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Rewatch alert: The Crow
Feb. 19th, 2009 05:41 pmIn exchanging my comic collection with my work friend, I stopped to re-read The Crow the other week. Naturally, I then had to watch the movie again. It's still almost entirely brilliant and heartbreaking, for all that it should so overwrought it collapses under its own weight. I guess it pays to beat the emo train into the station.
What makes the difference between a good movie and great movie is that a great movie keeps getting better, keeps being different with each viewing. (The same is true of any work of art, really.) ( This time, I saw faces. )
It's so hard to parse a film that was interrupted prematurely, but I have enough faith in this director that the choice of having Eric's naked face almost never shown was intentional as much as it was necessary. Such a shame that Brandon Lee's last movie would obscure him so, but it is a better metaphor for it.
What makes the difference between a good movie and great movie is that a great movie keeps getting better, keeps being different with each viewing. (The same is true of any work of art, really.) ( This time, I saw faces. )
It's so hard to parse a film that was interrupted prematurely, but I have enough faith in this director that the choice of having Eric's naked face almost never shown was intentional as much as it was necessary. Such a shame that Brandon Lee's last movie would obscure him so, but it is a better metaphor for it.
