It's funny because my first reaction when my sister insisted I watch The Lives of Others was: I don't want to watch a film about the East German secret police. It's only going to be a train wreck.
And you know... it was. But it wasn't. It was stunning -- I thought it must have been a stage play at one point, it had that level of focused character intimacy to me.
I also like straight action films, but there's a certain type of violence that I really don't enjoy, even if in theory the film is otherwise safe.
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Date: 2010-07-15 09:39 pm (UTC)And you know... it was. But it wasn't. It was stunning -- I thought it must have been a stage play at one point, it had that level of focused character intimacy to me.
I also like straight action films, but there's a certain type of violence that I really don't enjoy, even if in theory the film is otherwise safe.