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1. ›A Ghost Story Movie Review/ Recenzja filmu A Ghost Story@kapitanrosomak764d

   Sad Movie make me cry or A Ghost Story.

   

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   You can tell a good movie by the fact that you can feel emotions and reflect after watching it.

   Loss, loneliness, a depressed state, helplessness are all elements that accompany people when they lose a loved one.

   A Ghost Story tries to show a time of loss, loneliness, depression and helplessness in an unconventional way.

   In a way that is not easy, especially since the movie does not want to be sugar-coated, it goes firmly into the emotional stage and stays there until the final sequence. The director focuses on a world where everything is slow, as slow as grief can be, the movie doesn't rush through scenes without bombarding the viewer with a million different things, but focuses on what is really important. The movie throws the viewer into a slow world where time plays a fundamental role in this work.

   I don't know why, reminds me of you.

   Not only the time aspect plays a big role here, but also the format in which it was shot: 4:3, cropped like vacation footage, so that the viewer can experience a private movie.

   As always, A24 knows how to spend money in a way that leaves the viewer satisfied, and here we get a movie that just goes to show that you don't need a gigantic budget to tell an interesting story.

   Starring Rooney Mara and Cassey Affleck A Ghost Story is not a horror movie, although the beginning may give such a vibe, we get an extremely well chosen apartment that grows more and more every minute to cause the worst pain a person can feel, the pain of existence in the last sequence.

   The work focuses on two characters where they live in a house, she wants something different, she wants the city, he wants to stay to focus on the music, he feels memories with this house and with her.

   When he chases her, she has to deal with it somehow, but the loss is different here because the ghost he appears in the form of a ghost to be by her side even though he knows he will never touch her again.

   

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   A Ghost Story may be ridiculous for some, since we see a character under a sheet with only eye holes throughout the movie. For others, it can be a very interesting look at loneliness. Not only the loneliness of life, but also the loneliness of death. It is a movie about the passing of time and the memory we strive for of those who have passed, about the unresolved issues on earth, and how sometimes everything can be changed by a word written on a piece of paper.

   I came across the movie by chance. While watching YouTube I came across a clip that someone made and there are sequences from the movie that fit perfectly with the music. After watching it, I still think that the song plus this movie was the best unofficial combination.

   As for the movie, you don't really get to see much dialog in it, it's more of an addition to the whole movie. For me it is one of the best movies, although I warn you it is slow. 9/10

   Sad Movie make me cry czyli A Ghost Story.

   

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   Dobre kino poznać można po tym, ze po seansie potrafimy odczuwać emocje i rozmyślać.

   Utrata, samotność, depresyjny stan, bezradność to elementy, które towarzysza ludziom kiedy tracą bliska osobę.

   A Ghost Story stara się pokazać czas utraty, samotności depresji i bezradności w nietuzinkowy sposób. W sposób, który nie jest łatwy tym bardziej, ze film nie chce być cukierkowy, wchodzi mocno w etap emocji i tam pozostaje aż do finałowej sekwencji. Rezyser skupia się na świecie gdzie jest powolny, tak jak bywa powolna żałoba, film nie spieszy się ze scenami nie bombarduje widza milionem różnych rzeczy, a skupia się na tym co jest naprawdę ważne. Film wrzuca widza w powolny świat, gdzie czas odgrywa fundamentalna stronę w tym dziele.

   Nie wiem czemu, mi przypomina Ciebie

   Nie tylko aspekt czasu tutaj odgrywa role duża, ale tez format w jakim jest nakręcony, 4:3 z czego jest on przycięty niczym nagranie z wakacji tak by widz mógł uświadczyć prywatnego filmu.

   https://youtu.be/c\_3NMtxeyfk?si=pzR4RYJvARgBEy-q

   Wytwórnia A24 jak zawsze potrafi wydać tak pieniądze by widz był zadowolony i tutaj dostajemy film, który tylko pokazuje, ze nie trzeba mieć gigantycznego budżetu by opowiedzieć ciekawa historie W rolach głównych zagrali Rooney Mara i Cassey Affleck A Ghost story nie jest horrorem, choć początek może nadać takiego klimatu to dostajemy niezwykle dobrze dobrana mieszkankę, która z każda minuta rośnie coraz bardziej by w ostatniej sekwencji spowodować najgorszy ból jaki może człowiek odczuć ból egzystencji.

   Dzieło skupia się na dwóch bohaterach, gdzie mieszkają w domu ona chce czegoś innego chce miasta on zaś chce zostać skupić się na muzyce, on odczuwa wspomnienia z tym domem i z nią. Kiedy On gonie Ona musi sobie jakoś poradzić z tym jednak strata bywa tutaj inna bo duch on zjawia sie pod postacią ducha by być przy niej choć wie, ze już nigdy nie dotknie jej.

