Even Insomniacs Can Have Nightmares
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
It is a matter of perspective. A crude home movie like “Paranormal Activity” or “The Blair Witch Project” tucked inside a glossy Hollywood film like “The Fourth Kind” doesn’t convey the same illusion of authenticity as it might on its own. And suspending your own disbelief for a cheap thrill is what it’s all about.
The raw, quasi-documentary footage of people recalling their abduction by aliens — or so they claim — in “The Fourth Kind” feels like just another cinematic trick. Because the images fuzz at the critical moment of contact between human and alien, it’s a trick that doesn’t deliver. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (2924 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 novembre 2009