07-12-2020, 03:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-12-2020, 04:06 PM by TM2YC. Edited 3 times in total.)
^ After 'Fury Road' I'll watch any action film with Charlize Theron in it. I'll give that a spin some time.
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
'Meek's Cutoff' is very loosely based on real events, when frontier guide Stephen Meek unwisely led a group of settlers on an arduous (and for some, fatal) journey across an uncharted stretch of Oregon desert. The first 10-minutes spent observing a settler wagon train fording a deep, fast-moving river and then laboriously inching across the desert, with virtually no dialogue, or story, filmed in long takes with just the roar of the water, the creak of wagon wheels and the sounds of nature, will probably test the patience of many... if so, be prepared for another 90+ minutes in more-or-less the same style. This approach while lacking much narrative progression or resolution, does serve to take the viewer back in time, to experience the slow pace of life and isolation of the early settlers, crawling like ants across what may as well be an endless alien landscape. The beauty of Director Kelly Reichardt and Cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt's 4:3 35mm compositions are jaw dropping (I'm going to look out for Blauvelt's name on other films), alone they were enough to hold my attention. Some subtle dry humour is there to be found, like the absurdity of the women being huddled away from the men "talking business" like they were still "in the parlor" and not lost in the wilderness, or the settlers finding gold and them all just shrugging and continuing to look for water instead.
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
'Meek's Cutoff' is very loosely based on real events, when frontier guide Stephen Meek unwisely led a group of settlers on an arduous (and for some, fatal) journey across an uncharted stretch of Oregon desert. The first 10-minutes spent observing a settler wagon train fording a deep, fast-moving river and then laboriously inching across the desert, with virtually no dialogue, or story, filmed in long takes with just the roar of the water, the creak of wagon wheels and the sounds of nature, will probably test the patience of many... if so, be prepared for another 90+ minutes in more-or-less the same style. This approach while lacking much narrative progression or resolution, does serve to take the viewer back in time, to experience the slow pace of life and isolation of the early settlers, crawling like ants across what may as well be an endless alien landscape. The beauty of Director Kelly Reichardt and Cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt's 4:3 35mm compositions are jaw dropping (I'm going to look out for Blauvelt's name on other films), alone they were enough to hold my attention. Some subtle dry humour is there to be found, like the absurdity of the women being huddled away from the men "talking business" like they were still "in the parlor" and not lost in the wilderness, or the settlers finding gold and them all just shrugging and continuing to look for water instead.
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