Microphone in the film

Rating: 5/10 (13 February 2007)

I am not sure why the AMC cionema in Hong Kong at Pacific Place offered this film in a very annoying 4:3 format. Not only did it kill the art direction of the film (actors getting cut off on the left and right side of the film and thus the cropping felt so unnatural) but the goddamn microphone appeared above people's head more than 20 times in the film. Imagine trying to get immersed in a period film when you see a microphone on the top of the screen. I am not sure whether I really like the film now since my experience of it was destroyed by weird cropping. I wrote to AMC, but I can't believe that they are not more careful about this. Ridiculous.
Besides all this, I think the film is OK, but the pace is not that good. Sometimes the music went well with the scenes, a new way of looking at cinema music, but I feel some of the songs made me imagine the 80's in a period film... awkward.