Strength of Contrasts

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2015)

The movie gives that feeling... you watch it and feel something like pain of looking at dirty truth although you would probably prefer to look at something more pleasant even if it were a sweetest lie. But you do not have such an opportunity. You just see the absurd and you understand that it is a film, it is an absurd, all is like pictured on canvas with pencil and paints. They use a pink filter for shooting (I can recall only one else use of pink filter, in 'La môme'), they show stupid gags and heroes are funny - to intensify contrast between beautiful pictures, nice heroes and ugly situation. And you want to cry of all you see. It is painful... Maybe, it is an effect after all our XX century history, who knows. If you could rewrite it you would do it. But all choice you have, like a personage of Jude Law has, is to live with it.