Artificial and cold pictures versus `real´ pictures

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2002)

Awful movie as it imposes his cutting-rhythm on the movie-goer. We get a slight idea that our only reason to watch this movie is to admire effects (which are digitally made and therefore look so artificial and cold).

Maybe the science fiction genre as a whole finds itself in a kind of opposition to the filmic world - they make such a great effort to create worlds with effects but when you just look at a David Lynch film for example, you realize that magic lies in the simple visible and `real´ things. So the camera has the possibility to show us `reality´ in a totally different way, in a way that may be even more shocking than every digitally-processed effect. The camera sees for us. It is a machine that can give us back something of our perception of the world we live in. So the magic lies in the different ways of perception and not in painted illusions (the digitally made landscapes are paintings) of what a world might look like - we do not even see our own world so why should we `live´ in a cold digital world?