Absolutely Fantastic

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The Director Michel Hazanavicius wanted to show the audience by telling them the story of how the silent era became talkies. In the beginning of film, we see George Valentin retrained, the title slide that reads ... I won't talk! I won't say a word! ... This is a clear indication of a person (or a film company) refuses to accept change into modern era of technology - using sound. = Changing of the times. At first, I almost believed this was Based on Ture story, in way it is. About the industry. End of the film The reason why Michel Hazanavicius wanted to included sound and dance is to show the being of a new cinema era. My own view I quite enjoyed it, I did like how the technology of using wipes, such as Inside of Circle of scene, while outside circle is blackout.

I wanted to like The Artist more than I did. I love silent movies and I was excited to see this Best Picture winner. However, I may have built it up too much in my mind. It's enjoyable, but it didn't grab me like I expected it to. The cast does a great job, the visuals are beautiful and I love the references and homages to the silent era. The story, however, is overly simplistic and it seems to drag. It may have been my fault, though, I watched it when I was tired -- never a good idea.

The Artist film genuisely have two parts embedded within. First the picture elaborates Hollywood land story. Summon up the idea of Hollywood existence and its life n rules. The rules that the producers are the power not the writers not the makers n the artists. Kinography studios is metaphors of the king of the pictures the lord of Hollywood. His rules, his power. In the ideal world the artist should be the one who creates freely and mostly bohemian with none of all the materialistic aspects. The film portrait rising star journey of an ambitious girl who is in love of the pictures making and dreaming to be a star, just like her idol 'George Valentine' the great artist of silent movies whom his life will take nose dive as he refused to bow for the wind of change and give in up on his art n beliefs. The Artist is a story of dignified human who fights against the odd and swims against the current to be what he really believes in. As simple as it sounds but the film really has great embedded message reflect the real world. As the one of the most incredible scene in the film when "peppy" & "George" meets at Kinography studio on the stairs and the camera shot from behind and George is looking up while talking to peppy after two years from seeing eachother n she tells him she has signed with the studio as a main artist. The wide shot the two of them standing in different level George is going down the stairs while peppy on her way up when they met and the extras are moving up n down all over the screen as this life going in circle. Everyone is in the picture except the studio boss who is always on the top sat at his office waiting n making the next big thing.

Every person who is obsessed with movies and filmmaking has that one movie that made them interested in the medium, and for me, that film was The Artist. The film came out in 2011 and it was a black and white silent film, the same way movies were used to be back in the 20's and 30's, in fact, the film takes place in the final days of silent movies when the talkies started to rise, which is how they used to call movies with voice audio, the film is about a famous actor of the silent era and his downfall when this films slowly disappear, and we also see the rise of a young actress in the talkies era and a big part of the film is the relationship that forms between this two and how it changes through the years, what I love about this film is that it feels so much as a love letter to Hollywood and filmmaking in general, even though it was released on 2011, it feels like a piece of cinematic history. The acting is across the board excellent, everyone does an excellent job in convening emotion without saying words and this also comes from excellent direction, you can tell the director really love the medium, the music is also great, it really captures the style of the era is representing. Something that should be noted is that I never felt the movie was slow or boring, I felt constantly entertained, there was always so much movement in every shot, which makes sense considering this was a silent film, this is something very, VERY few people are familiar with nowadays but the pacing felt just right, there isn't really a scene that drags in my opinion. Overall the film is just fantastic and I can't really find much wrong with it, this is the film that awoke my interest in filmmaking and made me start to appreciate films in a way I didn't even considered before.