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By: Bil

Bil — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:12:00 +0000

Hi smarten Up. It seems you did not enjoy this movie. Well, I enjoyed it, and for many reasons.
See? It is actually possible.
I found it oppressing and gruesome, as well as profound and poetic.
The raw image and sound was quite delicious too. The “submerged” effect with these cameras… Hmmm, I like it.
It is water, iron, wood and blood. What did you expect? Some of these THX effects or something?
I’m not an “indie” culture consumer, usually. It may be possible that anything calling itself “indie” is full of it.

But I know the sea, I know the fishermen. And in this movie, i find them again. True, terrifying and powerfull. Thats how Leviathan felt to me.
I would recommand this movie to everyone who can stop thinking about the subject for an hour and a half in order to enter a vivid cinematographic universe, to anyone who is looking for a direct experience. May be confusing at first, I have to admit it. But the beauty is there.

By: Smarten_Up

Smarten_Up — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:07:00 +0000

Sorry but this filmmaker is full of it. The film is a waste of our good time, better spent sleeping than watching…

Just because you are a Harvard professor and go out to sea and get wet and bumped around does NOT make your footage worth seeing. A real tough editing is needed here, such as when I ran this dvd at quadruple fast forward, reducing it to just a few minutes. Even then, some scenes should be deleted.

Were they really surprised that all flesh food on the plate comes at a high price? Do all these film reviewers and their academic buddies never think about food, until they find themselves on the deck of a trawler? Hey !–HEY! that is real life–and real DEATH, get it Prof??

Eat some vegetables if you are so guilty, but keep this stuff as a home movie; “What I Did on My Sabbatical…”

Sound was unhearable, in fact frustrating, more informative as silent on fast forward! And that essay by Cyril Neyrat? Not only must it have been poorly translated, it was written in garbage-academese…sincerely hope no one got tenure for that!