http://www.vivalageek.com/?p=9102&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-box-apocalyptic-anxieties-and-desires Where all The Cool Geeks hang out.. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vivalageek.com/?p=9102&cpage=1#comment-184 Harry Georgatos Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:18:01 +0000 http://www.horroryearbook.com/?p=6927#comment-184 I was one of the few who liked THE BOX. Most critics dismissed it as a film that did not have an internal logic. The Box to me was a metaphor for nuclear desruction. All three films have similar ideas and concepts. SOUTHLAND TALES would have to be his most ambitious film to date. In that film there is a clip from KISS ME DEADLY. A film Kelly obviously has great admiration. Kelly's THE BOX reminded me of the way movies were made in the '70's. There's references to Philip Kaufman's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHER'S, THE PARALLAX VIEW to De Palma's BLOW OUT, and films like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Kelly has made a trilogy of post 9/11 sci-fi movies that unsettles the paranoia and anxiety of humanity. Kelly's films are about ideas and concepts. It will be interesting to see if Kelly continues with his same filmic concerns or move onto something different. I was one of the few who liked THE BOX. Most critics dismissed it as a film that did not have an internal logic. The Box to me was a metaphor for nuclear desruction. All three films have similar ideas and concepts. SOUTHLAND TALES would have to be his most ambitious film to date. In that film there is a clip from KISS ME DEADLY. A film Kelly obviously has great admiration. Kelly’s THE BOX reminded me of the way movies were made in the ’70′s. There’s references to Philip Kaufman’s INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHER’S, THE PARALLAX VIEW to De Palma’s BLOW OUT, and films like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Kelly has made a trilogy of post 9/11 sci-fi movies that unsettles the paranoia and anxiety of humanity. Kelly’s films are about ideas and concepts. It will be interesting to see if Kelly continues with his same filmic concerns or move onto something different.

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