Three Colors - Blue: Crash Course Film Criticism #11
Movies are really good at making us feel. Happy, sad, excited, etc... Part of that is because they use so many different types of media all at once. Photography, music, performance, and editing...
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Films can do a great job of taking us inside the minds of characters. Martin Scorsese burrows into the warped psyche of Robert De Niro’s vigilante in Taxi Driver. In Safe, director Todd Haynes asks us to see the world through the eyes of Julianne Moore’s suburban housewife, who may or may not be going crazy. And, of course, David Fincher’s Fight Club fractures a character’s mind so deeply that by the end we have to re-evaluate everything we’ve seen. In 1993, the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski released a film that explores the mental and emotional experience of a woman grieving her husband and young daughter. It’s heavy material, but the filmmaking remains lyrical, expressive, and humane. So let’s take a closer look at Krzy...
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Films can do a great job of taking us inside the minds of characters. Martin Scorsese burrows into the warped psyche of Robert De Niro’s vigilante in Taxi Driver. In Safe, director Todd Haynes asks us to see the world through the eyes of Julianne Moore’s suburban housewife, who may or may not be going crazy. And, of course, David Fincher’s Fight Club fractures a character’s mind so deeply that by the end we have to re-evaluate everything we’ve seen. In 1993, the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski released a film that explores the mental and emotional experience of a woman grieving her husband and young daughter. It’s heavy material, but the filmmaking remains lyrical, expressive, and humane. So let’s take a closer look at Krzy...
