The movie starts with a total bang of visual treats.. The slow motion of some of the fantastic scenes ever.. Cool angles.. and if you think they are disconnected, think again or rather, watch again! The entire movie flows literally in front of you and dynamic as a mercury broken free from a thermometer..The interesting scenes , tricks, where the girl, Alexandria sees the upside down horse, well really a reflection , a rudimentary pin-hole camera technique captured so beautifully, the way the story is ready to mould as the narrative goes, taking in the elements from the girl.
The actor - Lee Pace, the girl , Catinca Untaru and the nurse - Justine Weddell all fresh beautiful faces have done an excellant job. Specially the little girl with her broken English and cute smile. I can't stop going to the all the places and scenes that were shown in the movie.. the beautiful everlasting desert in captivating colours of gold and brown and yellow, the butterfly reef, the sea swimming elephant - incidentally is it Rajan from Andamans?, The way the mystic emerges from the tree, The blood of the blue bandit spreading on the canvas, the mystic folk who give the directions - I have seen this before in Baraka; are they the same people then?, Jodhpur, the city of blue houses.
What baffles me is, is the imagination of Alexandria or of Roy, surely the girl cannot have seen all these places and those beautiful costumes to put into her imagination, but then again it can't be Roy's either, remember the scene where she comes out of Darwin's bag? Or is it both's? Let me know what your thoughts are..
