Review of Hunger (2008) by Ahmedaiman1999 — 04 Apr 2020
Boys a dear! This is definitely not the right time to watch such a gut-wrenching, brutal film. The combination of harrowing imagery with sounds that penetrate the senses is really something that creeps under your skin to send quivers through your soul: it's specially made to make you feel what the characters feel.
Honestly, I feel sick! That said, I think people really don't do this film justice by only praising its idiosyncratic direction style and Michael Fassbender's achingly astounding performance (only God knows how he didn't get an Oscar nod).
Because what strikes me the most is how brilliantly structured this film is. The first act may be a bit longer than it should, and some of the attempts to strike an emotional chord amidst the sheer rawness and grittiness didn't pay off as they were intended to; but I couldn't help feeling that the transition from an act to another was just perfect: every act ends and paves the way for the next at the perfect time.
We get to see what deprivation do to humans but in a most abstract way at the first act, we get to know that sacrificing for the others (by self-deprivation) could be the only proper way of rebellion at the second act and then we feel deprivation and suffer so badly with only the feeling of a martyr to compensate for all the pain.
This review of Hunger (2008) was written by Ahmedaiman1999 on 04 Apr 2020.
Hunger has generally received very positive reviews.
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