Sunday, May 26, 2013
TIGER TIGER BURNING BRIGHT
Today's film was Ang Lee's
A kid, a shipwreck with animals on board, a boy on a boat.
I suppose everyone has heard about this film.
There is a lot going on here and some of it gets in the way. The religious quest stuff is a bit ponderous when what we have is a good "lost at sea" yarn, a shipwreck and survival.
That the survivors are a boy and a tiger makes this different. A buddy movie it is not. The tiger is the real thing. Well, all digital, but a wild animal.
I have to admit that the special effects are so good that I bought into it.
I could have done with some of the yakking around the story.
There is a lot of stuff early on about the law of the jungle and who eats who. Hyenas get a bad rap.
Great execution and it plays pretty well on the smaller screen even though it is obviously built for the big big 3D view.
Ang Lee almost always surprises and this is no exception.
I would give it a 3 on plot and story and a 4 for the cinematography out of Netflix5. Some beautiful stuff comes through.
The experience is similar to the feature length cartoons of yesteryear. We cannot escape admiring the technology which takes us out of the drama. Creates a distance.
But everything in film is a construct so I am quibbling.
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