   

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   a Ghost Story dla jednych może być śmieszny od przez cały film widzimy postać pod prześcieradłem który ma tylko otwory na oczy. Dla innych może być to bardzo ciekawe spojrzenie na samotność. Nie tylko samotność życia, ale i samotność śmierci. To film o przemijaniu i pamięci jaka dążymy tych co przemineli o nierozwiązanych sprawach na ziemi i tym, ze niekiedy wszystko może zmienić jedno słowo napisane na kartce.

   Film poznałem przez przypadek. Oglądając YouTube trafiłem na klip zrobiony przez kogoś i tam pojawiają się sekwencje z tego filmu idealnie komponując się z muzyka. Dalej uważam już po obejrzeniu, ze piosenka plus ten film to było najlepsze połączenie nie oficjalne.

   Co do filmu nie uświadczymy w nim wiele dialogów, są one bardziej dodatkiem do całego filmu. Dla mnie to jeden z najlepszych filmów, choć uprzedzam jest on wolny. 9/10

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2. ›A Ghost Story | People are ghost of themselves@jauregui981606d

   

   

   After a weird night's sleep on medication, I woke up very happy and energized enough to finally talk about A Ghost Story, one of my favorite movies of all time. At the time I was recommended this movie as if it was a horror movie, and while watching it I asked myself, 'if this movie is a horror movie, why does it make me cry so much', because obviously, it was not a horror movie, it is one of the best drama movies ever made, which obviously is not made for everyone, because more than once I recommended it to someone who told me they loved drama, and when they told me they tried to watch the movie they fell asleep.

   Natalia was one of those people, she told me that she had found the best cure for her insomnia with that movie, plus she wasn't going to watch Rooney Mara eat a pie for 5 minutes, she took it off as soon as she realized that. Poor ugly little thing. Which reminds me, I should do a review destroying Clueless.

   A Ghost Story is a movie that is going to tell many stories of ghosts made of white sheets that over time begin to color with the dirt that is in the world. We will experience many stages of grief when someone dies, that loss and that untouchable love that hurts a lot; there will also be a lot of talk about existence, although I say talk as a form of expression, because it is one of those movies that do not have many words and that only makes them more perfect than they really are. This is a film to watch in solitude, to cry without company, and to analyze all the emotions, sensations, and feelings that we can experience while watching and suffering.

   

   Después de una noche de sueño bien rara tomando medicamentos, desperté muy feliz y con la energía necesaria como para finalmente hablar de A Ghost Story, una de mis películas favoritas de todos los tiempos. En su momento me llegaron a recomendar esta película como si fuera de terror, y mientras la veía yo me preguntaba, 'si esta película es de terror, ¿por qué me hace llorar tanto?', porque obviamente no era una película de terror, es una película de las mejores películas de drama hechas en la vida, que obviamente no está hecha para todo mundo, porque más de una vez se la recomendé a alguien que me decía amar el drama, y cuando me decían que intentaron ver la película se durmieron.

   Natalia fue una de esas personas, me dijo que había encontrado la mejor cura para su insomnio con esa película, además de que no iba a ver a Rooney Mara comerse un pie por 5 minutos, que la quitó apenas se dio cuenta de eso. Pobre cosita fea. Cosa que me recuerda que debo hacer una reseña destruyendo Clueless.

   A Ghost Story es una película que va a contar muchas historias de fantasmas hechos de sábanas blancas que con el paso del tiempo comienzan a colorearse con la suciedad que hay en el mundo. Experimentaremos muchas etapas del duelo cuando alguien muere, esa pérdida y ese amor impalpable que duele mucho; también se hablará mucho de la existencia, aunque digo hablar como forma de expresión, porque es una de esas películas que no tienen muchas palabras y eso solo las hace más perfectas de lo que son en realidad. Esta es una película para ver en soledad, para llorarla sin compañía y analizar todas las emociones, sensaciones y sentimientos que podemos llegar a experimentar mientras la vemas y la sufrimos.

   

   
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   A24 is the producer of this movie, how can I not love it? That's it, that's the end of the review. The end. In 2017 when I saw the movie for the first time, and for the second time, and for the third time, I didn't review it, but the review I did was about the soundtrack, as Daniel Hart did one of the most depressing, desolate, and painful things you can ever do in life, and while checking his profile on Spotify I realized that he also did the soundtrack to The Green Knight, so I will see that movie too very soon, just for him.

   'I Get Overwhelmed' was the song I talked about the most in the soundtrack review, because it's a song that C (Casey Affleck) writes to M (Rooney Mara) and it's just devastating because even though the song is addressed to her, there's a line that says 'But we know 'You' is 'I'', and it is the final stab that we needed to suffer from desire, because at first, the song talks about her, and no, it tells the story of him, and for that revealing moment his death has already taken place, and she is listening to the song remembering the first time she heard it, and crying is the only option left.

