This is my second viewing of Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, which has confirmed it's spot as one of the director's best. The Age of Innocence is more about the passage of time, history, and pushing boundaries of social custom, and finally, love--a big change from the bloodletting gangster pieces usually associated with Scorsese. In brief, I adored the delicate gaze across walls filled with paintings, and corridors of the upper class adorned with fine art of all sorts, very much including the characters dressed in intricate laces and fabrics that provide enough contrast as to be pieces of art themselves. A shot of a single empty room is superimposed over the same space filled with people; gradually characters fade into existence, and then once again fade away. Gracefully, we register the passage of time and gain a sense of history--the permanence of a room, an inanimate space, with the comings and goings of life and life passed, and it happens before our eyes in a matter of seconds.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
The Age of Innocence - 1993 - OnDemand broadcast
Friday, April 20, 2007
This is my second viewing of Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, which has confirmed it's spot as one of the director's best. The Age of Innocence is more about the passage of time, history, and pushing boundaries of social custom, and finally, love--a big change from the bloodletting gangster pieces usually associated with Scorsese. In brief, I adored the delicate gaze across walls filled with paintings, and corridors of the upper class adorned with fine art of all sorts, very much including the characters dressed in intricate laces and fabrics that provide enough contrast as to be pieces of art themselves. A shot of a single empty room is superimposed over the same space filled with people; gradually characters fade into existence, and then once again fade away. Gracefully, we register the passage of time and gain a sense of history--the permanence of a room, an inanimate space, with the comings and goings of life and life passed, and it happens before our eyes in a matter of seconds.
This is my second viewing of Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, which has confirmed it's spot as one of the director's best. The Age of Innocence is more about the passage of time, history, and pushing boundaries of social custom, and finally, love--a big change from the bloodletting gangster pieces usually associated with Scorsese. In brief, I adored the delicate gaze across walls filled with paintings, and corridors of the upper class adorned with fine art of all sorts, very much including the characters dressed in intricate laces and fabrics that provide enough contrast as to be pieces of art themselves. A shot of a single empty room is superimposed over the same space filled with people; gradually characters fade into existence, and then once again fade away. Gracefully, we register the passage of time and gain a sense of history--the permanence of a room, an inanimate space, with the comings and goings of life and life passed, and it happens before our eyes in a matter of seconds.
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