tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15193298.post112899135928802483..comments2024-01-02T23:07:56.666+00:00Comments on mainlymovies: More? I'd had quite enough, thankstim rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11893294970751318226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15193298.post-1129187160006979262005-10-13T08:06:00.000+01:002005-10-13T08:06:00.000+01:00I couldn't tell you. It's been agony watching peop...I couldn't tell you. It's been agony watching people contort their critiques of this to turn it into a "personal" project for Polanski - <I>The Pianist II</I> essentially. I just don't see it. Deprivation and rootlessness are obviously themes in the book, but he just reiterates them here rather than looking at them in a fresh or particularly emotive light. And, perhaps with half an eye on a family audience, the movie misses most of its chances for wicked gallows humour and real rot or squalor. It just ends up being bleak in a bland way, or bland in a bleak way. I'd much rather watch <I>The Ninth Gate</I>!tim rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893294970751318226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15193298.post-1129179220811339142005-10-13T05:53:00.000+01:002005-10-13T05:53:00.000+01:00I was sort of excited about this, but now that see...I was sort of excited about this, but now that seems like a distant memory. Why would Polanski go to so much trouble if he had nothing invested in the material? And more than that, why did anyone finance it?NicksFlickPickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04607501848596529493noreply@blogger.com