Bound, The Big Sleep, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, & The Silence

Bound is pretty much only notable for Gina Gershon. Who, with this movie, is probably the most attractive big screen lesbian of all time. Yeah, just wow. If only Jennifer Tilly's voice wasn't quite so annoying, I would have little to complain about in the movie. Just that there's nothing too great about it, just sort of a somewhat interesting movie, with some nice visual tricks.

The Big Sleep was pretty bad. I probably wouldn't hate it nearly as much had the 46 version not been made, or if Sarah Miles didn't look ugly as hell in it. Really, she can't compare at all to Bacall. And Mitchum isn't nearly as good as Bogart. Moving it to England made no sense, and the flashbacks just got distracting. The book doesn't make any sense in the first place, why try to solve that? It may follow the novel better than the earlier version, but who cares? That the Maltese Falcon followed the book so closely (with clear exceptions for things that would have broken the production code, like some of the gay text and subtext, plus the nudity and drugs), doesn't make the movie better, the directing, writing, and acting makes it a great movie. The same can be said for this movie. Very little comes remotely close to being good in it. I can't understand the entire reason for it being made.

Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and the Silence make up Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of Faith. I can sort of see why it's called that, although I'm not entirely sure about The Silence fitting in with the concept of faith from the other two movies. As far as the movies go, I thought that Winter Light was the weakest of the three, but it clearly fit the concept of faith the best. Through a Glass Darkly was the best movie, but all of them were full of good acting, and beautiful cinematography. And no one does mentally unstable women better than Bergman.