Cloverfield

Cloverfield

This is a 3D monster movie full of surprises in terms of cast performances, script and special effects which obviously is a tribute to the Godzilla movie in more respects than J.J. Abrams the producer may care to admit.

The entire footage of the movie, edited in the hand-held digitally wobbly video techniques, is captured as if it was shot by amateurs which were in the possession of the American army and locates a setting in a New York City that has been ravaged by a ferocious stomping monster, resulting in the loss of its commercial areas this tape was in true Blair Witch fashion, This is because the army is seen at the site making attempts to locate the spastic machine in the film.

The tape is of a surprise birthday celebration that was being organized for Rob, a troubled young man in his 20s, who is played by Michael Stahl-David, and he also highly suffers from self-inflicted problems. One of the other party attendees, named Beth is present at the ceremony but is repulsed by something that would turn out later to be Rob, her ex-best friend, who deep-screwed her weeks back and shamelessly ghosted afterwards without reaching out once.

After feeling embarrassed over such concerns, Beth stands up and quickly leaves the party but not before a loud distortion noise is heard in the background. There’s no other way to put it, a colossal lummox of a creature basically ripped the head clean off of Lady Liberty’s statue and hurled it outside their home.

The monster uses its creepy arachnoid minions, each the size of a Vespa, like a battle with teeth and claws. But there was only happiness his long-lost lover and ex-friend, Beth, was still alive but there were miles to cover in an exact timeframe since one of the hunky dudes went mission mode. Beth is also surviving in wreckage elegant women with messed up makeup, wearing sheer clothes and sweating while an entire army of filthy beetle-like drones ravages the city.

To put it bluntly, this film is sort of a 9/11 film along with the fact that it is not one. This is left unsaid, simply as no one says it is like EastEnders and watches the show. In no circumstance does anyone think that This is just like 9/11 and people would not even unpleasantly guess that 9:11 was the disaster in question. They would simply say that there was a monster torturing people in 1954 somewhere in Japan. This is America, there is no need to have any inferiority complexes. For what reason does this lunatic America have to keep us tortured again and again? Why there constantly? America is allowed to feel no shame, only suffering.

Incidentally, Rob was leaving for Japan on a business trip. 1954 Japanese Godzilla was blasted with nuclear resources and Japan experienced relentless chaos in the streets. In theory, Gavrilo-9/11 warriors are democrats in that they conveniently ignore their own defeat by a foreign superpower. Perhaps, this is the reason why America made 911 in Cloverfield. Or maybe it is the cause of her fascination with mid-late Godzilla films in fact Japan is, I repeat Japan is the ultimate place to conduct lord of destruction.

The effects are spectacular, not many will have a tranquil monster as in Bong Joon-ho’s the Host or an impressive panoramic shot of King Kong scaling the Empire State building from a distance in Peter Jackson’s picture. But how is it possible to understand such integration of the cameraman in the bloodwork? The procedure in these cases is mostly about making the cameraperson a film student as in Blair Witch or Bryan De Palma’s upcoming Iraq film, Redacted.

But this is just Rob’s best friend Hud (TJ Miller), who as far as being an expert is concerned is an amateur and’s a bit of a jerk. But even at that, moving, shouting, or just going crazy he always captures impressive material. If it was me, all you had to show would be my shins with everything else being a blurry image of urine that crawls down my pants. One concern however, the placement of the camera made it appear as if Hud was using a new eighty-five-minutes DV tape. The choice makes the film short.

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