#201
Posted: 1/12/13 at 9:05am
I saw it again for the second time too with my parents. My father who was actually the most skeptical and who had read the most on the criticism came out thinking the film was brilliant and also that its criticisms seemed to be overstating the film's depiction of torture and what it is trying to say about torture. Also seeing it again, I actually came out a lot softer on the character Dan. Anybody who sees the movie again needs to watch that particular character because he is indeed haunted by what he did. He tells others to to no longer do what he did for legal purposes and also their sanity.
Bigelow's snub is still pretty irksome. There are followers of the Oscars who think there is a whispering campaign against it. AMPAS member David Clennon, who did not include the film on his ballot at all, openly called for other members to shun it. Why Bigelow and not Boal's screenplay seems to come down to the fact that the people who vote for that category are writers who are not as into 'punishing' nominees when such works come under fire.
I also think Greig Fraser's cinematography should have gotten nominated. But night-vision sequences are not as 'sexy' looking as the camera work in Life of Pi or even Deakins' work in Skyfall (which I think should win). But Fraser's work or the cinematography in The Master easily could have taken the Les Miserables spot- a film where some of the strongest criticism was the camera work.
Bigelow's snub is still pretty irksome. There are followers of the Oscars who think there is a whispering campaign against it. AMPAS member David Clennon, who did not include the film on his ballot at all, openly called for other members to shun it. Why Bigelow and not Boal's screenplay seems to come down to the fact that the people who vote for that category are writers who are not as into 'punishing' nominees when such works come under fire.
I also think Greig Fraser's cinematography should have gotten nominated. But night-vision sequences are not as 'sexy' looking as the camera work in Life of Pi or even Deakins' work in Skyfall (which I think should win). But Fraser's work or the cinematography in The Master easily could have taken the Les Miserables spot- a film where some of the strongest criticism was the camera work.
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