Bruges in Belgium

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2008)

The tittle appealed to me being a great fan of French singer Jaques Brel as he mentions this city in one of his songs, Yes far fetch but true and completely useless as far as this movie is concerned! Another reason I have seen this movie is because it was run in an independent theater where I often go and see non English movies and I do so partly because my origins are in Europe but also because I have great difficulty to hear and foreign movies are usually subtitled. Now we're getting there, this movie is entirely in English but what English! Irish sputtered a the speed of a machine gun! So I really missed many gems from a clever dialog that got much response from the audience. The language was very strong and this certainly did not impressed my wife. Of course the language I'm referring too is the one that even deaf people will hear! I know this language is a real part of a certain world, so if you don't approve or belong to this world you may have some difficulty in enjoying this movie. Despite these difficulties I have thoroughly enjoyed In Bruges. The beginning, I imagine, intended slowness creates a contrast for fast action.following The comic events are just delightful, but behind all this there is a strong display of contrasting characters. If I was to complain about hearing difficulties , I probably would feel like a blind person complaining about image quality, however I hope in the future those with such impairment will have text facility to enjoy full dialog. With such big screens one would think there would be enough room below for a black strip to include white text. I know I'm driving a hard bargain knowing that screen area is a little like prime real estate. Just the same sometimes it would be good if movie makers would have some thought for those infortunates! Yes a hard bargain, next will have special request to create operas for half deaf people!