The Passenger
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.49 You Save: $14.50 (73%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.63 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Passenger
Movie Review: Existentialism and the Buddha Leave Africa to see the World
Summary: 5 Stars
The style seems dated now, and watching the film again so many years after graduating from college is both nostalgic and a little anxiety provoking. Nonetheless, a great film. The protagonist, through personal crisis and the device of a criminal venture in identify theft, reaches the revelation that identity generally is an artifice. Did he need to go to such extremes to make that escape? Wasn't that escape available long before the crisis? Or,perhaps, although individuals are adaptive and fluid, our relationships are rigid, thus compromising individual ethical choices. Conclusion: An entertaining headgame.Movie Review: Antonioni As A Mature Auteur
Summary: 5 Stars
I still remember the first time I watched this film in a small art house in Taiwan ten years ago. It was an amazing experience. I came out into the warm and bright sunshine, shaking and totally thrilled. The daring eight-minute long take near the end really sums up the film, in which Antonioni asks a question that has been with us since the beginning of human existence: Is freedom nothing but an illusion? Antonioni, without a doubt, stands tall among the most honest, original, and skillful filmmakers such as Ozu, Tarkovsky, and Resnais. I thank God (if He is really up there) for giving us these artists.Movie Review: The Passenger.....A Masterwork.
Summary: 5 Stars
A Masterwork of filmmaking during a time when uncounted millions were
more interested in Ideas...Thought...Life..Living....and the nature of Life itself,
than what we have now......the obsession of money. The pairing of Antonioni and Nicholson....is a brilliant explosion of silence in itself. Only Kurosawa could be mentioned in the same sentence with the accomplishments of Antonioni in this film.
Thirty years...maybe more and I still retain vivid sensory images of time, place, emotion...sound...void...and odd foreign qualities reminiscent of Fellini.
A Masterwork.
Movie Review: outstanding cinematography
Summary: 5 Stars
Any fan of long, sweeping, melodramatic camera shots will find this film fascinating. Many wonderful hand-held camera shots, unusual angles and points of view, and several long scenes done in just one take make this one a must-see. Of course, if you are a Nicholson fan, that just doubles the pleasure. His portrayal of a man unhinged is decidedly similar to several of his other characters, yet this one still walks away a winner. I especially enjoyed how quiet the film was. Not a lot of music, so one will certainly appreciate the natural sounds within the city and country scenes.Movie Review: Deserted life...
Summary: 5 Stars
The premise of "The Passenger" is interesting, as Jack Nicholson's character (David Locke) decides to swap identities with a dead man who is an arms dealer. This leads David on an adventure across Africa and Europe picking up where the dead man left off. This film reminded me of "The Sheltering Sky" with it's sense of hopelessness as David seems trapped in an alien world that he doesn't really understand as he drifts about without any real sense of a goal. The ending is brilliantly conceived as Antonioni shows why he is the master of the slow pan.