The Transfiguration – A Different Kind of Vampire Story
The Transfiguration is a different kind of vampire movie. But then it?s not really a vampire movie because we don?t have any of the undead who cannot stand the sun and are killed with a stake.
The Transfiguration is a different kind of vampire movie. But then it?s not really a vampire movie because we don?t have any of the undead who cannot stand the sun and are killed with a stake.
Of course, this is not just a history lesson of a turbulent time. The film never mentions more recent issues that have led to Black Lives Matter, but one cannot watch this film and not see today?s world.
It is rare that a film can seem to be poetry, and that may be even more difficult when the film has no dialogue. Yet The Red Turtle manages to be just that.
The relevance of this film was scary. . . . We were filming scenes of refugees fleeing across the desert while we were watching it on television. We were filming a siege in the mountains when the Yazidi were trapped in a mountain by ISIS.
There are four main animals that we get to meet and learn about: giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, snow leopards, and chiru antelope. The film flows back and forth between these animals as season moves to season.
The modern concept of genocide did not begin with the Holocaust; it started with the attempted extermination of the Armenians during the early years of World War I. The Promise tells the horrifying tale through the story of a love triangle (or perhaps quadrangle).
How do we make the choices in our lives? Are many of them made for us, or do we in the end own them ourselves? And how do we live with the results of those choices that may shape our lives for years to come?
Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) is always trying to put a deal together. He thinks that if he can just get to talk to the right people, he?ll be able to convince them of his idea. But, alas, his attempts to make the right contacts fall short. Until he meets the future Prime Minister of Israel.
Classism is very pronounced throughout this film. It represents a time when the classes were fixed. If you were born into one class, there you would stay. (It?s really not much different that some of the attitudes many of us watched in Downton Abbey.)
[Two boys] dream of life in Paris. When they grow up they head off to seek fame and fortune. They become the post-impressionist painter Paul C?zanne and novelist/journalist ?mile Zola.