Church of the Holy Close Up

Recently I spoke (typed) a bit about War Horse, and it led me to a thought about visual currents in Hollywood cinema. That being that for all the rumblings claiming film as a "visual medium," many filmmakers, amateur and professional seem to have a startling lack of faith in their images.

Many of the images in War Horse could be considered quite stirring once separated from the image stream. With all that money devoted to nothing other than a chance at effecting you on an emotional level, it's bound to work at least half the time. The other half is layered with an insulting "musical score as emotional guideline" that serves as nothing more than clarifying the clear. The score squanders any good will the images earn by over defining them. Had they been silent the images would have opened themselves to multiplicity, due to their ambiguity of emotion an intent.

In place of aesthetic evolution, is 3-D.