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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
I just got home from watching The Last Samurai with my family. Hmmm - it was entertainment with Tom Cruise at it's peak. Not much else. A few VERY beautiful shots (the door shots where Algren is having abstinenses). A lot of sentimentalism. Well engineered music to guide the viewers sympathy in the grand battle scenes. Good old classic Hollywood. And it seems like slow motion is back - after tons of movies using bullet time etc. I liked it for entertainment, but I don't think I will be watching it for a second time. Apart from all this the overall theme in the movie made me think apart something Huizinga wrote in his Homo Ludens: "Juist echter de moderne oorlog heeft schijnbaar elke annraking met het spel verloren" (But exactly the modern war seems to have lost any touch with the game). *** - | posted by Tommy on 8:27 PM ---ooo--- |
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