The painted veil, has and is a terrific fresh. new materials towards block buststers. it may be not all action, all packed. infact its all too slow moving. but its the type of show that you truely wish the ending never comes. The scenes are gorgeous. To sidetrack, i noticed edward norton's shows always adds a different feeling that strays from the ordinary storyline. Fight club was damn goood. esp the ending. It slightly followed the secret window where edward's character found out he was insane all along. however. the twist wassnt that obvious and it definitely got me hoooked the the song "where is my mind" by Placebo
Back to t he painted veil. as usual a stunning performance by Mr Norton *gushes*. but you cant help but feel a tinge of hate towards naomi's character in the beginning.Unlike the usual shows which start off with a big bang, by introducing the fictional characters, maybe with one of them flying around with a piece of mechanical tool called the motorcycle,
this started off. slow. akward.definitely SILENT.with every slight movement exaggerated(though not in tht slowmotion jump thing). pin pointing the main relationship of the show. then comes the flash backs. The visual effects were . absent. but. the settings made up for that, also the ending was good.
THe part tht really pissed me off was well apart fomr the fact that the show ended, was we didnt konw whose child it was, welll apart form the fact tht the child did kindda look liek edward norton. but.. i mean im still not sure . haha. also. WHY DID HE DIE *here's ur spoiler" why!!!! i really really liked him. oh well. the only people would have aftermath feelings towards the show would probably be, when they feel sad or a sense of dissapointment towards their favourite character. LIke how a walk to remember got its hits!, and many that follow, the fastest most effective way to get viewer votes would be to kill the character! BUT STILL. dmna he was goood!
To contrast, where (expectedly) the painted veil lacked in visual effects, but made up in plot, sweeny tood lacked in plot but HANDS DOWN MADE UP IN VISUAL EFFECTS. I CANNO begin the describe the underlying theme, the beauty, the contradicting wonder in art brought forth all in one stark motion picture. Although predictable. the visual the motion picture. was good. The blood to begin with was suitable for all ages (Atleast above 12) as it did not look real as to make the scene gory and SAW like. howeve it did telll a story. how the blood showed revenge and as it splashed burst in colours it enhanced the rage the anger the hate. Notice how the blood flowed straight down. neat. yet less elaborated, when "todd" sliced his wife's neck, although not knowing it was his wife, it was a way to make looking at what his hatred has done more bearable. By that i mean, the audiences of the less crude mind would probably shun away from each kill, but this kill however, the directors need the eyes to be on her death, to protray the story, how revenge has gotten the best out of him. My favourite scene was during the day dream. the beach to the wedding scene. tot he peir. i really really love the scene at the peir. This was the most ingenious contrast. First the facial expression of sweeny opened the gate was towards glooomy stark essence, to such a bright peer, somewhat joyous scemen. making it eerily contradictory to the whole setting. and how the passer bys wear whit only to contrast the innocence that the girl in red did not have. This being a possible symbol of her guilty passion. which in the ending is revealed. Hidin the OH SO OBVIOUS! secret that his wife's not dead. I mean, was i the only one who guessed the beggar was his wife??? shows these days are sooo predictable, the more they try to make a twist at the ending the more they fail. I would say the same for the painted veil. the only difference was that, the ending was easily guessed but, unlike sweeny todd, i didnt want the main character to die. thus ignoring everysingel fact tht screamed tht might die. and yes.the only way to end this dark melodrama was if sweeny toodd died. The class of such a visual masterpiece would have been jeapordised if they had a hAPPY ENDING. it would then be another stupid blonde flick. only thing is tht its not all the blonde!
Also ironicly the little boy sweeny saved, from the clutches of his formed master, killed him in the end.. The whole show played on ironic sync, which unraveled one after the other. From the good turned evil barber. to killing the judge who he though killed his wfe, but actually killing her himself. Although i will give credit to the last frame. where the blood really looked like a work of art . when the bleeding main character. held the frail body of his wife.soaked in bloood for his possible hundreth time, basking in regret and final acceptance to his fate.
----- clover field------ u're next! *anyone wanna watch with meeee?*
