I was really a passenger on Roy's trip for the whole film and Gray did a great job of making it pretty much a singular pov in which you and Roy become sort of the same. At one point, when he's going to Neptune, I was asking my friend if the movie is becoming trippy or it was the LSD. For the most part I sat still, with my jaw dropped because it didn't want to close and just moving my eyes from left to right, not having anything else to do with the rest of my body.
Everything was very subtle, not becoming pretentious or over-indulgent, the soundtrack from Max Richter and Lorne Balfe being there to create the mood and inner feelings Roy was having and visually it was beyond incredible. Van Hoytema is slowly becoming a legendary DP at this rate.
I feel Gray delivered a low key masterpiece and this sort of big budget space film doesn't come out often from the Hollywood system. It was quite a profound experience, especially in the last 45 minutes.
Aside from that, I noticed a good deal of scenes shown in the trailer weren't in the actual film, so maybe it will probably get an extended/director's cut sometime in the future, like Apocalypse now, which was a big inspiration on it.
Anyway, what have you guys watched while tripping and how did it feel?
Submitted September 23, 2019 at 04:42AM by Kriss-Kringle https://ift.tt/31IcP6X