#1960s setting

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In The Mood For Love (2000) Directed by Wong Kar Wai

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Chapter 5 of Check the Spindle will be up probably tomorrow or Monday...

Enjoy some sneak aesthetic peaks.

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Feature Film review of the week - Legend (2015) By Brian Helgeland

IMDb Rating - 6.9/10

Synopsis:

Legend tells the true story of the Kray twins, Ronnie & Reggie who ruled East London’s underworld in the 60′s with blood & iron fists.

The Review:

This movie is an adaptation of a true event that happened in the 1960 London where The Kray brothers raised to power. Both played by Tom Hardy, Reggie, the younger brother is cool, suave and charming one while Ronnie is the total opposite in nature but both are eyeing for one common thing - to control the streets of London. From what I can share, this movie deserves a little bit of an increase in rating (I would go for 7.2/10) because storyline wise, it was clearly delivered and all the actions were packed and realistically done, not to mention the portrayal of both twins were perfect by Tom Hardy.

I always am a fan of gangster world depiction movie and when the content is clearly narrated, I would get even more excited to watch. One particular feature and concept that is exciting and great for this movie was the use of 1 actor playing 2 characters at the same time. Technically it wasn’t easy to pull off the technique of placing 1 actor as 2 different characters in 1 frame. Ideally you would have to carefully frame the subject and divide it into half and then layering it over in order to make it look like both were in 1 shot while actually it was 2 shots merged into 1. This, in general, helped the movie’s to become much more interesting both to enjoy and simply analyze.

Picture above shows just how the frame is carefully divided to give it look like it was played by two different actors.

The only problem that I find it to be a bit hasty is the length of the story. The beginning and main content is pretty great, no comment whatsoever, but when it reaches the second hour, it starts to get pretty draggy and lengthy because there were some unnecessary dialogues and actions that weren’t supposed to be shown as audience already got the idea of the story.

Despite it being draggy and a little bit lengthy, overall, Legend is a great British classic gangster film as it implements a unique technical approach by portraying 2 characters in just 1 actor and accurate depiction of the period of that time. It is a movie worth seeing with your parents and loved ones mainly due to its positive values inserted.