   Yes, C dies in the first 15 minutes of the movie, and then we are going to accompany him as he accompanies M throughout his grieving process, and one of my favorite things is that when he turns down the opportunity to go to heaven, I think, to go to the afterlife and leave this worldly plane, he is not attached to M, he stays is in the house, in that building that meant so much to him, that was that place where everything was perfect, no matter that that perfection was breaking down little by little and was hurting both of them. Oh no, I'm already going to cry remembering the movie again, as soon as I finish this review I'm going to watch it for the seventh time to cry my eyes out.

   

   A24 es la productora de esta película, ¿cómo no voy a amarla? Ya, hasta aquí se acaba la reseña. Fin. En el 2017 cuando vi la película por primera vez, y por segunda vez, y por tercera vez, no le hice una reseña, si no que la reseña que hice fue sobre el soundtrack, pues Daniel Hart hizo una de las cosas más depresivas, desoladoras, y dolorosas que se pueden haber hecho en la vida, y mientras revisaba su perfil en Spotify me di cuenta de que también le hizo el soundtrack a The Green Knight, así que veré esa película también muy pronto, solo por él.

   'I Get Overwhelmed' fue la canción sobre la que más hablé en la reseña del soundtrack, porque es una canción que C (Casey Affleck) le escribe a M (Rooney Mara) y es simplemente devastante, pues aunque la canción va dirigida a ella, hay una linea que dice 'But we know 'You' is 'I'', y es la puñalada final que nos hacía falta para sufrir con ganas, porque en un principio la canción habla de ella, y no, relata es la historia de él, y para ese momento revelador ya su muerte a tenido lugar, y ella está escuchando la canción recordando la primera vez que la escuchó, y llorar es la única opción que queda.

   Sí, C muere en los primeros 15 minutos de la película y luego lo vamos a acompañar mientras él acompaña a M en todo su proceso de duelo, y una de mis cosas favoritas es que cuando él rechaza la oportunidad de irse al cielo, creo yo, de pasar al más allá y dejar este plano mundano, él no queda apegado a M, se queda es en la casa, en esa construcción que significó tanto para él, que fue ese lugar donde todo era perfecto, sin importar que esa perfección se estaba quebrando poco a poco y estaba lastimando a ambos. Ay no, ya voy a llora recordando la película de nuevo, apenas termine esta reseña iré a verla por septima vez para llorar con ganas.

   

   

   

   Then came one of my favorite moments of the movie, the eternal scene where we see Rooney Mara eating a pie that I think was an apple pie for many minutes. Remembering that scene does make me cry, that is her breaking point, her mother visited the house and left her the pie with a note, she arrives much later we presume from C's burial, reads the note, starts eating the pie in the kitchen, to end up sitting down eating compulsively.

   In tears I always think 'stop, don't go on, please, don't go on, don't eat anymore, stop', it is too horrible that scene or you live it with her and suffer, or you don't understand it and simply remove the film because you can't bear to see a simple heartbreaking scene where we see how someone repeats an action compulsively until a greater force, the impossibility for her body to keep repeating it, prevents her from continuing to repeat it.

   The ghost was always by her side, and he couldn't do anything, and although he doesn't show any emotion we know that he feels helpless and frustrated for not being able to help her, for not being able to tell her that he is by her side, that she doesn't have to suffer, that she is allowed to heal so she can go on with her life and that nothing can stop her, no matter if that means moving house, getting a new partner, and leaving everything they had behind, except for a note.

   

   Llegó uno de mis momentos favoritos de la película, la escena eterna donde veremos a Rooney Mara comer un pie que creo era de manzana por muchos minutos. Recordar esa escena sí me hace llorar, ese es el punto de quiebre de ella, la madre de ella visitó la casa y le dejó el pie con una nota, ella llega mucho tiempo después presumimos del entierro de C, lee la nota, comienza a comerse el pie de pieda en la cocina, para terminar sentada comiendo compulsivamente.

   Entre lágrimas siempre pienso 'detende, no sigas, por favor, no sigas, no comas más, para', es demasiado horrible esa escena, o la vives junto a ella y sufres, o no la entiendes y simplemente quitas la película porque no soportas ver una simple escena desgarradora donde vemos cómo alguien repita una acción compulsivamente hasta que una fuerza mayor, la imposibilidad de que su cuerpo la siga repitiendo, evita que continue repitiéndola.

   El fantasma siempre estuvo a su lado, y no pudo hacer nada, y aunque no demuestre alguna emoción sabemos que siente impotencia y frustración por no poder ayudarla, por no poder decirle que está junto a ella, que no tiene que sufrir, que se permita sanar para que pueda seguir con su vida y que nada la detenga, sin importar que eso signifique mudarse de casa, conseguir una nueva pareja, y dejar todo lo que tuvieron atrás, a excepción de una nota.

   

   

   

   I have many favorite scenes, and if it were up to me I would tell you about all of them, I put the whole movie in frames and make you watch it passing the images one by one without caring at all that it should not be like that. Anyway, that scene where they destroy the house and the ghost just stands there, on the rubble, watching how they start the construction of a building, we don't know how much time passes and the ghost is still there, until one day he just decides to jump from the top floor and when he falls there is only nothing left.

