hab mir den nochmal angeguckt und muss feststellen, dass ralph wenn er im auto sitzt und die kamera schön frontal draufhält, er aussieht wie amon
Bauer Martinez is behind Land of the Blind and The Groomsman, which both premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will street on DVD in August and October, respectively.
Ralph Fiennes is one of the best actors now on the screen. His performances in Sunshine and The End of the Affair and The Constant Gardener were delights. But since his breakthrough appearance in Schindler's List in 1993, he has appeared in a very mixed lot of twenty-three films. The list includes money jobs, on which comment would be ridiculous. The much more puzzling question is about the dubious serious films in which he has appeared. One such was Onegin, a dull and soggy version of Pushkin's poem. Another puzzle is his latest, Land of the Blind.
A debut feature written and directed by Robert Edwards, who spent six and a half years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, Land of the Blind is a political film about the evils of both fascism and Maoism, shown here--to whose surprise?--as closely akin in their views of individual freedom. To Edwards's credit, the familiarity of the picture's political lesson does not obscure some accomplishments. Other than a weakness for intense close-ups--and for such a crude visual metaphor as trampling elephants--Edwards directs adequately. The production design by Mark Larkin is cleverly chilling in the inquisitorial chambers, and Emmanuel Kadosh knows how to light those settings for his camera.
But that screenplay! Donald Sutherland's role, for instance, though more interesting than Fiennes's, is still only a mechanism. Sutherland, no ordinary actor himself, agreed to do the film possibly because his career is flecked with roles that must have amused him privately. Here he plays a freethinking playwright who has long been imprisoned for his dissident views, is now long-haired and bearded, and, though often beaten by his guards, is immovably anti the present state. (The country where the film takes place is never named.) He quotes Shakespeare and Yeats as proof of his quality and resolve. Fiennes, one of the prison guards, has a secret sympathy for Sutherland but accepts the situation and consoles himself with his wife and imminent child. A revolution takes place--the script is not crystal-clear about the way it happens--and Sutherland, sprung from his cell, shoots the puerile dictator and his wife in the middle of a connubial sex frolic. Fiennes then becomes adjunct to him, and is increasingly disappointed as Sutherland, despite Shakespeare and Yeats, merely replaces the dictator with leftist tyranny. This metamorphosis is pat: it fits Edwards's scheme rather than Sutherland's character.
The dialogue creaks, all the more so since we know better than it does what it is going to say. The plot is simply pushed around to keep the film moving and to underscore its heavy-handed purpose. I think that near the end, some twenty years later, Fiennes's daughter, now grown, is a government agent, but that's just a guess. One idea in the script amuses: the first dictator makes action films, which are terrible. Otherwise the only matter that interests is the question of Fiennes's presence in this political lesson for children. (Just cut the sex scenes.)
Stanley Kauffmann is The New Republic's film critic. 11.07.06
Otherwise the only matter that interests is the question of Fiennes's presence in this political lesson for children. (Just cut the sex scenes.)
AmonFan hat geschrieben:Otherwise the only matter that interests is the question of Fiennes's presence in this political lesson for children. (Just cut the sex scenes.)
wie darf ich das verstehen??? also sind die geilen sex scenen jetzt in "DIESEM" film oder in einem anderen von seinen filmen die sie ja nun auch zu gerne als schlecht bezeichnen und wenn in diesem film....sind sie dann drin oder nicht??? und die andere frage warum sollten kinder jetzt ein problem mit ralph bekommen wegen seiner rolle???? ich habe gerade überhaupt keinen durchblick!!!
Annabel hat folgendes geschrieben:
Ok. mich überzeugt der Film LOB auch nicht ganz
kann man davon ausgehen, dass du den film schon gesehen hast?
Mitglieder in diesem Forum: 0 Mitglieder und 14 Gäste