Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Red Light Bandit

This film is weird. I immediately dislike films that think themselves as intellectual films. Look at us arent we clever for messing around with linear storytelling. The answer is no. Probably the best film we watched was Sao Paulo because it was a mans journey and the frustration that surronds him and how he is unable to deal with it. That was a film. Whereas here the director attempts way too much instead of actually just letting the performances or linearility of the piece speak for themselves. The main annoying part is that these types of experimental films are fundamentally flawed. If youre goal is to reach as wide an audience as possible and to inspire change, then you need to be as straight forward as humanely possible. Maybe at the time this piece excited people because this was a real guy who stuck two fingers up at the establishment but I really cant think of anything good about this film.

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Blogger antoin.coll@gmail.com said...

Okay so my thoughts on this film have been challenged so i am defending myself as to why i wrote what i did, more clearly. The major point about this style of filmamking is that no it doesnt have to be linear and pointed out to make a film but if Red light Bandits intention was to inspire change then it failed. It was done at a time of desolation and oppression so on that level i congratulate but if its aims were to inspire a nation it just did not work. If you rationally think it out imagine a poor guy in Rio at this time, going to the cinema to see a movie about the infamous Red Light Bandit. This guy like a large percentage of the world will not understand this film and leave early. Its easy for us as filmmakers to say this film was fantastic because we studied German new wave and French Neo Realism but i know if i would have paid money to see Red Light id be annoyed. And to defend my notion of linearility, this is the way filmmakers should go to inspire change. While the film may borrow from neo realism, people actually interested by this film will be intellectual types wanting a social change. So it renders its call for the man on the streets to get involved kind of pointless. doesnt belong in movie theatres. Thats what i think so if anyone else has anything to say i will gladly explain more o fmy viewpoint.

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