a brand new kind of cinema

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2006)

I've just come back from the cinema and I would really like to thank Christopher Gans for succeeding this tour de force. As a former film student now working in the game industry, I'd like to say that Silent Hill is like no other movie, simply because it's the first time that a real movie is made from the medium of video game. It makes us forget all the other game-to-movie "inspirations" that we have unfortunately seen over the years hoping that they would respect our art form and us. This is also why film critics from the old generation probably won't understand Silent Hill. They have only been used to movies resulting from book adaptations with their rather linear and passive feeling. This is a brand new kind of cinema.