Comments on: Hurry Up and Wait http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/02/11/hurry-up-and-wait/ Appreciation and Criticism of Cinema Through Heartland Eyes Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/02/11/hurry-up-and-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-27177 Andrew Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:51:31 +0000 http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/02/11/hurry-up-and-wait/#comment-27177 One cunning, meta-textual aspect of that penultimate scene is the casting of Vlad Ivanov. I think Porumboiu is counting on his Romanian and international audiences having scene "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" and therefore being slightly apprehensive when Ivanov appears. It adds a key layer of tension to the scene, as Ivanov is acting in a similar mode: the same preternatural calm and veneer of reasonableness, with an underlying menace. It makes it clear from the outset, before we've even heard Christi fumble through his defense of his position, that he is outclassed by the captain. One cunning, meta-textual aspect of that penultimate scene is the casting of Vlad Ivanov. I think Porumboiu is counting on his Romanian and international audiences having scene “4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days” and therefore being slightly apprehensive when Ivanov appears. It adds a key layer of tension to the scene, as Ivanov is acting in a similar mode: the same preternatural calm and veneer of reasonableness, with an underlying menace. It makes it clear from the outset, before we’ve even heard Christi fumble through his defense of his position, that he is outclassed by the captain.

]]> By: Sam Juliano http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/02/11/hurry-up-and-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-27125 Sam Juliano Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:31:31 +0000 http://gatewaycinephiles.com/2010/02/11/hurry-up-and-wait/#comment-27125 Wow Andrew, this is really a fantastic review, one of your best ever!!! Here are the key passages: "Accordingly, there is another, more impressive level to the film, one absorbed with language and the way it shapes, steers, and constrains us. What truly fascinates about Police, Adjective is how easily Porumboiu grafts what is for all practical purposes an academic treatise on linguistics onto his police procedural, and how the two complement and fortify one another." and "What makes Police, Adjective much stranger and more fascinating than it might have otherwise been is Porumboiu’s decision to add a slathering of academic noodling about the nature and meaning of words." That final extended scene where matter of 'law,''conscience' and 'morals' are broached is one of the greatest scenes of any 2009 film. In fact, POLICE ADJECTIVE finished #6 on my own ten best list. It an oddly riveting, observational in depressed environs, and while it's true what you say that it doesn't reach the scathing proportions of 12:08 EAST TO BUCHAREST, it's a police procederal with far more than just a cultural study. Wow Andrew, this is really a fantastic review, one of your best ever!!!

Here are the key passages:

“Accordingly, there is another, more impressive level to the film, one absorbed with language and the way it shapes, steers, and constrains us. What truly fascinates about Police, Adjective is how easily Porumboiu grafts what is for all practical purposes an academic treatise on linguistics onto his police procedural, and how the two complement and fortify one another.”

and

“What makes Police, Adjective much stranger and more fascinating than it might have otherwise been is Porumboiu’s decision to add a slathering of academic noodling about the nature and meaning of words.”

That final extended scene where matter of ‘law,”conscience’ and ‘morals’ are broached is one of the greatest scenes of any 2009 film. In fact, POLICE ADJECTIVE finished #6 on my own ten best list. It an oddly riveting, observational in depressed environs, and while it’s true what you say that it doesn’t reach the scathing proportions of 12:08 EAST TO BUCHAREST, it’s a police procederal with far more than just a cultural study.

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