Rachael MurphyWater For Elephants
May 9th 2011 17:10
If I am completely honest(and I rarely am) I did not expect much from this movie. I am somewhat cynical of movies with sparkly trailers and actors from the latest teen hit and Water For Elephants has both of those things.
In a way that was a good thing because high expectations are often disappointed but low ones can often result in pleasent surprise. This was one such occasion.
There is nothing complex about this movie. It is about a young man, Jacob(Robert Pattinson) who is sure of how his life will go until everything he imagined is upended. This leads him onto a train, into a life in the circus and into the affection of Marlena (Reese Witherspoon) whom he cannot have . I think that it what I liked about it. The boy meets unattainable girl element to the whole thing is nothing new but the setting most definitely is. The characters could fit into a million movie sinarios but the world that is built around them really is something to look at.
The narrative is striaght forward as I have said, there is no difficulty telling who is good and who is bad and who may be a little of both. This is not so harmful as it might seem as the whole thing is kinda lovely and dazzles you, not with glitz but with a homely glow. You feel comfortable in this movie.
The characters, however, are sadly lacking. You get who they are and what they stand for but you know so little about them that there is not a lot of time to care. The evil of one character, August (Christoph Waltz, who is as awesome in this as in Inglourious Basterds) is based on the harm he does to the others but you never see it expect for breif unspectacular glismps. You don't care about the people he is hurting, enough to really condemn him for it. I mean, you know he is the bad guy and that you are supposed to hate him but for most of the movie you don't really.
I think this might be one for the girls. I did enjoy it but it is a three star movie and nothing to write home about. If you bring you boyfriend he will just moan and you won't even get to enjoy the good bits.
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