Undeniable power

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2004)

I was watching "Odds Against Tomorrow" in the video lab at my school the other day, and "Gone With the Wind" was playing across from me, where a girl was listening on headphones. Even muted, and watching an already good movie, I ended up paying so much more attention to "Gone With the Wind."
The offensive politics, the pompousness, the bloated plot- none of it really detracts from the movie's undeniable power, which could rest (but doesn't) alone on the crisp, HUGE Technicolor vistas. Never have sunsets seemed so beautiful! If you can stay awake through one prolonged sitting, it is actually a very involving and emotionally tense experience. Nowadays movies are so fast-paced and self-referencing that they have the opposite effect: losing my attention in a blur...but HERE is a movie! Hollywood at its best.