   At that time my brother I think he had a cursed partner, because it was a curse his presence, the truth, and I remember she made a comment saying that this was the most ridiculous movie she had ever seen, because how a ghost is going to commit suicide? and many other ridiculous things she ended up saying, and I was choking with laughter like you have no idea, because I mean, her favorite movies were the Fast and Furious, no one who has those movies among her favorites earns respect when talking about any other movie that requires more than two fingers in front and a lot of critical thinking to understand everything that is said between the lines.

   There you have the trailer if you haven't seen the movie, and if you have already seen it go see it again, because that's what I'm going to do next. Go see this movie that not only talks about grief and the physical loss of a loved one, but also about the often useless passing of human beings on this earth, and that in a certain sense nothing we do will matter in the future, so we can do whatever we want, for better or for worse.

   

   Tengo muchas escenas favoritas, y si fuera por mí les hablaría de todas, les pongo la película completa en fotogramas y hago que la vean pasando las imágenes una por una sin que me importe en absoludo que no debe ser así. En fin, esa escena donde destruyen la casa y simplemente el fantasma se queda ahí, sobre los escombros, viendo cómo comienzan la construcción de un edificio, no sabemos cuánto tiempo pasa y el fantasma sigue ahí, hasta que un día simplemente decide lanzarse de desde el último piso y al caer solo queda la sábada sin nada.

   En ese tiempo mi hermano creo que tenía una pareja maldita, porque era una maldición su presencia, la verdad, y recuerdo que ella hizo un comentario diciendo que esa era la película más ridícula que había visto, porque ¿cómo un fantasma se va a suicidar? y muchas otras ridiculeces que terminó diciendo, y yo por dentro me estaba ahogando de la risa como no tienen idea, porque o sea, sus películas favoritas eran las de Rápidos y Furiosos, nadie que tenga esas películas entre sus favoritas se gana el respeto al hablar de cualquier otra película que exige más de dos dedos de frente y mucho pensamiento crítico para entender todo lo que se dice entre lineas.

   Ahí tienen el trailer si no han visto la película, y si ya la vieron vayan a verla de nuevo, pues es lo que yo voy a hacer a continuación. Vayan a ver esta película que no solo habla sobre el duelo y la pérdida física de un ser amado, si no del, muchas veces, inservible paso del ser humano sobre esta tierra, y que en cierto sentido nada de lo que hagamos tendrá importancia en un futuro, por lo que podemos hacer lo que queramos, tanto para bien como para mal.

   

   

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3. ›A Ghost Story (Película): riesgo fílmico y profundidad filosófica.@cristiancaicedo2740d

   

   Una de las mejores películas del año 2017

   A Ghost Story es una película del director David Lowery, protagonizada por Cassey Affleck y Rooney Mara que, como lo indica el título, trata sobre la historia de un fantasma. ¿Ya? ¿eso es todo? en esencia sí, pero la forma en que la historia fue trabajada es lo que la convirtió en una de las mejores películas del 2017.

   

   El póster

   Comencemos con el fantasma. Tras morir en un accidente de tráfico, C (Affleck) se levanta de su camilla en el hospital y vuelve a casa convertido en fantasma. Sin embargo antes de salir del hospital, en una de las paredes se abre un portal con una luz intensa que sugiere el paso al otro mundo; pero el fantasma lo ignora, decidiendo quedarse atrapado en este. Este fantasma no es un espectro, o una versión tenue de sí mismo como Patrick Swayze en Ghost. No. La apariencia de Affleck es la del tradicional fantasma que hemos visto en los póster de la película: una sábana blanca, con dos círculos negros en el lugar de los ojos. A algunos puede parecerles un chiste, pero el comportamiento del fantasma, sus movimientos, las reacciones y ese semblante alicaído, provocan dolor y tristeza, mas no risas. ¿Por qué decidieron representar al fantasma de esa manera?¿Por qué consiguen un actor como Casey Affleck y lo cubren con una sabana la mayor parte de la película? propuestas arriesgadas que no siempre salen bien, pero que en este caso funcionan: al ver la apariencia neutral del fantasma, podemos concentrarnos más en las implicaciones emocionales y filosóficas de la historia.

   

   C y M

   Es una película lenta, con escenas alargadas al borde de lo aceptable y secuencias prolongadas sin ningún tipo de diálogo y casi ningún sonido de ambiente. Así que a algunos les puede parecer aburrida. Pero si logra soportarse la quietud de esas escenas y concentrarse en lo que se está tratando de contar con esas imágenes, resulta una experiencia enriquecedora. El fantasma de C queda atrapado en la casa que compartía con M (Rooney Mara), de la cual ella quería mudarse, pero él no porque decía que allí tenían historia. Mientras ella sigue allí después de su muerte, él intenta tocarla, acercarse a ella, consolarla. Pero cuando M se muda, el fantasma comienza a reaccionar violentamente contra los nuevos inquilinos, rompiendo platos hasta que finalmente consigue ahuyentarlos. Una cosa que me gustó mucho fue el manejo de la temporalidad después de la muerte. Hay secuencias en las que el fantasma realiza un movimiento pausado, pero el _tiempo de la realidad_ avanza a saltos que pueden ser de días, de estaciones, o incluso de años.

