directed by: Denis Villeneuve
written by: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green + Philip K. Dick (book)
starring: Ryan Gosling, Sylvia Hoeks, Ana de Armas
seen on 11th October, 2017
I will have to watch it again some time to find out if I can replicate the feeling of watching it in well-souding cinema hall. (And sadly also in 3D which I found out to be completely useless, I'm not a child to need reminding that things in the front are in the front, and that those in the back are in the back, but that has nothing to do with the quality of the film itself.) I liked it a lot during this cinema visit, a lot more that I liked the original Blade Runner (which to me is a poster child for a "meh" movie). I found Blade Runner 2049 to be the perfect combination of intellectual and commercial entertainment.
In "Arrival" I was bothered by the naive and foreseeable story about relationships between characters that do not have enough time to develop themselves naturally. The story here is as "empty" as possible, sometimes to the point that I was forgetting what were we actually following along with the character(s), but, oh boy, did I like watching it and listening to it, and, let's face it, feel a bit of that existential loneliness.
The main thing that bothered me here was Jared Leto, he is at that point in his career where he only shows off for the camera without trying to give his characters some kind of inner consistency. Sylvia Hoeks was indeed diabolical and yeah, there were more proper female than male characters. I guess it's a rising trend and as long as it makes sense like it does here it makes me happy. But I will have to watch it again to find out if the good feeling wasn't just some kind of weird cinema hallucination.
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