Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Ivan's Childhood
I liked this movie way better than Mirrors. I understood this film a lot better and way less complicated than it. It makes a lot more sense to me. Right from the beginning it grabbed my attention and had a bunch of information for use to use. Unlike Mirrors I got a little confused at the beginning. This movie was at a much faster pace to me then mirrors. I like that a lot in movies. One thing that I notice that was different from his other movie was the camera angles. One when the little boy is spinning and when the camera is like running through the trees making it seem like you are in the movie doing the running yourself. At the beginning of the movie when the boy is dreaming, I think that is what the boy wants more than anything to be with his mother again and then he wakes u and he is in a barn type building. Also how the camera is running alongside the boy sometimes which again is different form mirrors. Also at the end of the movie, it is kind of like a love story and reminds me of a Ballad Soldier.
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I also liked this movie a lot better than mirrors, I could figure out what was happening!
ReplyDeleteThe ending suprised me a little. I thought it was interesting that he choose to show that after we find out Ivan has died.
ReplyDeletei agree that the way the movie was filmed at some points it was like we were experiencing the actions ourselves. Like we were running, or we were talking to the characters..
ReplyDeleteThe final dream has left a lot of people a bit puzzled, because as Amy mentions it is shown to us after he has died. Is it meant to represent some sort of afterlife? Or is it what he might have dreamt earlier? Is it an allegory (note the dead tree right smack in the middle of the beach)? Or might it be (which I suspect is more likely) a poetic meditation that seems to combine the tragedy of the war with what might have been had Ivan been allowed to have a normal childhood during peacetime?
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