Help me understand "A Single Man"?

[Uncle GroOve]

So my wife comes home with the aforementioned film, directed by fashion designer Tom Ford.
"Huh - I din't know hat he moved his activity to filmmaking..... let's have a lookee"

Well - I really don't know what to think of it. In some parts it is just like an array of expensive advertisement shots - these overdone shots have none of the impact of say "Inglorious Basterds". It lacks the touch of "Coco avant Chanel" (the film w/ Audrey Tatou). The fading color effect between the main actor's (Colin Firth) reverie scenes and the main timeline is just too obvious (amateurish?).

At the end of the film I am left thinking that no matter how creative (and famous) the producer may be, the success factor lies elsewhere, in the hands of the true "talents" that work outside the limelight...

Did anybody enjoy this film, and why? Pls tell me what I'm missing....

Thx

Paul

 

[Patryk_Rebisz]

I can't stand "Inglorious Basterds" and cannot even finish watching it so it's more than the talent of the people doing the film but also perception of the audience. "Coco" being a film i like and also decently directed still falls short of being an epic so somebody at some point just didn't put in their %110.

"Single Man" being a film directed by first time director probably (didn't see it) also falls in the category of well intended film but without enough "experience" (mark i didn't see talent, money, skills). The lack of which i see over and over on many of the productions i DP (sometimes with good $ behind it). I consider myself a really good DP but there is only so much i can do directly on the set, as even if i give him interesting coverage the first time director can still mess it up it up in the edit.

We are so surrounded by moving images and films that we all assume that we know how a film is crafted but this is simply not true - it takes a tremendous amount of experience (again NOT talent, money, skills etc) to learn the basics before you can "fly."

(That said, since i didn't see the film i can be all wrong... So the above are general musings about my perception of first-time directorial efforts rather then the film in question)