Yeah DITD pretty much tore a page out of Oliver
Stone's book so far as the camera work was concerned.
What with all the Bjork flappery going on, just
thought I'd weigh in on the movie.
I too, saw it on the small screen, which given the
direction & editing, actually seemed more appropriate.
I guess for lack of a better term, I'll borrow one
from Garrison Keillor and call it the "Dark Lutheran"
musical ... complete with it's Kafka-esque cliches &
the requisite doses of Marxist political subtext.
As for the musical numbers themselves, I found them
all quite interesting ... especially the way the
rhythm beds spring very organically from industrial
machines, trains passing by, the scratching of the
courtroom artists' charcoal on the sketch pad, etc. I
was wondering about half-way through if a cover of
"Smokin" might be included! ;-)
Now the artist herself. I guess Bjork was believeable
to the extent that ... who else are you going to cast
in that part? Cyndi Lauper could have pulled it off I
guess, as could have Tracy Ullman (sp?) -- both from
an acting & singing standpoint ... but it wouldn't
have been the same without the signature Bjork
"schtick" -- which is, in the end, all it really is,
folks.
C+ to B- overall ... certainly nothing that, at least
in my opinion, merits the vehement knicker-twisting of
this weekend's list traffic.
Don Rowe
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