9 October 2000
Subway is Luc Besson's first film, a french director who nowadays is known all around the world for his bold and striking films that all have a style of their own.
Here is a director from France who wants to give the audience something they're not used to seeing on the big screen. A fashionable, chic and new wave cinematographic style, bright colours and artsy shots in a sophisticated setting. Luc Besson gives real life a touch of inaccuracy and invalidness. The numerous characters are succumbed into a false reality. The location of the film is quite fascinating because the viewer gets introduced to a metro in France and step by step our main character Fred (Christophe Lambert) discovers hidden facets in an underground environment occupied by striking people with witty and flamboyant personalities.
This film is involved in the cinema du look movement that spanned out through the 80s and mid-90s in France. This film relies on style and the value of it's adventurous camerawork but not too much on substance. This film would've been superior if it had an interesting story to accompany the visionary style of Luc Besson. The story is extremely puzzling, you don't know why any of the characters are being portrayed as bandits. The opening scene is unbelievably confusing, it starts with a police chase, all I wanted to know was why he got himself in this situation and I never got an answer. They almost make it seem as if it's made to be that way, as if it's entirely normal that the viewer doesn't understand the reason of all the chaos that's taking place. I had to browse the internet to get my questions answered and now that I have acknowledged the entire plot of the film, it still feels the same way as when I watched it. An extremely thin plot that didn't captivate me at all.
I moderately recommend Subway, Luc Besson's imaginative, inventive, perceptive and innovative style of film-making is extremely interesting to delve into and analyse with a critic's point of view. However when it comes to the general plot of the film, it falls incredibly short. Subway should be thought of as a piece of art instead of a movie.
Subway is Luc Besson's first film, a french director who nowadays is known all around the world for his bold and striking films that all have a style of their own.
Here is a director from France who wants to give the audience something they're not used to seeing on the big screen. A fashionable, chic and new wave cinematographic style, bright colours and artsy shots in a sophisticated setting. Luc Besson gives real life a touch of inaccuracy and invalidness. The numerous characters are succumbed into a false reality. The location of the film is quite fascinating because the viewer gets introduced to a metro in France and step by step our main character Fred (Christophe Lambert) discovers hidden facets in an underground environment occupied by striking people with witty and flamboyant personalities.
This film is involved in the cinema du look movement that spanned out through the 80s and mid-90s in France. This film relies on style and the value of it's adventurous camerawork but not too much on substance. This film would've been superior if it had an interesting story to accompany the visionary style of Luc Besson. The story is extremely puzzling, you don't know why any of the characters are being portrayed as bandits. The opening scene is unbelievably confusing, it starts with a police chase, all I wanted to know was why he got himself in this situation and I never got an answer. They almost make it seem as if it's made to be that way, as if it's entirely normal that the viewer doesn't understand the reason of all the chaos that's taking place. I had to browse the internet to get my questions answered and now that I have acknowledged the entire plot of the film, it still feels the same way as when I watched it. An extremely thin plot that didn't captivate me at all.
I moderately recommend Subway, Luc Besson's imaginative, inventive, perceptive and innovative style of film-making is extremely interesting to delve into and analyse with a critic's point of view. However when it comes to the general plot of the film, it falls incredibly short. Subway should be thought of as a piece of art instead of a movie.