   

   Acompañando a M

   En principio estos saltos son siempre hacia el futuro. Está atrapado en una especie de bucle temporal, pero permanece siempre en el mismo lugar. _Vive_ allí hasta que la casa es demolida y sustituida por un edificio dentro de un paisaje urbano futurista, pero luego vuelve hasta la época en que la casa no existía. Incluso hay una escena en la que en uno de estos saltos, C puede verse a sí mismo, primero vivo y luego como fantasma dentro de la misma casa, con M. Otra cosa destacable es el contenido filosófico. Aunque en su mayoría carece de diálogo, en la cinta hay una escena en la que un personaje menor expone una teoría sobre la futilidad de la existencia y sobre su trascendencia. Expresa que hay cosas que nos trascienden, que sobreviven más allá de nosotros, pero que todo, absolutamente todo, en algún momento desaparecerá. Esa desaparición total no es apreciable dentro de la película porque pertenecería a un futuro muy lejano, pero esa trascendencia, la trasmisión de ideas, sí. M tenía la costumbre de, cada vez que se mudaba, dejar una nota oculta en algún lugar dentro de la casa; y cuando el fantasma de C _retrocede_ hasta lo que parece ser el siglo XVIII, vemos a una niña anotar algo en un papel y ocultarlo bajo una roca. La casa aún no había sido edificada. ¿Sugiere esto la reencarnación?

   

   Una excelente toma

   Como esa, muchas preguntas quedan sin respuesta ¿De dónde venía o hacia dónde iba C cuando tuvo el accidente? ¿quedó atrapado por el amor que aún le tenía a M? ¿o porque estaba ferrado a esa casa como el lugar en donde fue feliz mientras vivía?¿acaso permaneció atrapado porque deseaba saber qué había escrito M en el papel que ocultó? y finalmente, la duda más grande ¿qué decía este papel? sin embargo, como en la filosofía, lo verdaderamente importante es la capacidad de plantearse las preguntas, no tanto obtener las respuestas a las mismas. Por lo arriesgado de la propuesta, el tratamiento del tiempo, el tocar el tema de los fantasmas desde una perspectiva diferente y por la excelente fotografía que obtuvo el Premio correspondiente en el Festival de Sitges, le doy **6/10** a esta película que si bien me pareció innovadora y profunda, por momentos es algo confusa.

   Reseñado por @cristiancaicedo

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4. ›A Ghost Story | Una solitaria historia compartida@jauregui982742d

   

   

   A cualquier hora que una se despertara, una puerta se estaba cerrando

   Virginia Woolf

   

   Hablar de A Ghost Story para mí no es fácil, y más que hacer una crítica a la película o al soundtrack, del que también hablaré, si no que voy a escribir sobre lo que sentí y lo mucho que lloré con este drama, que por ser una película lenta no deja de gustarme sin importar cuantas veces me decida a verla cuando quiero llorar.

   Escribo mientras escucho el soundtrack, hecho por Daniel Hart , once piezas que te sumergen en la desolación, desesperación, ansiedad, depresión, crean un vació en ti que solo llenas cuando desahogas como tu prefieras esos sentimientos que este mundo nos obliga a reprimir y nos enferman de manera insospechadas hasta que es muy tarde.

   

   Casey Affleck y Rooney Mara son la pareja perfecta imperfecta hasta el accidente sucede y el sufrimiento se entremezcla con nosotros, el soundtrack, y el fantasma que en su blanco exterior gracias a la música nos transmite cosas que un ser vivo no es capaz, aunque esto pasa gracias a que su vida no solo queda ahí, si no que continúa casi hasta la eternidad en un bucle que no se sabe si realmente logró romper.

   I Get Overwhelmed como pieza principal destroza cada sentimiento de estabilidad emocional que creías tener, te deja convertido en polvo, y sin saber por qué, eres feliz por eso, aunque si lo piensas un poco notarás que era lo que necesitabas sin saberlo. Es una canción que puede ser tomada como la historia de una pareja destinada al fracaso, en proceso de romperse, que no sabe si debe seguir o no estando unida, y que sufre sin importar qué.

   

   Sufro mucho al ver la película, que es menos de lo que quisiera, pero no importa porque hay días en que escucho el soundtrack una y otra vez y las escenas se suceden una y otra vez en mi mente, el sufrimiento silencioso de la película se instala en mí y solo a través de eso puedo llegar a descansar de la tormenta eterna que suele haber en mi interior.

