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My bella review.
Colours can have very different hues and saturations but the same tone. I’ve written a bit about that here.
When I watched Bella I was amazed at how masterfully Alejandro Monteverde combined soulful sorrow with heartwarming happiness so that they had the same “tone”. Some movies use sad to balance happy and other to compliment it but this film just stated it as it is in the same voice.
It made it seem like joy and sorrow are equal parts of life. Not in a dualistic way, mind you, in a realistic way. Monteverde, by the way is a great Christian (watch his interview on GodTube here.)
Not much happens in the movie but it is graceful, beautiful and deep. Don’t watch it expecting John McLean to jump out and shoot someone. Go in to enjoy a rich slice of life. Gritty and real yet so true it is sweet.
And the best part? No swearing, no blasphemy, no sensuality and no violence- the truth of the world without any of the perversion Hollywood insists on bringing out. I know the argument that these things happen in real life and so movies should portray it but surely days go by that are void of there things in every life – stories happen every minute that have no sex scene and no swearing and no body gets beat up. These stories are the beauty that reflects God in us.
Bella is not only not preachy but it also doesn’t make any outright statements. It just makes you think by portraying something different.
I love the opening line:
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”
Watch it at Cinema Nouveau (Cedar Square has love seats!)
Prebook the dvd on pushplay
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