masterpieces

Ambitious cinema provoking change. This blog was also derived from the overall reviewing of Aronofsky's The Fountain and the documentary The 11th Hour. There is an issue that needs to be reconstructed in art criticism, especially in cinema.

Overall, The Fountain received an average review grade of C+, 11th hour received a B-. For the 11th Hour, many reviewers and general moviegoers compared it to An Inconvenient Truth, discrediting it for its similarity to the latter. I understand as humans, we can only articulate what we have experienced. We can only reference.

In art criticism, this manifests in reviews that are many times misinterpretive of the work's true purpose. If you've read some of my earlier writing, I'm for critical review, but it needs to be recontextualized. What is not understood is that films such as The Fountain and 11th Hour are flawed as individual works (although I believe Aronofksy's The Fountain was a masterstroke). But, An Inconvenient Truth and 11th Hour are one in the same. They are for the same change, thus they are brother works, not segmented. Such films are many times invalidated for being too ambitious, for being existentially motivated. Yet I do not believe in art without passion, purpose or ambition. We must remember that these are not individual works, but are part of the Great Work.

As a side note, observe in Sunshine the photo of the Icarus 1 in comparison to the Icarus 2... The members of Icarus 1 wore Hawaii t-shirts and held up their national flags. In contrast, the Icarus 2 carried no such banners, the members clothed in Christmas frock.