Post by punksnotdead on Nov 14, 2014 12:36:37 GMT -5
Has anyone checked this out yet? I was going to mention it in the Recently Watched thread but I kind of wanted to get other people's reactions on the film. I watched it on Netflix yesterday and I've been thinking about it ever since.
Firstly, it's an allegory from car-to-car on the train. I don't think any of the themes are ground breaking but I think the level of metaphor you're supposed to pick up on is sensational. Chris Evans was pretty damn amazing in it, and it just has all these tones and all this symbolism that I really loved. It's the kind of movie I need to watch over again to really kind of grasp the entire vision.
I think if you try to view this as a straight up action/science fiction film that you're probably not going to view it as something all that great but if you kind of let yourself buy into the deliberateness of everything that is going on, and the sensationalism of what each train car is trying to depict, I think you can look at this film as a modern cult classic. I haven't really felt this way about a movie of this kind since Equilibrium. Which, don't get me wrong, it's an entirely different animal than Equilibrium but it left me with that feeling of a bigger identity to a film. It's fantastical and it lends itself to some predictability, somewhat on purpose it seems, but I think it makes you ask all the right questions.
Anyway, I didn't know if anyone else had a chance to see it yet? I would love to hear some thoughts on it. It's hard for me to find movies nowadays that get my brain going because I've seen so much stuff, and usually just revert back to stuff I know I like, but this was just one of those flicks that I thought looked like a cool way to burn 2 hours and it turned out being more than that for me.
Firstly, it's an allegory from car-to-car on the train. I don't think any of the themes are ground breaking but I think the level of metaphor you're supposed to pick up on is sensational. Chris Evans was pretty damn amazing in it, and it just has all these tones and all this symbolism that I really loved. It's the kind of movie I need to watch over again to really kind of grasp the entire vision.
I think if you try to view this as a straight up action/science fiction film that you're probably not going to view it as something all that great but if you kind of let yourself buy into the deliberateness of everything that is going on, and the sensationalism of what each train car is trying to depict, I think you can look at this film as a modern cult classic. I haven't really felt this way about a movie of this kind since Equilibrium. Which, don't get me wrong, it's an entirely different animal than Equilibrium but it left me with that feeling of a bigger identity to a film. It's fantastical and it lends itself to some predictability, somewhat on purpose it seems, but I think it makes you ask all the right questions.
Anyway, I didn't know if anyone else had a chance to see it yet? I would love to hear some thoughts on it. It's hard for me to find movies nowadays that get my brain going because I've seen so much stuff, and usually just revert back to stuff I know I like, but this was just one of those flicks that I thought looked like a cool way to burn 2 hours and it turned out being more than that for me.