Few thoughts on "Le deluge" (2024)
Okay so i stumbled upon this movie quite randomly and what a blessing. It was such a good movie. Emotionally very hard to watch, I found myself questioning why did i decide to watch it right before going to sleep for three days sleep (no regrets tho). I loved how it explored the humanity of the royal family, it was very refreshing to see. I see how it was a little unexplored, I thing additional half an hour would be good. But I just loved it. I got chills and the movie keeps you in suspence till the end, even tho you know for the whole time exactly what will happen. It deals with very hard emotions, and does it well. The only con i see is kinda the battle with my morality. I feel movie like that, in this political state is quite, i don't know, humanising top elites doesnt feel right for me. I wouldn't choose it as subcject of my art (... okay in ideal world i might be hypocrite with my hyperfixations) so if I meant it to be influential at all. But other than that I loove it, and from artistic and humanitarian point of wiev its amazing I love it and would love to see more works like that. Anyway thats what i mainly wanted to talk about. Difference between political and artistic perception. I think this dilema will stay with me for quite some time. One more remarque are colours, like why its so whitewashed (at least not whole dark and you can see the screen), but bring back colours to cinema (not those super ugly plastic colourfouls tho). As for historical accuracy, I can't say much, and I really don't care. It's not a documentary, and you can clearly see that sharing historical knowledge is not the goal of it. It's just use as narrative device and I personally respect that, dont expect 100% accuracy. And overall i also don't know enough on the subject to tell.
