floatingleaf | full moon in Pisces exposes my unfulfilled craving for emotional drama ;-) (Reply)

Not much to report this weekend. I watched Thirteen Lives, but somehow it didn't affect me as much as I thought it might. The film is really heavily focused on the logistics of the massive rescue operation, rather than the psychological/emotional impact it had on everyone involved. We learn very little about the boys being rescued - and so it doesn't really feel, to me at least, like I have good reason to be hugely invested in their survival. It's almost like a documentary; very detailed and thorough about the sequence of events, but somehow shallow at the same time when it comes to the people. What I would have been really interested in seeing would be an intimate story about the psychological impact of trauma, in the context of a natural disaster/basic survival and so on. Viggo could have been SO good at that (think of The Road!). But he didn't really get a chance for any deep inner explorations in this movie; he plays a "tough guy" who barely shows any emotion at all. He's all business, so he takes care of business - and then he goes home. Story done. LOL.

That is all. :-P