The Wind Will Carry Us

I feel that The Wind Will Carry Us was most like the type of movie that I was expecting to see in a course focused on International Cinema. I felt like I had viewed a film completely different from a normal Hollywood film. This film has very many dimensions, both local and global elements. I think this is important because it allows the viewer to be exposed to the culture while not being lost on the meaning. The reason this movie has received good reviews is for this reason and because of the fact that it is so extremely different from traditional Hollywood films in what it relies on to make its points. It is almost impossible to argue that this movie is entertaining, the viewer is clearly forced to extract the meaning of the film. Hollywood films make all their points with fast action and dialogue. In this film there is a theme of death and of waiting. The viewer is forced to wait for things to happen, just like the characters are forced to wait for the death of the woman so that they can do what they set out to. By having to wait by viewing boring everyday scenes, the viewer is allowed to truly contemplate death and what message is being portrayed. I think that this film is more real than ones we have watched, in life we spend a great amount of time waiting for things to happen. Movies usually skip the waiting to avoid boring the viewer, while this may entertain it greatly sacrifices true realism, that is what it would really feel like to be in the situation of the characters. If the viewer can force himself to wait through the movie he can extract the importance of it and leave enlightened.