   

   El soundtrack está compuesto por las siguientes canciones:

   1. Whatever Hour You Woke
   2. Little Notes
   3. One Door Closes
   4. Post Pie
   5. Gentleman Caller
   6. I Get Overwhelmed (por Dark Rooms)
   7. The Secret In the Wall
   8. Viventes Enim
   9. Sciunt Se Esse Mortui
   10. Thesaurus Tuus
   11. History

   

   A continuación les dejo el trailer de la película y en vez de ser todo el soundtrack, les dejaré la canción ''I Get Overwhelmed, que es mi favorita sin importar que ame las demás de igual forma.

   

   

   

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5. ›'A Ghost Story' Review: A beautiful film; and a new personal favourite@namiks3090d

   

   I closely follow the works of the production studio A24. It's a studio I trust to help create awareness of films that are iconic; groundbreaking; riddled with dedication; genuine art. Their portfolio contains some of my favourite films within the last few years: Moonlight, Ex Machina, Swiss Army Man, The Witch, It Comes At Night, and now A Ghost Story.

   I had heard of A Ghost Story back when it was getting a little marketing before its release, although I never really checked out the trailers, cast, or anything more than its base story. I didn't read any reviews once it came out, and I am certain that it made the experience that much better, having gone in almost blind. This is going to be a tough one...

   A Ghost Story is filmed in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio; a small box that's more portrait than widescreen 16:9. It holds a more compact viewing experience, with less being more coming into play. Its budget was a tiny $100k, which is never evident throughout the film. It's incredibly impressive to look back at what was achieved with such a small amount of money.

   

   With very little dialogue throughout the film, it focuses on visual storytelling: C (Casey Affleck) is killed outside of the house of his and his lover's in a car accident. Waking up as a ghost, he isn't ready to pass into the light, and returns from the hospital to their house, and he simply watches time go by. He watches as the love of his life struggles to continue; as she decides to finally attempt to move on and move out, leaving his ghost behind at the house that he loved. But not before leaving a small note within a crack in the wall. Outside of flashbacks, this is the last we see of M (Rooney Mara) in the film.

   New residents come and go, and he tampers with their belongings out of anger and fear of intrusion. This is his house. He isn't letting go. He's clinging to the past, and desperate to get to that small note in the wall. As he scratches away as time passes and things change around him, he never seems to get closer to the note. His existence is simply a flash of light throughout time; everything passes by so quickly.

   

   For the most part, we see C's ghost just observing. Watching, haunting, refusing to pass on. He's refusing to go on without M; and stays at the house's location as it's demolished, replaced by offices and eventually part of a futuristic city, just waiting for M to arrive; she doesn't.

   After continuous lifetimes, as C is stuck in a loop, he finally obtains the note, which results in his immediate disappearance; he's accepted his fate. He's passing on. It's such a simple ending, but it's so heartwarming to see. We never find out what was on the note--Rooney Mara actually wrote something personal on that note for when the house is demolished, but even she claims to have forgotten what it said--but we know that C is finally content. We've watched him linger in the background for generations as time went on without him, almost in silence, just letting the beautiful cinematography take us along the ride.

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6. ›"A Ghost Story" - masterpiece! - movie review@godflesh3165d

   

   I know people who don't tolerate empty spaces - when a box in their room is released, they immediately fill it with a new item - whether it will be the perfume, so far sitting on the bathroom shelf, or a new book, it does not matter. Would we go anywhere without our own? Without taking a picture, neither a car nor an inheritance ring? Unless we have projected through our subjects, we have neither a past nor a future - we have not accumulated, exchanged, and bequeaths. I own, therefore I am meaningful. I don't say this with reproaches to the economic system or human psychology. We are what we are. But these fetishes must be approached with cheerful distrust, because, as I recently read by Alejandro Jodorowsky, when the stars are extinguished, "nothing belongs to us." Probably even our own shoes would leave us if they had the ability.

   This is one of the themes that "A Ghost Story" develops, without necessarily leading - our painful commitment to the material world. Painful because we really suffer when we divide ourselves with our own possession. Every separation is torture - it forcibly pulls us out of the world. "As soon as I run my favorite jeans, I'll probably have to say goodbye to my friends someday, and that will make my life heavy and cold." This is the human condition - we are blessed in a cradle, and our lap fall all our values ​​one by one. In some unnatural abyss. "A Ghost Story" accumulates exponentially the sense of loss, just as no movie has ever done. He gives the viewer this emotion and, in his quiet sadness, in his modest dialogue, in his wonderful music and his blunted sleeping colors, turns into an escalating wail, unleashed powerfully to the stars. Where are all our dead.

   The film crystallizes from a real-life story by director David Lowery's life - moving them with his wife from one home to another. Once they leave, he realizes that if you are strongly attached to a house, you can suffer for it intensively and for a long time. And that pain is visualized in the movie.

