Movie: From Beginning to End
Director: Aluizio Abranches
Release: 2009
'From Beginning to End' reminds me of pure love and the existence of it beyond boundaries or limits. It deals with taboos in the most approachable manner - and in a manner which is most often approached.
The storyline is easy to follow, yet the ideas are complicated as are the characters. There's a brilliance in acting and the director focuses on silences and afterthoughts which I found to be the most brilliant addition of the film. Each emotion is so visibly portrayed in subtle shots and visions - there's a strong narrative that runs solely on these shots. The shots focus on characters in situations of self-reflection and honest outward projection of emotion, which not only builds the storyline, but also guides the viewer into understanding.
What is to be applauded is also the actors, the reaching out, the portrayal, the experimentation and the imbibing of what has been continually enforced as inappropriate and taboo. How can someone understand, imagine and portray an incestual lover, when they very likely have grown up completely rejecting the idea. Can you imagine portraying something you have been taught to reject even as a thought or an idea?
I'd say the film's brilliance lies in it's simplicity - the storyline, the collection, the silences and the emotions - so raw, so honest and so knowingly alien, and so complex in that turn. There's beauty in the film, in the innocence of it, in it's bravery and in it's clubbing of heteronormative storylines into deviant alternatives.
It's inspiring and I would definitely want to make similar movies, with similar treatment of the shots. There's so much radical genius involved.
Release: 2009
'From Beginning to End' reminds me of pure love and the existence of it beyond boundaries or limits. It deals with taboos in the most approachable manner - and in a manner which is most often approached.
What is to be applauded is also the actors, the reaching out, the portrayal, the experimentation and the imbibing of what has been continually enforced as inappropriate and taboo. How can someone understand, imagine and portray an incestual lover, when they very likely have grown up completely rejecting the idea. Can you imagine portraying something you have been taught to reject even as a thought or an idea?
I'd say the film's brilliance lies in it's simplicity - the storyline, the collection, the silences and the emotions - so raw, so honest and so knowingly alien, and so complex in that turn. There's beauty in the film, in the innocence of it, in it's bravery and in it's clubbing of heteronormative storylines into deviant alternatives.
It's inspiring and I would definitely want to make similar movies, with similar treatment of the shots. There's so much radical genius involved.
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