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weenpeep · 03-05-2017, 02:02 PM

The Lobster(Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos) impressed me so hard. Social commentry inside brutal fantasy. I'ts bordering on Absurdist, but comes nowhere close to Alejandro Jordorowski's work.

Alps also by Lanthimos is one of the best movies I've seen recently. Its in Greek, not english like The Lobster, and its far less considerate than it also. Its one of the most involved movies I've seen (by that I mean that it isn't a passive experience like so many movies, where they just dump all the information right onto your lap so you can sit back and just not do any interpretation) It doesn't insult the audience like other movies, where they will add in a line only to give the audience some background information; "Oh my dear son, I'm so sad because your father died in the war some years ago! Of course you know that, but I just felt like saying it." that kind of stuff. Also characters are sometimes added not by necessity, but as the spokesperson for what the audience is thinking; they ask questions about details that the audience might want to know.

In Alps there is none of this. I went in knowing only the premise, which I think was a good move => "A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process."

See it See it See it.

03-05-2017, 02:02 PM	#18931 (permalink)
weenpeep Groupie Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 2	Yorgos Lanthimos The Lobster(Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos) impressed me so hard. Social commentry inside brutal fantasy. I'ts bordering on Absurdist, but comes nowhere close to Alejandro Jordorowski's work. Alps also by Lanthimos is one of the best movies I've seen recently. Its in Greek, not english like The Lobster, and its far less considerate than it also. Its one of the most involved movies I've seen (by that I mean that it isn't a passive experience like so many movies, where they just dump all the information right onto your lap so you can sit back and just not do any interpretation) It doesn't insult the audience like other movies, where they will add in a line only to give the audience some background information; "Oh my dear son, I'm so sad because your father died in the war some years ago! Of course you know that, but I just felt like saying it." that kind of stuff. Also characters are sometimes added not by necessity, but as the spokesperson for what the audience is thinking; they ask questions about details that the audience might want to know. In Alps there is none of this. I went in knowing only the premise, which I think was a good move => "A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process." See it See it See it.