   Casey Affleck, photo by Bret Curry

   The heroes of Runni Mara and Casey Affleck are two young people who live together (and are in the process of being out). If you have experienced it with another person, you can not mistake the emotion between them, it is one thing: love. They touch in a way that excites and excites. One of the long-lasting and stretching scenes that are emblematic of the film is precisely the two of them in bed. But at one point, far from nothing, he crashes and she remains alone. He also remains alone - to walk around the house as a ghost, covered with a sheet of bedding from the hospital. The symbol is concrete and spectacular, there is nothing ridiculous in the decision to depict so "childish and animated". A sheet underneath it is dead, no one sees it (except for another ghost with a sheet that roams across the house). Casey Affleck is the liveliest dead I've ever seen on the screen. His movements are expressive, human and moving. (Well, perhaps Daniel Radcliffe competes with him in "Swiss Army Man," but in a more comical lightweight context).

   It's been hundreds of years. Rooney's georigine leaves, but the specter has unfinished work (as always in stories of ghosts, but this time "unfinished work" works) and that's why it remains. The house changes different tenants, and the scenes we are familiar with them determine their function of simply the Others. They are not heroes, the only hero he is, he and he is the whole movie (and in my opinion, a better translation would be "The Story of the Ghost"). Among these episodic appearances we have a magnificent scene with young people gathered for a party. A male (in the role of Will Oldham), sets a monologue for the end of the world and the futility of human life in a way that invites the appearance of Rose Cole from True Detective. In fact, the absolute best of the scene is its end, which is an intelligent and airy counterpoint to everything the Man has said. This moment tells the viewer that he is not watching a movie that aims to take our faith in life and suppress us. Exactly the opposite. This movie treats us from our own fears. From the Internet I read reviews - reviewers compare the film to Tarkovsky's style. For me the association is questionable, but one thing worth mentioning. Tarkovsky, when asked what the meaning of art is, says: "To prepare the man for death." Words that really touched me.

   David Lowery wrote and directed, and Rooney Mara plays a grieving widow.

   As I have already written, one is in a constant state of accumulation of possessions and their subsequent loss. It is not just about material things. We lose constantly and imperceptibly memories, illusions, opportunities. We lose whole life within the one we have perceived as ours. The ordered perspectives stand in us like matrixes that we never take out. The last and the greatest we divide with is our own life. If art is the arena to which provoking questions are asked, if it has the purpose of enriching our sensitivity and making it transparent and immediate to us, then it is logical that it is also his task to tell us exactly what we want the least to say, "Yes, you will die. And you have to learn how to get there. "

   "A Ghost Story" is divided into two parts - before Rooney Mara's heroine leaves the house after leaving. The first part prepares us for the second part - the loss of one person is the threshold for the loss of the whole world. The first part of the film is romantic and personal. It's for two people. But then the film loses one character to enhance the isolation of the other. Begin the odious and existential search for life despite death. After the 47th minute of the movie (approximately right in the middle) Rooney leaves and then the Spirit dares to roam under an open sky. His loneliness is devastating, especially in the scenes where he is back in the house. The white sheet on it is a ball to the viewer: what if you are yourself? What questions do you ask when you die?

   Time is an issue that has recently been over and over again by the big productions ("Interstellar", "First Contact"). A curious technical detail about the production of the film is that, in order to be stylistically bound by the Spirit, the film team shoots all the scenes with it at 33 frames per second. All other characters are shot with 24. For example, two temporal surfaces are superimposed over one another in a single frame: in the frames in which Rooney and the Spirit are together, it is shot with 24 frames, and it with 33. Technical and ideologically they operate in different time spaces. Effectively, right?

   

   An additional circumstance makes the stay of Casey's hero in the special lymph. He is a musician. The creators are special in wanting to leave a trace much more insistent than other people. Not that I want to say that it is more inappropriate for them to be dead, but there are still more questions. Because: what is your creator if you have not left a trail? Listen to the song Casey puts on Rooney here.

   Although the film is about Spirit, it is not about science-fiction or horror. This is a drama. For some lighter than I present with this text, but certainly drama. If you know what a loss is (and who does not know?), You will weep. When you see the beautiful green grass and the blue-and-orange sky over it, and the sheet shading like an altar, you will weep. Not to mention how you will weep when hidden fingers with a desperate urge to peel the plaster to draw a sheet of paper from there. "A Ghost Story" begins with a quotation from Virginia Woolf's novel. The quote states that at any moment you wake up, a door closed.

   What's on the other side? When are we awake?

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7. ›A Ghost Story (2017)@showflix3198d

   

   
   
   Broadly speaking, 'A Ghost Story' explores the themes of human existence and its relative position against time. A very human ghost movie.
   If ghosts can make movies, I imagine the movie will be like this. A Ghost Story is their answer to a conventional haunted-house horror movie. What if sightings or self-propelled goods in haunted houses are caused more than those who want to harass us? What if this is not just a mischievous act? What if it turns out they have motives that are not only rational but also melancholy? We can not say that ghosts have no feelings. Who knows.
   
