Day: 14 October 2006

This year I’ve read at least two legendary film makers predicting the end of cinema: Peter Greenaway and David Lynch. They obviously don’t say that cinema is going to die altogether. Simply, the way films are being produced, their promotion and, consequently, our relation to and understanding of them will have been changed profoundly in the near future.

I’m not going to expand on this any further, as I decided to post one link here and to ponder on how technical innovations may change the future of the thriller genre. I mean, the technique you are about to see is not innovative in itself. However, I thought: what would it be if the entire film was produced like this? You might say that, unless the emerging images were as intriguing or captivating, as this one, you’d fall asleep long before the drawning ended. But in the world where there are many dull blockbusters and pathetic action thrillers, to see something like this unravelling in front of your very eyes would be rather exhilirating (at least, the first time round). And then people would begin to mass-produce such films. Imagine the remake of Oldboy, in which the producers used this technique.

In short, I think, this is a very productive way to add some fresh blood to the thriller genre. At any rate, the level of suspense should be sky-high.