Painting, drawing, films, stories, travel and other odds and ends
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Memory loss affects an insurance investigator.
He attempts to trace his actions, making use of a Polaroid camera
Unusual film, a sot of Noir, with many provocative ideas about experience, identity and responsibility.
It is elegantly filmed by Christopher Nolan and beautifully acted by Guy Pierce.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer works on the Manhattan Project in the desert, seeking to develop an Atomic Bomb.
Is his team infiltrated by Soviet Agents? The Un-American Activities Committee investigates.
Cillian Murphy and the rest of the cast are excellent. The dramatisation of events is very effective. The camerawork is striking, often beautiful.
However, the film is too kind to Soviet Communists sympathisers and is overlong. Concision is a virtue in art.
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The tribulations of Odysseus as he returns by sea with his crew and fellow warriors from the Trojan Wars to reunite with his, anxious wife, Penelope.
There are some striking set pieces, particularly featuring the Cyclops Circe, and the Sirens.
It can be hard to follow the plot, though the long running time passes without longeurs.
The moronically obvious soundtrack consists largely of loud drums: boom! boom! boom! as if created for the hard of hearing.
Anne Hathaway is disgrace as Penelope, grimacing all the time. The rest of the cast are unmemorable except for creepy, clunky Eliot Page.
In short: competent standard-issue macho cinema, with zero subtlety, which has generated more interest than it merits.
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