Monday, January 19, 2009
SUNK
Today and yesterday's NYTimes 1176 Best Film was James Cameron's
This is a fully successful movie-movie.
It is very satisfying from a technical and artistic viewpoint. I quit watching for what imagery was and was not faked. It is just flawless in this respect.
The story is almost but not quite over the top melodrama. A perfect mix of villainy and near sainthood.
I mentioned DiCaprio's perfect casting. Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart as Rose are a perfect match. All the others including Billy Zane and Bill Paxton do a great job supporting the main story.
I think it is very difficult to make a film about such a well known story but Cameron pulls it off. Some of the scenes are breathtaking. Even the frozen floating dead after the wreck.
If you believe in the infallibility of science and rational problem solving you should take a good cold dunk in the waters of this film. Any fantasies about the integrity of capitalism would also be dashed.
I wouldn't mind seeing it again. It had been ten years and so I forgot a bit of it. It was fresh again. Maybe 2018!
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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