This is a film that you might not need go to the theater to see. Bliss boasts admirable technical elements, including well-conceived production design and cinematography that expertly delineate the two very different worlds the main characters inhabit. The ending is not for everyone, it’s one of those ones where you like it or you hate.
It is an decent film and not a total waste of time. In the press notes for his new film Bliss, writer-director Mike Cahill calls it a love story and an adventure story and a father-daughter story. So Rampart, is it some great character study and powerful film? Maybe to some but not really.
They did a pretty good job then cause those parts while confusing are very nice to look at. They do some interesting angles and shots that you can probably take to cover up some of the wandering parts of the script to keep you interested. The heavy contrast and blown out look to the film to really make this LA look hot and bothered. The director Oren Moverman does a pretty decent job directing though and what really shines is Bobby Bukowski on Cinematography. Her character is there to just be mean to adults the whole time.There are a lot of good actors in this that have some good moments on screen that really just leads to them telling the main character that he’s a bad person and why hasn’t he changed. Brie Larson gives a pretty standard performance as the despondent and angry for no good reason teenage daughter. While that can be interesting after so long it gets a bit tiresome even though acting is great. You’re basically watch Harrelson play a man falling apart for two hours. Woody Harrelson gives a good performance in this, while on screen he stays captivating to watch even though some of the directions of the plot leave much to be desired. While in pursuit of a suspect Brown is caught on tape beating a suspect which puts him in the crosshairs of the DA’s office who in the process of dealing with other scandals affecting the LAPD. He tries hard to keep his whole family together so he spend time with his children. He has a complicated home life, living with two sisters who he has had a child with each and is divorced from both. He has his style of justice that he enforces on the streets.
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Woody Harrelson plays Officer Dave Brown, a vietnam vet who’s been with the force for over 20 plus years. A character study of a hard to find redeemable police officer in the late 90s the film tries to show a fully realized portrait of middle age man as he starting to unravel as times change. Named after the police division Rampart is another one of these types of films. A lot of times the story tellers are trying show an in depth or humanized side of the men and women that worked there in the 80s and 90s. The boss wants to see him, right away he crushes a pill into snortable form before answering the summons.Over the last decade there have been a lot of stories told about the police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in film and television. He’s been feigning various physical injuries, it appears, and has run out of opioid refills (as he’s told by an impatient pharmacist). His daughter, Emily (Nesta Cooper), is inviting him to her graduation, which he’s reluctant to attend. This by itself is not a harbinger of good news, nor is it particularly subtle: As becomes clear very quickly, Greg is malfunctioning. Cahill from his own screenplay, the Amazon Original “Bliss” stars Owen Wilson as Greg Wittle, an employee of a company called Technical Difficulties (“We’re sorry you’re having technical difficulties,” hundreds of employees recite into hundreds of phones). It was everything “Bliss” is not.ĭirected by Mr. It was off-handedly fantastic, thus plausible. Only tangentially did it involve an alternative planet, a parallel reality and a correctable past. Writer-directorMike Cahill’s 2011 “Another Earth” was a tantalizing feature, in large part because its sci-fi elements orbited at an oblique angle: The heart of the story was recklessness, tragedy and a young woman’s need for redemption.