The Illusionist
Movie: The Illusionist (2006)
Watched with: My mom
Even setting aside the magical elements, this is more of a fantasy than any kind of real historical thing, but it has everything that a movie like it should.
It's just a big fun romantic (in the Percy Shelley sense, not the Fabio/Harlequin sense) tale.
I don't know what to call stories like this, with larger than life characters and exotic-but-vague historical settings, but when done right, it's really cool. Aside from also being about magicians, it's tone (if not the actual story) reminded me a lot of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which is one of my favorite books.
It's not a perfect movie--the pacing's weird and the ending's kind of cheap (a twist that only works because of information that was concealed from us...though that's arguably appropriate for a story about a magician).
But it's still probably the best time I've had at the movie theater this year.
Watched with: My mom
Even setting aside the magical elements, this is more of a fantasy than any kind of real historical thing, but it has everything that a movie like it should.
It's just a big fun romantic (in the Percy Shelley sense, not the Fabio/Harlequin sense) tale.
I don't know what to call stories like this, with larger than life characters and exotic-but-vague historical settings, but when done right, it's really cool. Aside from also being about magicians, it's tone (if not the actual story) reminded me a lot of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which is one of my favorite books.
It's not a perfect movie--the pacing's weird and the ending's kind of cheap (a twist that only works because of information that was concealed from us...though that's arguably appropriate for a story about a magician).
But it's still probably the best time I've had at the movie theater this year.
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