Vesper

Okay, so movies like this are still occasionally made. Good, sometimes it's easy to lose faith.

This is what you can get when you don't have Hollywood money and you don't have to follow the standard Hollywood procedure and end up with a standard Hollywood product. I wouldn't want to take anything away from Hollywood: they have made many unforgettable experiences, but I don't see a way out of the too big to fail standard Hollywood mold.

_Vesper_ shows what you can get when unrestricted, unchained, pure **talent** takes the center stage. There are no compromises and there is no holding back. Just someone's, or many someones', unfiltered vision, poured out on film. All I want to know is: when is their next project coming out?

One could argue that the end is really the beginning of the story, [spoiler] which is left to the watcher to wonder [/spoiler] so I understand why some people will dislike it, all in all I liked the atmosphere, style and soundtrack, but the movie does kinda end up feeling like it was more of a presentation of the world and building of it on the midst of the hero's journey of Vesper. It was slow but I really enjoyed and the curiosity about the society in this reality really kept me interested. I don't have hopes but I'd love to see it being explored in a tv show format, perhaps, picking up where the movie left. And no doubt that if you are a Nausicaä fan like myself you'll at least enjoy the aesthetic inspiration of this world.

This was a beautiful piece of work, from the stunning artistic design, excellent performances and it's haunting soundtrack.

Modern blockbusters have become so dominated by far more action and noise than you can ever take in and this is a real contrast to that. This is a sedate, deeply emotional journey full of hope and determination in the bleakest of circumstances.

This is one of the most beautiful and imaginative dystopian sci-fi movies I've seen in many years.

Greatly aligns with reality (i.e., the various technological ideas, dilemmas, and conclusions I've cognized/conceived/realized over the last decade or so) and is also somehow infinitely more finely visually rendered than blockbuster releases (e.g., the The Last Of Us HBO Max TV show season 1) that I assumed would have had an advantage of more capital investment (i.e., more money to work with). Beautiful, depressingly reflective/realist, and yet not conclusively depressing as, overall, it allows for hope. (It yet again must be said that this film confusingly, greatly outperforms big-budget productions in its rich, finely rendered, realistic visual components).

Very cerebral and with stunning visuals to boot.

It achieves an impressive formal appearance and a suitably disturbing dystopia although it does not avoid falling into commonplaces. It achieves an impressive visual texture that turns the Lithuanian forests into the perfect setting for an apocalyptic world, and Dan Levy's music shines especially in creating an unsettling atmosphere that at the same time has a certain epic undertone. Camera movement is somewhat constrained by visual effects rather than enriched by them, but at times it's a film with good ideas about family and survival.

It was fine. Thought it'd be cooler.

Simply with a forest you can create a post-apocalyptic world.

I liked the mood given by the CGI but you can easily guess the story. It is clear what is coming at every scene. Nothing so excited or interested. If you are not bored enough, after a few minutes you will say:
[spoiler] bad guy and the good guy lying on the bed will die somehow, so called guest is a jug, humanity will be saved by our main character. [/spoiler]
Anything else would be a twist but sadly no surprises. 5.5/10