Tuesday 8 March 2011

Klass

Pretty dodgy movie, directed in 2007 by one Ilmar Raag with a pretty shocking last 15 mintues....
The style has nothing of any interest; rapid cutting from any and every angle, racking focus and pan and scan, no tripods in sight, annoying, disorientating, and showing no skill whatsoever. The less said about the stylised montage the better.
This, combined with a pretty straightforward (and utterly nonsensical; holes everywhere, making it quite funny) narrative make the whole think come on like a life skills video. Just to emphasise, the plot is really all over the place. Rationality does not seem to exist in this strange world.
The acting is also terrible, themes are flagged up with the subtlety of a bulldozer, before hastily being forgotten again.
Then we have one pretty shocking scene; out of place, but then again what is being ‘dealt with’ is pretty nasty. An undeserved moment, but it does add to the grimness already depicted, without adding anything to it.
Then the frankly bizarre situation when we’re on the side of the school shooters. This is stylised in a morally troubling way, as, frankly is the whole set up. If it was possible to take it seriously, would be pretty hugely worrying. Yes, we’ve seen what happened is horrible, but this film is just unrelenting bleakness, with a pretty uncontrolled ending.
It certainly gets more watchable, but generally this film is pretty boring. The end is interesting, which redeems it slightly, but perhaps interesting for the wrong reasons. Film is largely a write off.

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