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Luce
Jun 5, 2019 14:43:02 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Jun 5, 2019 14:43:02 GMT
Looks sublime.
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Luce
Jun 9, 2019 19:48:11 GMT
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Post by forca84 on Jun 9, 2019 19:48:11 GMT
Only watched like a minute of the trailer and stopped. Looks like it might be interesting.
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Luce
Aug 3, 2019 18:12:23 GMT
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Post by Nora on Aug 3, 2019 18:12:23 GMT
Only watched like a minute of the trailer and stopped. Looks like it might be interesting. made a good choice the trailer spoilt too much
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Luce
Aug 3, 2019 18:17:31 GMT
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Post by Nora on Aug 3, 2019 18:17:31 GMT
Soo... I think I didnt get it. The movie. I wonder if white people in general can easily understand this movie. To me it can easily go both ways, as being about stereotypes and how bad it is to stereotype people but also being an anti diversity cautionary tale somehow oddly Confirming the stereotypes. Would appreciate a view of someone else who saw it.
Its well made and Octavia Spencer really shines here and easily outacts everybody around her (except of Tim Roth) but to me the message was very mixed and overtly political but I wonder if its meant to be that way. Like nothing is black or white eberybodys morals is mixed/faulty etc)
I would love to hear from others how they understood the movie.
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Post by Nora on Aug 4, 2019 5:46:33 GMT
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Luce
Aug 5, 2019 3:20:55 GMT
Post by hi224 on Aug 5, 2019 3:20:55 GMT
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Luce
Aug 18, 2019 18:37:06 GMT
Post by moviemanjackson on Aug 18, 2019 18:37:06 GMT
Honestly it may be my favorite movie of 2019 to this point. But some of its themes may resonate with me more as an individual than others.
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Luce
Aug 19, 2019 2:50:51 GMT
Post by hi224 on Aug 19, 2019 2:50:51 GMT
Honestly it may be my favorite movie of 2019 to this point. But some of its themes may resonate with me more as an individual than others. id love to actually hear more from you.
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Luce
Sept 14, 2019 7:09:18 GMT
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Sept 14, 2019 7:09:18 GMT
Soo... I think I didnt get it. The movie. I wonder if white people in general can easily understand this movie. To me it can easily go both ways, as being about stereotypes and how bad it is to stereotype people but also being an anti diversity cautionary tale somehow oddly Confirming the stereotypes. Would appreciate a view of someone else who saw it. Its well made and Octavia Spencer really shines here and easily outacts everybody around her (except of Tim Roth) but to me the message was very mixed and overtly political but I wonder if its meant to be that way. Like nothing is black or white eberybodys morals is mixed/faulty etc) I would love to hear from others how they understood the movie. My perspective is similar. I viewed the film on Thursday and consider it "decent"—a definite mixed bag. The filmmakers adapted the script from a play, and the adaptation is very problematic. After viewing the movie, one can see it working as a play, but as a film it feels too obviously provocative and contrived. Luce seeks to keep the audience guessing and to stress the ambiguity of the characters. Normally, those qualities work in movies, but not if one feels like the filmmakers are pulling your strings—that they are keeping you guessing just for the sake of keeping you guessing, and rendering the characters ambiguous and antiheroic just to be provocative and make the viewer uncertain. That obviousness—that sense of feeling the gears shift self-consciously—can be effective on stage, but a movie generally needs to be more organic. The result is that Luce is manipulative and tries to fulfill too many agendas at once. It seeks to be a psychodrama, a suspense thriller, and also a form of social and racial commentary. Consequently, the film feels muddled and compromised, not fulfilling its potential in any of those areas. The (somewhat) saving grace is that while the filmmakers struggle to adapt the screenplay from the stage, they do film Luce in a cinematic style, ironically using space within the frame to create a sense of intrigue, curiosity, and uncertainty. There are some effective subjective shots, and the filmmakers offer an appropriate sense of location and moody weather. These technical and cinematic smarts prevent Luce from becoming a disaster. Unfortunately, the filmmakers' ability to translate a play to a screenplay proves clunky at best. The material—involving racial stereotypes, sexual assault rumors, and immigrant hopes or fears—is certainly timely and potentially rich. But Luce's potent ideas come across shabbily and cheaply, as if the filmmakers wanted to merge these concerns with a Fatal Attraction sensibility.
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