   

   

   
   I became rambunctious. But A Ghost Story indeed raised the supernatural story from the point of view that we rarely encounter. The film takes perspective from the ghost. A wistful ghost. A ghost who can not move-on , then haunts the house where he and his wife lived during their lifetime. He was silent throughout the film. It's occasionally disturbing, but he's just a passive observer trying to find something. What is that? He was not sure at first. Therefore, this film is not a horror movie at all, rather than a lilting drama movie but also very deep. Broadly speaking, A Ghost Story explores the themes of human existence and its position relative to time. A very human ghost movie.
   
   As far as I know, this is also the first serious film featuring ghosts in a ridiculous form. So true. You'll see the best actor Oscar last year, Casey Affleck spent most of the movie's duration in a ghostly costume made out of bed sheets that were hammered for the eye (though I can not be sure, because anyone can wear a bedspread costume and we will not notice the difference) AND nominees twice the best actress Oscar, Rooney Mara takes pie for 5 minutes, in real time , in a film that becomes a strong candidate as the best movie of the year. My version.
   
   The ghost costume is ridiculous, but this is essential, I think. By locking Affleck (or anyone else) behind a bed sheet, we are "forced" to understand what he feels, unattached to his actor's expression. This fits perfectly with his subtle storytelling; what the bed sheets feel is what we think she feels. The sheets seemed to be the avatar of our feelings. The bedding experience becomes a personal experience.
   
   The maker is David Lowery , director who is more familiar with indie films but last year successfully tried his luck in the blockbuster through Pete's Dragon . Like his last movie, Is not Them Bodies Saint , Lowery is referring to Terence Malick's narrative style. A Ghost Story fits as Malick's Tree of Life counterpart, as he intends to capture the grand scheme of life through a little life story in it, or in this case: death. When you've adapted to the very slow path, you will feel its emotional and spiritual outpouring. I think it will not be difficult, because this movie is about love and loss; everyone has lost someone / something they really love is not it?
   
   Affleck and Mara play C and M, a couple who live in a worn out house in a quiet suburb. At night, they hear strange noises. M wants to move house, while C likes to the current house. They may be in conflict, but while sleeping still embrace intimately. Before getting to know them any closer, one morning C died behind the wheel, not far from home.
   
   

   

   
   Once identified in the hospital by M, we see C lying stiff. The camera shoots it statically for a long time. But just before you will throw the screen out of annoyance, this bedspread gets up. Unwittingly, he walked and walked home. He saw M who was grieving hard to eat the pie in another unbroken static spotlight (for 5 minutes, I remind you again). The sheets tried to touch her, but M did not feel it.
   
   Of course, eventually M move-on , then move house. But the sheets stayed, while the inhabitants came and went, starting from a Latino family with two children to a crazy old teenage party. He became a curious soul, looking for something tucked behind the wall of the house. Time went quickly, but the bedspread was still trapped there, even until the house was destroyed and changed into a luxury apartment.
   
   

   

   
   This film plays with our perception of time. C is dead; the bed sheet is no longer a human but a ghost. Ghosts are not bound by time rules. Lowery illustrates that their perceptions of time are different from ours. He uses a sudden cut , does not explain clearly how long the time passes instead of leaving it to us to digest it ourselves. For the sheets, some short moments seemed long, while some long moments seemed to last for a while. He sees every second M feeding on pie (for 5 minutes, why am I constantly discussing this?), While at one point later when he witnessed the history of his house, it all happened in seconds. In my opinion, the bed linen only sees what is important to him.
   
   There was a fascinating monologue from a teenager-old-mad-drunken party ( Will Oldham ) to his friends who were also heard by the sheets. Initially appreciate the art, the old teenagers even ramble about the place of humans in the course of time. When man dies, he leaves work, but life goes on. Our love, our loss, our lives are nothing ahead of time. However, they are also precious moments. You may think what this philosophical nonsense is, but A Ghost Story does not feel pretentious for not feeding us with philosophy. This movie just tells us to feel. In one scene, the bed sheet sees the ghost of a neighbor (who is also in the form of a bed sheet) ending his journey as he realizes his essence.
   
   
   It's amazing how this simple movie could have such an emotional impact. Penggarapannya minimalist with a simple acting as well, but none of the scene seemed to be wasted. Lowery reportedly only do the filming process for 19 days only. He uses an almost square ratio of 1.33: 1 and then adds a round side instead of sharp, giving the impression that we are observers. This made her more intimate. The film lacks dialogue and almost no explicit conflict, but brilliantly explores the theme. Exposition at the beginning when M chatting with C about his childhood, it has a big role to answer the ending that I dare not reveal here, which I just found while watching both times.
   
   A Ghost Story is an odd movie that seems to want to test your patience, but do not let that fact keep you from watching it. It also states that the film is very original. Lowery has just presented something big that can be summed up by a movie of something a little bit.
   
   

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