Adam Sandler is great, but Uncut Gems feels like a bogus melodrama.
The film is shot in a style reminiscent of Chinese inkbrush painting, with sweeping whites and blacks set against gray backdrops of mist, rock, and steel. And it starts off with quiet, meditative sequences that emphasize natural elements—the small spray of water off a weapon in the rain, the shudder of a bamboo pole vibrating upon impact—but eventually gives way to intense, intricate, gruesome scenes of combat.
The picture has still not appeared anywhere, so that technical issue was either Zhang’s editor accidentally hitting “delete” on the Final Cut Pro file, or the Chinese censors being royally pissed. Part of me wishes there were more of an uproar about this stateside, where we still claim to consider censorship a bad thing. But I also can’t exactly call Zhang Yimou a repressed artist because while all this is going on he also. But maybe that’s the cost of getting his movie released eventually. Either way, Zhang’s career is one of the most fascinating, complicated in cinema history, and I don’t understand why everyone else is not obsessed with him.
Alison and Karen, you discussed movies that were undone by a single misstep, or were somehow redeemed by one notable element. The one in the former category that I can’t shake is Edward Norton’s, an impeccably produced, years-in-the-making passion project that mostly falls apart because of—well, because of Edward Norton’s performance, frankly, which ironically is the reason the movie exists in the first place.
on how Norton has made a career out of playing parts like this was excellent, and I can’t improve on your description of his performance in: “In the movie, Lionel becomes someone who succeeds despite his Tourette’s syndrome, which is realized only as a set of external markers, with Norton also sanding away a lot of the weirder, more distinctive aspects of the character’s personality.
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