There is a special type of films closely related to the place that was filmed. The sites are not just great settings to work but they are part of the topic – as if the film was a fictional drama and a documentary film on the language. One of the greatest of these films, “Columbus”, from 2017, directed by Kogonada, did not receive the attention you deserve, but there are no excuses now after it flows, and for free, on Tubi. The title refers to the city of this name in Indiana, which includes only about fifty thousand, but it is a decisive center for modern architecture, thanks to this to a large extent to the emotional charitable works of a local businessman, J Cityscape is an integral part of the movie drama. More importantly, it is at the heart of the film style.
“Columbus” is a coming story-it may stick to building the only buildings in the cinema-a young emotional relationship with the architectural treasures of the city, and the same architecture. Haley Le Richardson plays the role of Casey, who works on the shelves of books in the public library (designed by IM Pei). Casey graduated from high school a year ago; While friends moved to the college, she stayed at home to take care of her mother (Michelle Forbes), who recovers from drug use. Casey plan is to become one of the architectural city evidence; She knows a lot about her famous scenes and is deeply interested in her. But it is a solitary passion until a visitor named Jean (John Chu) from Korea arrived. His father, who is separated from him, is a famous elderly engineer, during his visit to Columbus, collapses and shows that he is seriously ill. Casey and Jane meet by chance, and when you start talking to him about the city’s architecture, he captures it through its intellectual discrimination. Hoping to help the young woman change her life, he presents her to a long friend, a professor named Elianor (Parker Bossi), who was hosting his father.
Since the beginning of “Columbus”, Kogunada has been developing a comprehensive architectural cinema and does so in ways that you feel is an integral part of the characters experience; It restores the wonderful buildings in the city by showing it. Eleanor and around the sharp vertical lines and open views of the famous Milo home from Eroo Saarinen; Casey, who is trained in the game of a tourist guide, walks at a pace near the tangible clock tower of the first Christian Church, by ERO’s father, Eliel Saarinen; Returning to the library where she works, shepherds wander around the stage -like rows of low parallel shelves; It applies for a job in the brightness of the office, which is depicted by the glass of the Al -Gomhoria newspaper, by Myron Goldsmith. Kogonada images – sometimes straight and sometimes Qatari, sometimes far and sometimes close, sometimes follow people in movement and sometimes fixed – they are quietly like Casey looks. They bring buildings and characters with graceful and accurate sensitivity. In one of the most wonderful moments in the movie, Casey Jin shows the slow preparation of her car, the building that has sparked its aesthetic health; Then she tracks her hand, carrying a cigarette, the outline of the building, as it appears from her abstract point of view with caution.
With normal natural means, “Columbus” displays a uniform aesthetic in a remarkable way; Even the elements of the film that do not physically depend on the city’s structure is disrupted. The images of photo industry, by film photographer Elisha Christian, adds time to architecture. Filming long pictures with tremors with buildings, making a bold visual statement about the aesthetic aesthetic of modernity. A decisive aspect of cinematic is liberation. His Kogonada is “COOMBUS”, using various rhythms and sudden reception. He also wrote the script, and put his writing and editing together in mind for something I once heard director James Gray say that feature films have a kind of architecture. Kogonada shines this idea in a way that reflects the topic of the movie. The dramatic framework of the film, despite its validity, is embodied in its asymmetric signs, and the changing contemporary identities of the major and esteemed works.
It seems that the extended conversations in the city’s strong landmarks have eased their amazing power. The dialogue itself, which is mysterious, large, inserted and expressive, is compatible with the comprehensive Kogonada approach. Long discussion scenes seem fast, even in the component Tempi, due to the way they utter the lines that each other pronounced – and because of the activity studied presentations that restore life to life. Although Casey aesthetic sensitivity is fierce, at first, it is an appeal to her, which is the excessive dependence on historical and mechanical formulas that are preparing to dispense with as a tourist guide. Jin, who hunts enthusiasm behind formulas, persuades her to talk from the heart about architecture – in a scene that emphasizes the important event of their meeting.
When I wrote about “Columbus” At the time of his first show in SandansThen again, When it was shown in New YorkShe confirmed her studied and vibrant performance, especially Richardson’s performance. Casey, embodied convincingly on a semi -artistic young man who leaks from its pent -up and pent -up powers until they appear quietly, quietly but strongly, with spontaneity and insolence of its time. There is a time in its performance as well: a sense of wheels turns inward, even when you do not speak, the pulses are not packed. Zhou, as a perception and generosity gene, who distracts his attention from his family’s problems through the sudden donations of bright light in Casey, is wise and renewed his youth; The unintended admiration makes this man, who appears to be in his forties, is almost a teenager again. This is how Elianor, who embodies the principle of the reality of the film, says not only dealing with logistics to establish the sick architect hospital and visit Jin but also in the management of the stage, with the new Casey’s future, while getting rid of the series.
If the film’s art sign is its resident power – the recovery in the memory after a long period of viewing – the “Columbus” is classic, for frequent tones and moods in its shows and pictures. From the attractive story of the film to its same texts, Kogonada designed an amazing individual and amazing cinematic vision – and I find that this vision is something of the mystery. “Columbus” is his first feature, however it seems to be a work of a mature and long -standing experience, a film for young people who were seen from outside the youth. It is not revolutionary on the way.Citizen Kane“He, but he participates with the first feature of Orson Wales, a feeling of age, and starting late; there is more meaning here at the end of a chapter, at least from another start.After Yang“He was appointed to the future of Dysopi, does not share documentary methods or” Columbus “. The feeling of the civil virtue on which” Columbus “depends is a story of graphic times, races, unfortunately, ancient-mainly, the imagination of the past at the present time.
