some films catch you off guard, where you are taken to completely a new world while you are still maintaining a good contact with the film you are watching. this does not mean your concentration deters away from the film, but rather, the film strikes you hard and you can't help wandering for a good minute or two, because unexpectedly, you feel the film completely with all your senses.
and hedwig transports me to the heartfelt experience.
not being merely contented with my own emotional involvement, the jolly feeling also comes in noticing how this film has set a certain barrier on making a good rock-opera film.
there's a struggling and to some extent painful journey the main character goes through in his life before coming to his own terms as a singer, a musician, or greater, an artist. this journey then is translated on the words and tunes, to be sung out, played, or greater, appreciated. perhaps the latter might come later towards the end of this artist's life, because a biopic does not befriend young rising stars after all.
but the main thing a rock-opera film should possess apart from continuous rock songs filling in throughout the scenes is the honesty, and consistency.
alright, that's already two elements, but they can't be more inseparable from one another.
hedwig excels in frankly telling us the journey of his life through the lyrics in all the original songs being sung out in the film, making us feeling like witnessing directly his presence in front of our eyes. if such an honesty comes out with catchy tunes enable us to sing along, that's purely a bonus in store. yet, a greater effect of these unpretentiousness results in a certain constancy maintaining the rock-and-roll atmosphere, as perhaps initially intended by the filmmakers themselves. never a scene slips out of tunes leaving us unhooked, and never a moment shies away out of focus from putting the spotlight on hedwig and his angry inch.
to have a film that is brutally honest and lyrical at the same time, one can only be thankful and be more than ready to have its own heart wrenched over this meaningful film.
4 comments:
makasih val... aku juga suka nauval.blogspot... jadi panduan nyari pilem bagus...pustaka media rencananya juga bikin review media (buku komik film musik). jadi nantikan daku yang akan sering2 mampir, liat contekan film bagus... hehehehe salam buat patung singanya.... btw. yang di atas tu film indy, ya? did you watch it on DVD?
makasih juga dah mampir, esso.
kalo nyari panduan film bagus, langsung ke IMDB.com aja, karena disini ngga cuman yang bagus aja yang dibahas, karena kadang film jelek juga perlu buat dicela :)
hedwig bisa dibilang film independen, semangatnya independen, nyari dvd nya yang ga independen karena ini pinjeman pacar :D
wowwwwwwww.... you have the dvd there??? :) i dunno that they have it as movie.... :)
i watched the play a few years back... i think by those casts in the movie 'cuz f/ the pix you have, they look like the same people... it was AWESOME!!!! :D
'ka,
lucky you! :)
i guess john cameron mitchell was on the play as well, or he just bought the rights?
anyway, he excels as the director and the actor here. talk about life imitates art ;)
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