Narration needs to take the form of spellweaving storytelling or ironizing distance; otherwise it violates filmic logic without purpose, as here. I will not baldly claim storytelling magic for America and leave satirical commentary for the Europeans.
Scorcese is here most effective from the point of view of staring at paintings. An operatic scene so absorbed me I clapped at the end, suprising others in the cinema.
But there is also a certain boredom to Scorcese's long opulance, whether we are watching gang warfare of society posturing. American English sounds nasal and whispy in the mouths of Pfeiffer and Ryder. Day Lewis is as miscast here as he was as the last Mohican.
Scorcese is here most effective from the point of view of staring at paintings. An operatic scene so absorbed me I clapped at the end, suprising others in the cinema.
But there is also a certain boredom to Scorcese's long opulance, whether we are watching gang warfare of society posturing. American English sounds nasal and whispy in the mouths of Pfeiffer and Ryder. Day Lewis is as miscast here as he was as the last Mohican.
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