Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Dying Swan
This movie went on forever. It seemed like they had parts of the movie they didnt need in it but again it was at the beginning of the film business and the more the better back then was best. The silent film again deals with people cheating on each other. Gizella can not speak but has an amazing gift of dancing. Once Gizella gets hurt from Viktor because he cheated on her. She uses her depression or anger or sadness to become a good dance and Valeriy gets obsessed with her. He has been searching for death his entire life and finds it in Gizella's danceing because of what Viktor did to her. Then when Viktor comes back and tells Gizella that he was wrong and that he loves her, she doesnt have that death dance anymore and she is killed by Valeriy. Another thing that i thought was interesting was that she was warned in her dreams that she was going to die by him but she choose to ignore it. Also her father warned he too.
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Interesting--I'm not sure I feel the same dragging Dying Swan that you seem to (nor the superfluous parts). To me it seems to almost really move in spots--and I feel a rather marked change in Bauer's style in this film from the two prior ones we watched. There's a little less clutter in the sets and I find that some of the exaggerated expressions (apart from Glinsky) have been reduced a bit.
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