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But it was also an understandable bit of chicanery.
Come watch an old man die!
wasnt much of a tagline then, nor is it now.
Maybe not technically Technicolor, but something similarly saturated and rich.
It would be incorrect, however, to call Hermanus and Ishiguros approach a replication, or imitation.
This is not campy cosplay, but a kind of communion with the spirit and simplicity of the past.
Because theres something ingenious about the films style.Livingtraffics in relatively basic ideas.
How, then, to revitalize them for todays audience?
A more modern approach might seem impoverished, shallow, lacking in complexity.
LikeIkiru,Livinglocks us into the central characters despair.
Lanky and prim, the always-excellent Nighy portrays Williams with an aristocratic reserve.
Suffer in silence or rage at the snuffing of ones light; either approach works.
We all die in our own way.
If you havent seen it yet, you really should.
Monotony and constancy gain their own kind of luster when the world is going mad.
But he also saw their humanity, their buried striving.
The highest compliment I can payLivingis that it takes those dusty ideas and makes them resonate once more.
Not unlike remembering an old, familiar song, and understanding it for the first time.
