CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
BlazeLime Strong and Moving!
DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
merelyaninnuendo The Squid And The Whale It is so fabricated that it has to be realistic and when one achieves that fine line on the horizon and manages to perfectly balance it until the curtain drops there is a cathartic release among viewers which is quite rare to find. Noah Baumbach's writing is way too strong and has enormous potential to be independent of any barring or restrains and floats peculiarly where one cannot move away ones concentration from it. His execution skills are irable too but might have to work on it a bit more to even match with its astoundingly poetic script. Jeff Daniels has got it covered on "performance" department where Laura Linney and Jesse Eisenberg are ing him throughout the course of it. The Squid And The Whale is not your typical dysfunctional family genre feature for the places it visits and the range it contains, is something one can't even possibly imagine.
tomjerry-74292 All he (the screenwriter) has done was hiding some secret meanings to a number of entities for the viewers to solve. Sure, it's fun working on a puzzle as long as it's "interesting". People give away awards for it because I understand the world is full of crappy writers. In other words, the screenwriter for this movie got "lucky". Now let's focus on the big picture. As far as the artistic flavor is concerned, this movie is below average. Music is crappy. Lighting is crappy. No emphasis on anything. Horrible crap. Indescribable. Good enough for America's Funniest Video. And it's not even 90 minutes long. The writer failed to stretch the script.
KissEnglishPasto ........................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FL For dyed in the wool fans of European cinema, The Squid and the Whale, an independent production, Grand Prize winner at the "Sundance" Film Festival, has much more in common with films from the old continent than with those huge budget Hollywood productions. IMDb lists its budget as 1.5 Million, most certainly paltry, especially when compared to the 100 to 200 million dollar behemoths that abound in LA-LA-LAND! So if the European style is to your liking, we guarantee that "Squid" will truly enchant you! To justify my initial assertion, let's just analyze SQUID for a moment: A) No CGI effects, No car chases or crashes, and no 100 Decibel Explosions! B) SQUID is highly character-driven C) SQUID is very heavy on intense, highly focused dialog D) SQUID's characters have almost no physical , but engage in relentless psychological arm-wrestling! E) SQUID resorts to NO cinematic gimmicks of any kind, whatsoever! F) Considering that both Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney appear in SQUID, with its minuscule budget, it cannot be anything other than a TRUE labor of love! If the above list hits some of your cinematic hot buttons… You really MUST SEE Squid! If you are unphased…DON'T!!!!!…Simple as that!....8 STARS! ENJOY!/DISFRUTELA! Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most welcome!
Gabriel Baumbach's The Squid And The Whale is a film that's dripping with a veneer of intellectualism. A product of such masses of taste and culture, that it immediately feels obtrusive. It would be easy to receive the picture as a study of the intellectual, but this is merely a framework for some larger concepts.Baumbach borrows Wes Anderson's (specifically, The Royal Tennenbaums) quiet absurdity, and Harmony Korine's subtle indifference, to paint an intricate look at some very interesting characters. One can a find a greatly performed, fantastic cast here, with some sparkling chemistry, assisted in no small measure by the riveting, energetic script. The film uses its rather standard premise: a family separation, to examine the plight of the individual. Barnard is a stuffy, arrogant, self proclaimed intelligentsia who cannot peer beyond the strictures of his own ideas. His wife (whom I forget the name of at this juncture) is the opposite. Free spirited, anti-misanthropic, and commercially successful. Their children represent mixtures of themselves, caught in the middle between two often unbearable extremes. The people in this work all search for some form of substance- Eisenberg's character, for example- recognition from his father, intellectual equity, sexual perfection, and so on. One of my main complaints, however, is directed at the younger brother, who appears to be struck into an early version of some subverted adulthood. Many of his scenes seem slightly... how can one put it, strange and incomprehensible for the sake of it?Technically, the film is unimpressive, but not offensively so. Construction is pretty minimalist, with an attention to semi-long takes and theatrical whip pans. Nonetheless, the sequences are usually lit in a very warm, pleasant manner, illuminating some gorgeous sets and lovely colours. The era of 1986 is more or less useless, but appropriately subtle (no hideous references to the Human League or Ghostbusters.) The soundtrack, too, is damn great. Ultimately the film comes off as effortless: a confident, ionate portrayal of some very strong characters. Occasionally, the piece gets too caught up in them, discarding some of the ing roles for caricatures (proving the dismissive Barnard right in most cases, which strikes me as contradictory) and often rolling in too much of its own dry wit. Regardless, this is a solid picture, and one that captures many ambitious themes and ideas, galvanized by a fascinating series of characters.
