| Last Days ok, another reason to hail To Die For as the only Van Sant movie. That movie was so great an ORIGINAL and innovative, using compleltely different genres(interview, documentary, drama) and weaving them together. And Kidman, amazing as usual.
Now back to this dreadful movie. I couldn't see it all but I saw the last half of it on tv, fell asleep and can hardly remember it.
I only remember two things about it. First is the scene where Blake plays a song on his accoustic guitar, and it was beautiful.
And the second thing is, that I discovered why I hate movies like Last Days, and it's that they cheat themselves out, I don't know how to say it but they make you aware you are watching a movie and they always feel unnatural.
It happened in the scene where Blake is running from some guys and he plunges in the ground and the camera gets stuck in the air, staring blankly at plants.
The camera is meant to be your eye, and your eye doesn't work that way. You don't stare at an open space for a good who knows how many minutes without blinking. I'ts impossible and when youm see this in a movie itĄ's utterly uncomfortable and makes you aware that there was a camera there with a crew, it's just lame. I don't know if that's the point to this pointless frames but I think it's lame.
I liked when his soul left his body, that was beautiful but that's it. Uggh, another director I'm completely over with.
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