11:14 (2003)
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Directed by: Greg Marcks
My Rate: 4/5
We have a famous and beautiful poem in Persian literature, I can't remind the poet's name. It tells the story of an eagle that spreads its wings and flies to find something to hunt, but is hit itself by a hunter's arrow. During falling down the eagle looks at its wing and the arrow and finds his own feather at the tail of the arrow, it sighs:
"At who we should protest? We're responsible for what happens to ourselves." (the whole effect and beauty of the story is in the Persian the poet has used, and you can't find any of that in my translation!).
Most of the time these effects are not so apparent as that eagle observed, because the universe is so complicated. The nature is curved and non linear, that's why works of art that follow the style of nature are more affecting. 11:14 adheres the same scheme. A very simple story told in a non-linear way, from different points of view of different observers and effectors. this kind of narration is supported with some butterfly effect philosophy make an incredible movie from a young and independent director. I can compare the narration to the way of "21 Grams", (but in a more simple way, 21 Grams was much more complicated), and the character design to Tarantino's characters with all their stupidities.
"At who we should protest? We're responsible for what happens to ourselves." (the whole effect and beauty of the story is in the Persian the poet has used, and you can't find any of that in my translation!).
Most of the time these effects are not so apparent as that eagle observed, because the universe is so complicated. The nature is curved and non linear, that's why works of art that follow the style of nature are more affecting. 11:14 adheres the same scheme. A very simple story told in a non-linear way, from different points of view of different observers and effectors. this kind of narration is supported with some butterfly effect philosophy make an incredible movie from a young and independent director. I can compare the narration to the way of "21 Grams", (but in a more simple way, 21 Grams was much more complicated), and the character design to Tarantino's characters with all their stupidities.
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Juannnn!!!
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Hi, I saw that film a few days ago, and now I found this article again, just by chance. I have to say, that it is a very intelligent movie, but in my opinion, it's just an exercise of style (we could also say: calligraphy), The same movie could be told in 20 minutes with the same details, but the director enjoys himself just turning around the same details and making everything longer that it should be.
The characters in the movie act in a strange way, that was a little bit disappointing.
I don't know if I had rated it 3 or 4 over 5.
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