Saturday, November 03, 2007

Film: Michael Clayton

I realized that I haven't been watching intellectual movies for a darn long time. It's sure good to watch something more substantial once again (for a change).

I felt really stupid for about 3/4 of the movie but then I suppose it is more the intention of the movie to unfold things ever so slowly as opposed to my intellectual capability to grasp the seemingly un-graspable.

Everything was however clear come the last 5 minutes of the film and my friend and I walked away saying 'this is really really good.'

I particularly loved the cinematography. Specific-focused, suave focus-pulls, the blurs of the street lights, warm-cool tones...

This is writer/director Tony Gilroy's directorial debut and I felt like giving him a standing ovation even before I knew he was a first 0time director.

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