The opening scene to the Film Mongol by Sergei Bodrov really catches my eye. The shot starts with a rainy day in a mongolian marketplace and using a crane shot flies over the market buildings and leads us to Genghis Khan before his rise to power in a publicly displayed prison cell with a sign saying "Mongol who wanted to destroy Tangut Kingdom". It does a good job to show what the mood of the situation of our main character is in (a bad one). later on in the movie Sergei brings us back to this setting and has one of the coolest shots i have seen. It is a slow motion shot of the rain falling into Genghis's cell. The symbolism is that he has the god "Tengri" (God of the sky very very important God) on his side of the situation. There is too many interesting well put together scenes to talk about, i really enjoyed this movie and will be looking forward to more of Sergei Bodrov work.
2 comments:
This movie sounds epic. I might have to search blockbuster to find it. I don't see many foreign films, but I would like to try to see this one.
I really like your review it really makes me want to see this movie but i was wondering if their are subtitles and if that takes away from the movie?
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