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Dark Night
Dark Night enigmatically unfolds over the course of a lazy summer day, as it traces the events leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban multiplex. Abandoning the narrative confines of the true crime genre, the story is told through fragmented moments from the lives of several characters, whose fates are tragically intertwined. As the sky grows darker, the placid surface of daily life becomes disturbed by a lurking and inevitable horror.
| Release : | 2017 |
| Rating : | 4.3 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
| Cast : | Robert Jumper |
| Genre : | Drama |
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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
I suppose the makers of this film thought they were being "artistic" or "deep". Or perhaps they thought they were being clever. I really don't know. But I do know they failed miserably.There's no message or meaning to this film; characters whom we are never introduced to give no meaningful dialogue or express any emotion. It's just a series of random people doing boring things for an hour and a half. That's literally it. I have no other summary for the last 90 minutes I just wasted and can never get back.If you want a truly magnificent film on the subject of mass shootings, see Gus Van Sant's Elephant. Otherwise, stay away from this one. I mean it.1/10 Stars
I started watching this thinking it was a documentary about Aurora and it's aftermath. It took me probably 10 minutes to figure out that was wrong. There's no through line except they all end up in the same place at the same time, and I guess that's the point? But as you don't know any of the characters (don't even get names in most instances) there's no emotional connection to anyone other than "this is a terrible thing to have happen" in general. The desire here to go all artsy left the film with a void of emotion. We don't even know why the guy does what he did or get any sense of him at all. A boring, pointless film and I'll never get that time back. Originally rated a 3 but writing this review has made me dislike it even more.
Was this a student project? Trying to be existential and having problems staying awake mar this movie from the beginning. It's feeble attempt to try to be "deep" is annoying. The individuals who gave this movie any rating above a 2 must be relatives of the filmmakers. Avoid this movie at all course...it's a waste of time.
Tim Sutton's DARK NiGHT (USA) took the exact opposite approach as Quentin Tarantino & Alejandro González Iñárritu towards exploring his horrific subject matter by NOT exploiting it. Loosely based on the Aurora, Colorado massacre in 2012, in which a gunman killed 12 and wounded 70 moviegoers attending a screening of Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNiGHT RiSES, this haunting, slice-of-life exploration of the random events that led the townsfolk to the movie theater is paced like Claire Denis' Friday NiGHT (2002) and Gus Van Sant's ELEPHANT (2003). In fact, the cinematographer Helene Louvart, who shot Wim Wenders' PiNA (2011) and Agnes Varda's THE BEACHES OF AGNES (2008), was the perfect fit for the director's intense visual style. Combined with MEMPHiS (2013) and Pavilion (2011), Tim Sutton is an American filmmaker who is attempting movies that not only are beautiful to look at, but melodic to experience, no matter what the subject may be.Review taken from 2016 Sundance Film Festival wrap up at www.48hills.org
