. A night of heavy drinking in the village pub leads to devastating consequences during the following morning’s woodland hunt.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To say anymore would potentially spoil what is a straightforward but effective film, as we watch Vaughn and Marcus see out the rest of their trip. From the very beginning, there’s an uneasy dynamic between Vaughn and Marcus: they’ve known each other for 15 years, but they’re no longer as close as they once were. As the trip begins to morph into the nightmare it will become, the pair are forced into an alliance built from who they were and have been, and not who they are or will become. There’s a level of trust and Palmer exploits the shortfall throughout the pair’s nervous conversations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Similarly cautious are the close-knit community of villagers whose lives will soon be turned upside down. Palmer could’ve easily sent his travellers on the road to a Summerisle (or even a Sandford), but steers them elsewhere just before the first glimpse of any hilltop wicker working. Instead Culcarran is village that suffered during the economic downturn and hasn’t seen the investment that has enabled surrounding areas to thrive.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Again, Palmer toys with, but ultimately avoids, the familiar movie tropes of rural villages and their residents. Unofficial village spokesperson Logan (Tony Curran) is more welcoming and genuine than the stereotypical nosy pub patron but he still has a knack for keeping tabs on Vaughn and Marcus throughout their stay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tension and excitement that comes from Palmer acknowledging and defying many of our expectations isn’t quite matched when he eventually does commit to the story he’s telling. The inherent structure of the story leaves too great a gap in the build up to an inevitable turning point, and there isn’t quite enough drama to sustain it. I picked up on certain details and potential developments that weren’t taken any further – but nor did they feel like obvious red herrings intended to lead me astray. The actions of some of the thinly sketched supporting characters end up feeling more like necessities of the plot, rather than associated behaviour; others, like Kate Bracken’s Iona, are sadly relegated to bystanders as the story approaches its conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s easy to see why </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Calibre</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> was a hit with a festival audience: being able to go in with few expectations or distractions is an enviable position to hold; perhaps the early rave reviews from Edinburgh sest my expectations too high. Only time will tell if the film’s direct journey onto Netflix will prove to be a worthwhile one for all involved. I’m inclined to say that I may have enjoyed the film more if I were sat surrounded by fellow cinema patrons and not on my sofa listening out for the melodic beeps of the washing machine reaching cycle’s end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the feverishly franchise focussed Hollywood of 2018, the days of a 3-year wait between Star<i> </i>Wars movies are long gone and this fourth film in as many years arrives a fraction over 5 months after the last adventure through hyperspace. <i>Solo: A Star Wars Story</i> brings the earlier years of Han Solo to the big screen with Alden Ehrenreich stepping into the role that Harrison Ford has inhabited for 40 years, which doesn’t sound daunting at all <gulp>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Matthew Evensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07937868638115373931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1879203085596811732.post-1630354474496215492018-03-21T07:00:00.000+00:002018-03-21T08:11:53.659+00:00The Third Murder - Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>JA</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not content with producing a recent string of deceptively perceptive dramas that any director would be envious of, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has changed gear for his latest picture. <i>The Third Murder</i> (a seemingly innocuous but very deliberate title) may technically be a murder mystery but in Kore-eda’s hands, it plays as a much more unconventional take on that familiar genre: a story in which the neatly tied loose ends are thoroughly unravelled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Factory worker Misumi follows his boss down to the riverbank one evening, a hammer in hand. Once the violent blows have been dealt and the body burned, Misumi is promptly arrested and confesses to the murder. Having already served time in prison for a double murder some years ago, he’s almost certain to receive the death penalty. His defence attorney Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) begins searching for any detail or technicality that might spare his client from his fate, but soon begins to question Misumi’s apparently certain guilt.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It helps to have an actor as charismatic as Kôji Yakusho to play the disarmingly polite murderer. He remains compliant and unperturbed, even as his story changes frequently and seemingly without purpose. Yakusho’s performance is captivating and yet reveals no indication of Misumi’s exact nature, which helps to maintain the mystery through the film.