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Author Topic: Everything Is Illuminated Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-10-2005 08:40 PM                     Elijah Wood must be single-handedly saving saving the trend of EMO glasses... And thank god, because I swear I can't find any around anywhere! There's certainly an eye on style in this film. Every gritty, lush, stark image of Ukraine is laid out here, somewhat dimy, too... a beginner's style, yet still classy move for virgin director Liev Schreiber. There's nothing really wrong with the way anything is done in this film. It's like a bizarro Bottle Rocket really, with Wood strangely playing the role of the backseat driver. His whole plight with finding the pre-war village of his grandfather takes second stage to a runaway breakout for Eugene Hutz, and a story that gets painfully deeper til the ending. An interesting Piece to settle on for a year and figure out how to apply the kind of creativity in this adaptation to an original story. Landmark's Edina 4 #1 Front-Surround At least torn masking is fairly common within ten miles of Minneapolis proper  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-12-2005 08:10 PM                        I thought it was a bit of a yawner myself. Not a "bad" film, but not one that really engaged me, either. The main character seemed to be written "wrong" somehow. I don't know how to articulate what I'm trying to say, but the individual "pieces" that make up this film just didn't "fit" right as a whole.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-14-2005 04:19 PM                        I expected more from this movie for some reason. I guess I was hoping Frodo(Elijah Wood) could really carry this movie better. Its almost like he plays the same roles or something.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-15-2005 03:40 PM                        Agreed with Jen. Somehow I don't think that "Frodo" was the right choice for the role.  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 10-25-2005 01:04 PM                        I dug it. 3.75/5  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-01-2006 02:10 PM                     Nobody has said what this story is about. It's about a young American Jew, who goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather from the nazis. There he meets his translator, a young Ukrainian who speaks only poor English but likes Michael Jackson, and his driver, the translator's grandfather, who wears dark glasses, and says he is blind I really liked this one; we ran the trailer for two weeks, which is unusual we normally only run them the week before the film arrives. It looked interesting, so I went to see it, with two people from work. Combining Nazi, war, lost history type events with comedy doesn't always work, but I think it does in this case. I found that my very limited knowledge of Russian was just about enough for me to understand much of the film without having to read the subtitles. I don't really like subtitles, better than a dubbed film, but i'd much rather be able to understand what's being said directly. Who on Earth are those weirdos (Gogol Bordello) that sing the 'Start Wearing Purple' song at the end, and also provide some of the other music in the film? I read something that described them as being like a cross between a gypsy wedding band and the Sex Pistols! The video for 'Start Wearing Purple' really is very odd. I can't find the site I downloaded it from now, but there's a, not very good, copy of it here I've just bought the DVD, which contains several deleted scenes; in most cases I think they needed to be deleted, they really don't work.  |  IP: Logged

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