Jul 11, 2022·edited Jul 12, 2022Liked by Casey Muratori
It's the first time I have seen it and I also think it's a great movie especially for the cinematography. I don't know any movie from the 80s with using so much practical lighting, I can't say if it is a first but it looks ahead of its time.
With that said, I am somewhat ambivalent on some other aspects. The music is like a pleonasm the whole movie and that totally breaks the immersion for me. I think the acting is good but since the music overemphasizes too much, the acting becomes more noticable as well and it kind of distracted me. Also I totally get the idea of humanizing the crew and I think they did a good job, but still it didn't feel self-evident. I even thought at the midpoint of the movie that they would sink the submarine and that we would switch to an other crew (something like Death Proof by Tarantino.)
I really liked the intro and the ending, both are tonally different from the rest of the movie. For the ending, I liked that the captain watched his submarine sink, I thought the metaphor was ambiguous enough to allow different readings. At first, I read it as he cared more about his ship than his crew, but it could be that he loved his job as captain, thought the war was pointless, etc.
If we watch more war movies, it could be interesting to watch Les carabiniers and Le petit soldat by Godard, I have not seen them yet but they are considered classics as well.
I haven't watched this one yet, but it would be good to know how it compares to Greyhound ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6048922/ ).
Greyhound is told from the captain's perspective, tho.
It's the first time I have seen it and I also think it's a great movie especially for the cinematography. I don't know any movie from the 80s with using so much practical lighting, I can't say if it is a first but it looks ahead of its time.
With that said, I am somewhat ambivalent on some other aspects. The music is like a pleonasm the whole movie and that totally breaks the immersion for me. I think the acting is good but since the music overemphasizes too much, the acting becomes more noticable as well and it kind of distracted me. Also I totally get the idea of humanizing the crew and I think they did a good job, but still it didn't feel self-evident. I even thought at the midpoint of the movie that they would sink the submarine and that we would switch to an other crew (something like Death Proof by Tarantino.)
I really liked the intro and the ending, both are tonally different from the rest of the movie. For the ending, I liked that the captain watched his submarine sink, I thought the metaphor was ambiguous enough to allow different readings. At first, I read it as he cared more about his ship than his crew, but it could be that he loved his job as captain, thought the war was pointless, etc.
If we watch more war movies, it could be interesting to watch Les carabiniers and Le petit soldat by Godard, I have not seen them yet but they are considered classics as well.
I somehow want to watch Gandhi now