Carnage (2011)

What I want to say is that it's not your best movie and it could be better, but as it is, it's a wonder. It could be a movie to be put into management classes, like composing, like having a shot. How to place characters without appearing to place them. There are people who say that it is a way of filming very theater, what they do not understand is that the theater is seen in a general plane and here what you see is very flat composed with terms in the foreground telling what matters. Even so I could have done better and take more advantage.I do not like that the film seems incomplete, I know some will say that with what there is, everything is said, but personally I like closed endings.The actors can not be better. As they change their interpretations, and all square from one plane to another, with the preparation they carry. How are their characters changing?Photography is very good, without being spectacular, how much the story. It does not put much light through the window and it leaves you blind. It seems that it is not there, however it is.What else to say about the director. Rolling is a genius. It does not bore you, on the contrary, it catches you. Makes an entertaining movie in a living room. Beautiful and composed plans to cut a story. All well measured and without losing story from one plane to another.It's a little gem, do not stop seeing the.

The purpose of this review is to demonstrate if the whole movie (directors, actors, cameras, ...) used the "huis clos" thematic in an efficient way.First of all, the movie starts with a child hurting another in a park. It's the only scene of the movie which is filmed outside the "huis clos" area. The rest of the plot takes place inside an apartment with only 4 actors, two couples of parents, Jodie Foster with John C. Reilly and Kate Winslet with Christoph Waltz.Each personality is very different but one stands out compared to the others. It's the Alan Cowan's one (Waltz). He has all the characteristics of the annoying corporate worker/businessman being himself head of a law firm. His cynical and sarcastic lines will greatly contribute to the suffocating feeling trough the movie. Him and Michael Longstreet (Reilly) will be the only characters to have contacts outside the "huis clos". The former, contacting his client an outstanding number of times which will lead the plot to reach its peak and explode, the latter receiving calls from his mother. Also, we will never hear any of the interlocutors, we will only hear what our characters ask and answer to them. The cameras didn't use particular angles inside the apartment. Only the script gets the mood heavier and lighter.As the story ends, every character will settle down and stops being petulant. The storyline is shaped like mountain, increasing to the peak, and then, decreasing to the ground.As a matter of fact, the movie succeed in the "huis clos" exercise. It balances well between suffocating and more ventilated moments. The actors and the script help a lot. The early stages were long to catch the viewer attention, nevertheless, the movie is a success and a nice tribute to Sartre.

I chose this film off of blue ridge on demand knowing nothing about it. It caught my eye because I saw John C. Reilly in the description as one of the leading actors, being I'm not even a big fan of Reilly, I have no idea why it compelled me to view it but I'm glad I did.To put it shortly, the film is about two couples having a meet due to their children getting into a physical fight with each other.All the characters were believable, even the ridiculous character played by Jodie Foster, because I happen to know someone just like that personally. The movie was pretty predictable but it did not take away from the brilliance. The wives turning on the husbands and vise versa, everyone one person is against every other character at some point or another and all their points of view are able to be related to. Everyone of them has so much character and emotion which is ripped away and put out for every one to see at an alarming rate, especially with the help of a few drinks. I won't go into a lot of detail but kudos to the entire cast for playing difficult characters. What I mean by difficult is, well I had a hunch and come to find out that it was true that the entire movie was shot in real time without any breaks or pauses, and that must be something difficult to do. Any person can go through several emotions in a few hours from every day life experiences but these people bear everything from generally hospitable and laughter down to point of marriage breaking arguments and saying they don't even care about the situation involving their children period. The cast pulls it off amazingly, it comes across realistic, exciting, and authentic. To think, the movie begins with the two couples already together with one of the pairs heading out the door right from the start and an entire cleverly put together film takes place before they make their way out. Actually I do believe the flick ends even before the couple leaves which would probably be its only real downfall to the general public, the completely abrupt ending, even though I personally thought that it fit the moment justly.

A movie that's a must watch for it's sheer stupidity that has a point of it's own. Yeah, at times you may feel the whole thing absurd and at the end you may confirm yourself that the whole movie is absurd too, but I thought this to be a more meaningful cinema and it's pure fun. You can't just lock parents over their children's act and then take it head on to reveal how childish the parents are, and how mature their kids are. Nothing is explicitly shown and nothing is elaborated, but yet in a few glimpses or frames, we can make out each character, and that's what it is so essential. For a writing to be called good, it has to be remembered by it's characters and their lines and that's what exactly this film does. Based on a play by Yasmina Reza, who has done a stupendous job in writing, Roman Polanski has tried effectively in depicting the emotions and what had each character been through. Even a tiny phone conversation that is actually so digressive becomes very important. Yes, its easy to remember each character coz they are just four. Tied up in an apartment where a hall, a kitchen or even bathroom become such important locations now. In Nearly 75 minutes of the length, the film could have gone anywhere but it ends at a point after which everything else seems pointless. How ever they may crib about each other, each character is unique and has his or her own misgivings. One has insecurity complex, one has cunningness to hide things, one is very upset due to her deeds, the other is so because he is not doing what he wants to. So in all it's absurdity too it has a meaning so very underplayed that by the end, all seems so meaningful then. The kids patch up so very easily than the parents, who bring their egos to everything they can and just cannot let their egos go. I am so happy to have watched this, and thanks to Roman Polanski to undertake this play and turn it to a cinema that is subtle, underplayed but the end is very warming and overwhelming. A 4/5 for a film that says "with minimum of things, you can still tell a very important story". This is the kind of film even I would love to be a part of.