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of this leaves Shigemori searching for the fundamental basis of the case from which to build a defence. “You don’t need understanding or empathy to defend a client”, he imparts confidently to his junior lawyer early in the story but Shigemori is soon left with no choice but to dig into Misumi’s history, which indirectly overlaps with his own. Fukuyama (star of Kore-eda’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like Father, Like Son</i>) impresses as the increasingly flustered Shigemori; as the story progresses, his confidence weakens and the things he takes for granted become much more malleable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s almost as if Shigemori is speaking to a different person each time he visits Misumi in prison: maybe Misumi’s a twin or triplet, or perhaps he has a split personality disorder? Kore-eda isn’t interested in this kind of reveal or parlour trick. Instead he’s concerned with a much more pertinent issue: the fallibility of the systems in place to achieve justice and the immutable nature of the punishments that can be handed down, and the immense disparity between those two things. It’s a worthy thesis but not the most effectively laid out. Kore-eda aims to recreate the uncertainty that his characters experience for his audience but it often ends up being a little too obtuse. I have enough faith in Kore-eda as a filmmaker to know that this story was leading somewhere interesting, but I felt that Kore-eda didn’t quite guide me there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Much like Trier’s 2011 film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oslo, August 31st</i>, Thelma is a story driven by its central character’s loneliness. She’s naturally shy and, like so many people in their first few weeks of university, she allows the fear of missing out to take hold. She sees others making fast friends amidst the rush of being away from home for the first time and feels only more alone, but she also lacks the hindsight to know that some aren’t suited to the forced socialising of these early times and most eventually find their own crowd.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As libraries go, the New York Public Library with its 209 branches is a million miles away from the stuffy village sites that would spring to my mind. Wiseman takes his camera to many of the locations found on the streets, corners and in the suburbs of the continuously unfurling city. He’s there simply to observe how people use the facilities available to them and how the management work to continually provide their patrons with the means to live, learn and connect with the wider world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I never understood the appeal of the slew of ‘slow tv’ programmes (inspired by similar projects in Scandinavia), such as the two hour sleigh ride in Norway, 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle or a bus ride through North Yorkshire dales. Wiseman’s documentary style has more in common with these unedited snapshots (his film about London’s National Gallery nominally kicked off BBC 4’s ‘slow tv’ season) than the more traditional collection of talking heads, but the way he cuts around his observational snapshots gives each one a clear meaning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He sometimes captures just a few minutes of lectures and talks on topics ranging from the enslavement of clerics in 17<sup>th</sup> century to the prominence of Jewish delicatessens in early 20<sup>th</sup> century New York, but there’s always a coherent and salient idea to be garnered. <i>Ex Libris</i> is a film for the people watchers out there and inherent proof that simply watching people writing, typing, reading and listening can be captivating. Across the music performances, poetry recitals and author talks, Wiseman captures the faces – some more attentive than others – of the diverse range of people in the audience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now here’s that rarest of things, a film you never knew you wanted: a high-school exam heist thriller. Whilst Hollywood faces continuous accusations of lacking ideas, Thailand has delivered <i>Bad </i>Genius: an inventive and thrilling caper that has already wowed audiences on home soil and across much of southeast Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keen to settle in quickly at her new school, Lynn (newcomer Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying) begins to tutor her new friend Grace (Eisaya Hosuwan). Tutoring quickly turns to cheating and as Grace’s grades improve, more of Lynn’s classmates want her to provide the answers to their exams, and they’re willing to pay good money for her help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just like all good heist movies present a way for the audience to sympathise with thieves and crooks, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bad Genius</i> establishes some important context early on to keep us just on the side of these cheats and con artists. Whilst Lynn may be exploiting the divide between the knowledgeable and the unintelligent, it’s the gulf in wealth that gradually becomes more prevalent during the film. The perceptive commentary on how access to educational opportunities and affluence can often go hand in hand is never sanctimonious, but it’s impossible to miss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second feature film from Vivian Qu, who also produced the rather excellent <i>Black Coal, Thin Ice</i> a few years back; that fact and a synopsis that suggests "a complex tale of blackmail and corruption" puts <i>Angels Wear White</i> on my list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's it for part 1. Click <a href="http://wedontneedtwometaphors.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/bfi-london-film-festival-2017-preview.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> for part 2, in which I pick out some more highlights from the themed strands that make up the remainder of the programme.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Accompanying these announcements are choruses of exasperated sighs, pages of disgruntled tweets and cries of “Is nothing sacred?” from movie goers who are growing increasingly frustrated with the repetitive nature of the films making their way to cinemas from Tinseltown.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hollywood’s propensity for sequels and the like is nothing new, but there has been a noticeable change in the last year or so with studios becoming more aggressive (or perhaps desperate) in their pursuit of that lucrative pay day. Fox has reportedly invested a whopping $900 million in James Cameron’s three Avatar sequels. Before the first film had made its way into cinemas, Warner Bros. announced that <i>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</i> would be the first of five new films in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why the sudden rush? The answer perhaps lies in box office numbers.