a review of 拜占庭
I'm 23 years old. Already I feel like I'm in my 70s, although not in the amount of wisdom I've garnered. My health is failing me, I don't enjoy life that much, I slowly become desensethized towards everything, struggling to feel any emotion, even the bad ones. I feel like I've lived enough. I can't imagine myself in my actual 70s. Everything I believed in, has crumbled. I know, it's probably not normal to feel this way at 23, but I believe it has to be normal at some point in your life. I believe, if you live for eternity, you will eventually come to some sort of existential crisis. You will eventually start to get disillusioned with human values, and start disconnecting from the human world, both in your perception of it and your personality. Eventually, you would become so different, you would become an outsider. Humans wouldn't be able to accept you, and you wouldn't even be interested in that. Perhaps, with time you would start looking upon them as inferior creatures, and from that point, as WWII showed us, you would start to become very cruel. Why wouldn't you feel superior, when you've had all the time in the world to gain more life experience, knowledge and skills than everybody else in the world? My point is, if you've lived for 206 years, you wouldn't be acting like a teenage girl from Twilight. P. S. I initially ended my review here, but then I realised, I'm being a bit unfair, cause my criticism mainly concerns Saoirse Ronan's character, and her storyline. Whereas Gemma Arterton's character is brilliant. She knows, what life is all about, she clearly has the experience, she does appear like somebody, who's lived a long life. Although, I'd love to see her a bit tired of doing the same activity for so many years, even if it's for the sake of her daughter. I also loved the portrayal of the process of transformation. I loved, that it hinted at something beyond our imagination, those old gods, Darvell spoke about. If I was making this film, I'd steer more into that direction. Overall the presentation is beautiful. I'm so disappointed, because I wanted to love this film...