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44 Inch Chest

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Based upon the trailer, Dan Landin & Co.'s work on 44 Inch Chest looks great! I plan to see it as soon as possible. Does it all look as killer as the trailer?

The lighting style and saturation level are very noir; a look that I am very much into these days. What interests me most is he fact that they took subject matter that would typically be considered very cold, and rendered it in warm tones. I'm wondering if this is to reflect that this is dirty business, to represent the idea that the motivation behind it all comes from a place of warm feelings betrayed, or if it is simply a kind of homage to Gordon Willis? Other?
 
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72 views... No opinions or obsrvations? There was a great cast on this. I haven't been able to find a copy locally. Did this film not get wide distribution in the U.S.?
 
I do not think it got much distribution over here. I remember seeing a trailer online and being excited for it ... and not hearing about it again until it showed up on itunes last week. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet though.
 
I just watched it last night. It is one of those small scope, very theatrical feeling pictures. By that I mean it is a smaller cast, and shot on just a couple sets of a soundstage. There is a heightened reality.

Now that I've seen it, the warm tones do seem to represent the character's warm feelings. He's mourning the end of his marriage whose demise was brought on, in his eyes, because he "Loved too much." It might just be because he was a hard man, a brutal man... So the film makers chose warm tones that to me seem to elicit the feeling that this man is drowning in a sea of piss. It's not brownish warm so much as it is very yellow/green and sodium vapor orange.

There is Winstone's character, and his wife's lover in a run down old house. The other characters can easily be seen as parts of Winstone's own psyche, confronting him, and challenging him as to what it means to love, commit, be a husband and a man.

All of the performances are solid and entertaining. Hurt's Old Man Peanut is a hillarious bastard.

Many iTunes would be critics didn't take satisfaction in the ending, but it seems the only logical way for the story to unfold.

I reccomend it.
 
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