Things To Come review
Jun. 21st, 2007 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearDave has been raving about Things To Come for quite some time, and we have an extended quote from it framed in our hallway, so I was intrigued to watch it at long last.
I remain intrigued, because I'm not really sure what to say about it. The structure was weird, in that it jumped forward in time significantly several times, and it was difficult to get attached to any of the characters because none of them got much development and several weren't even named.
The first couple of sections were quite upsetting, but they were also the ones where the characters remained quite nebulous - war was very effectively portrayed as both a faceless horror and the purveyor of individual tragedy.
The later sections presented very well the dichotomy of human nature - the thirst for progress versus the desire for things to remain the same. The inspirational message of Cabal's speech at the end (the one that's on our wall) was such that it couldn't even be detracted from by his ridiculous shorts and shoulder pads combo - which just goes to show how very good an orator he was...
I wasn't sure about the film at all when it reached its conclusion, but I've been thinking about it a lot today, so it obviously had some kind of impact on me. And it's provided me with a new quote I hope to get use out of:
"The universe or nothingness - which shall it be, Passworthy?"
I remain intrigued, because I'm not really sure what to say about it. The structure was weird, in that it jumped forward in time significantly several times, and it was difficult to get attached to any of the characters because none of them got much development and several weren't even named.
The first couple of sections were quite upsetting, but they were also the ones where the characters remained quite nebulous - war was very effectively portrayed as both a faceless horror and the purveyor of individual tragedy.
The later sections presented very well the dichotomy of human nature - the thirst for progress versus the desire for things to remain the same. The inspirational message of Cabal's speech at the end (the one that's on our wall) was such that it couldn't even be detracted from by his ridiculous shorts and shoulder pads combo - which just goes to show how very good an orator he was...
I wasn't sure about the film at all when it reached its conclusion, but I've been thinking about it a lot today, so it obviously had some kind of impact on me. And it's provided me with a new quote I hope to get use out of:
"The universe or nothingness - which shall it be, Passworthy?"
