I. Beauty
After a few minutes, I began considering this "The
Pinterest Movie". A collection of beautiful images, cobbled together
without much organization intended to stir awe and wonder. On a huge screen, I
could imagine some of these images causing jaw-dropping amazement, but on a
laptop, it feels like I'm going through a Google Images search of
"beautiful".
II. Deconstruction
After I had been put into a lull, an artistic performance
stuns the viewer, helping us realize that we are not in the movie we once
thought. No longer sleepy, I awake to a breakdown of the beauty presented in
the first part of the film. Even though this middle section continues none of
the images from the first, in a sense this set of images destroys the beauty
seen in the first section, forcing us to forget, to almost negate the beauty
originally presented.
III. Restoration
Through religion, the directors seem to be saying, we can
restore the world to the beauty that creation was intended to display. This is
the weakest set of the three, because although we see a semblance of the
beauty, it is neither as stunning as the first or any kind of antidote to the
second.
I love the progress the film goes through, but I think it is
religiously naive, and starts too slowly. Still, for a non-narrative film, it
has a clear message and a lot of depth, especially in the second section.
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