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Post by sparklingblue on Mar 22, 2007 22:08:12 GMT 1
From moviemaze.de: Trailer for Seraphim Falls in Quicktime format, in three sizes and for iPod (direct downloads)
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Post by sparklingblue on May 22, 2007 11:36:55 GMT 1
So, I saw it last night, thanks to DVD and fast mail delivery. Here are some of my thoughts about Seraphim Falls. Please be aware of spoilers, especially in the last paragraph! Let me start off with the most obvious: it was very good. It is one of these films that make such an impression it stays with me. Much like everybody else I loved the landscape, and the challenges it put the actors and thereby the characters through. And the actors were marvellous. Pierce even more so than Liam, and I'm not only saying that because I'm biased. Watching this was, for lack of a better expression, a strain for me emotionally. It was violent, but somehow that didn't seem to bother me as much as the sense of loneliness and the desperation you get from the characters, especially from Gideon. Carver seems to me, at least through a great part of the film, determined, obsessed, but he seems to be more alert to what is around him, not remote. Whereas with Gideon I got the feeling that most of the time he is not completely there, walking around in a kind of stupor of guilt, despair, loneliness, grief and exhaustion. It’s almost as if he’s already dead, and only the chase keeps him alive. When he has to kill for his own survival, he is quick and ruthless. But at the point where he realises that killing is required from him now, for a moment there is an expression on Pierce’s face as if he didn’t want to kill again, he has killed so often before, he doesn’t want to take another life. I almost couldn’t watch the scene in which Gideon removes the bullet. But more for the way Pierce screams than for the sight of it. It was so real. Frightening. A moment that really touched me was when Gideon is in the cabin with the little boy, and suddenly emotion comes through as he talks to the kid. There is some hint of a father's love there, and then the grief comes over his lost sons. Pierce plays it wonderfully. He made me cry in this scene. I also liked the ending. The appearance of Anjelica Houston didn’t bother me much. She comes out of nowhere, but in the desert, without water and exhausted, hallucinations happen, people don’t know what is real and what isn’t… Her character, whether you call her the devil, or temptation, or whatever people relate to her, seems to be the last test for Carver and Gideon. Life or revenge. A bullet or water and a horse. Killing the enemy or getting out of the desert alive. Both choose the bullet. But they don’t kill each other. Gideon even puts Carver’s gun to his own head in what I thought was another poignant moment. Instead Gideon gives Carver some water. There is forgiveness between them, the chase is over. Both throw away their weapons, walk away. I got the sense that they each are going to die alone somewhere in that desert.
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