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve collated lifetime worldwide box office grosses for 294 films: the top 7 grossing films from each of the 6 big Hollywood studios (Buena Vista – distributor for Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros.) and their subsidiaries in each of the last 7 years (2010-2016). 7 x 6 x 7 = 294. In addition to the grosses, I’ve included the ranking of each film in its corresponding yearly worldwide chart. For example, <i>Deadpool </i>grossed $783,112,979 and was the 9th highest grossing film of 2016.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One quick caveat: I am judging a film's success solely on its box office performance, which doesn't consider either the budget of the film or the studio's cut of the film's takings (which varies from territory to territory). Therefore, this analysis can't consider true profitability, but works on the basic principle that the higher grossing films made more money for the studios, either through the box office or other secondary avenues (merchandise, games etc), than the lower grossing films.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I devised a universal scoring system that would allow me to more easily compare the performances of the studios across different years and with different numbers of films under consideration from each studio. I assigned 42 scores, one for each of the 6 studios in each of the 7 years, based on the box office grosses and global rankings of all 294 films (i.e. the top 7 films from each studio in each year). A score was assigned based on the total global box office and the total global rankings. The best performance received a score of 1 and the other 41 performances received scores between 0 and 1 that correlated to how well they performed against the best performance.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I then produced a 2nd set of 42 scores in the same manner, that considered only the top 6 films from each studio in each year; then a 3rd that considered only the top 5 films and so on. I produced 7 sets of scores in total (each one considering fewer films than the last), with the 7th set only considering the top 1 film from each studio in each year. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The two billion dollar hits of 2010, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Toy Story 3</i><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Alice in Wonderland</i></span><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">, gave Buena Vista a significant advantage of the others to begin with, but their performance was brought more in line with the other studios when looking beyond those two big hits. Warner Bros. performed well thanks to the penultimate </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Harry Potter</i><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> film and Christopher Nolan’s </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Inception</i><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. In 2010, Paramount was the distributor for both the Marvel studios and DreamWorks Animation films and so the likes of </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shrek Forever After</i><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> and </span><i style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Iron Man 2</i></span><span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> saw them perform well too. All studios ultimately end up with a score of under 0.5 with 7 films.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The final <i>Harry Potter</i> film brought in over $1.3 billion to put Warner Bros. way ahead when considering just the top film from each studio, but with major support coming only from The <i>Hangover Part II</i> and <i>Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows</i>, Paramount’s strength in depth saw them perform best in this year, thanks to <i>Transformers: Dark of the Moon</i>, <i>Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol</i> and a pair of films from both Marvel and DreamWorks Animation.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The finale, which can be boiled down to 6 words: Chris escapes and kills the family, is effectively handled by Peele but feels ordinary in a film that was anything but for so much of its running time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Structurally, <i>Get Ou</i>t operates in a manner similar to Edgar Wright's <i>The World's End</i>. In both the character/characters experience a particular feeling connected to the situation that they have been placed into. That feeling is explored in the subtext of a story that utilises a classic genre and an outlandish twist. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And yet in <i>The World’s End</i>, the main turning point is somewhere closer to the middle of the film, leaving more time for the story to explore the new situation. This is particularly evident in the trailer for <i>Get Out</i>, which has to feature so much of the final 20 minutes of the film to suggest how the story will escalate but also leaves the film with too few surprises (of similar impact of those earlier in the film) to deliver that final knockout blow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One late night conversation with his mother (Kiki Kilin) gracefully drifts from sad musings on her mortality to quietly humorous as she realises she had inadvertently said something quite philosophical and proceeds to search for a pen to write it down for Ryota’s next novel, but it’s clear Ryota is in no danger of forgetting what she said. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her great insight was not so much the answer to the meaning of life but rather to search for meaning in life. It brought to mind a line from David Simon’s <i>The Wire</i>:</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> “A life… you know what this is? It’s the s*** that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pablo Larraín’s latest film is, in strictest terms, a biopic of Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda, but that description belies the film and its approach to capturing a person’s life on film. Larraín has enjoyed a steady rise to prominence and acclaim across the world and with <i>Neruda</i> he has developed his capabilities even further to deliver an enigmatic and at times breathtaking challenge to the conventional biopic.</span></div>
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