Reviews

From the first moment I felt myself well entertained. I did not check the specifics, before after watching it, so I was surprised that it was made so many years after the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. The lighting and filming was stimulating from start to finish. And nothing wrong with the cutting neither. I remember nothing about the sound, so it much have done its job well. The filming ( the grittyness/grain ) and the format, made it seem a true timepiece, that maybe because of that, sometimes balances on the edge of kitsch.

It used to be my favorite Sci-fi movie, along with "Silent Running" and of course "2001: A Space Odyssey"! And why?? By taking it´s time, it focuses more on the "human" / emotional dilemmas, than it focuses on the technical exuberance of the years to come. And in that respect it succeeds in getting much closer to the experience of reading a Sci-fi novel, than most other Sci-fi movies. And that is indeed a rare feat. Very few directors in any movie genre( or is it maybe the producers, the money-men backing the projects, who stop it? ) dare to do that, and even fewer get away with it. Wim Wenders is another director who successfully manages this balancing act, of letting "a lot nothing" take up a lot of space in the finished movie, and ends up telling us more, by leaving us to FEEL it, experience it, rather than hear of it from characters in the movie.

Today´s favorite Sci-fi: "The Fifth Element", but that is almost a different genre.