Barr".
Bessons directing seems strangely calm for Besson. His other movies have more oomph to them. More beauty shots. This one is more normal. More static shots. Less camera moves. Until the action starts. And then he gives you the good stuff. It seems like he is intentionally trying to deprive you from beauty shots or dynamic cuts or slow motion until there is impact to be had with those. He is not shooting a conversation like an action scene. ( Spielberg would shoot a conversation like an action scene ). He shoots an action scene like an action scene. Though there are funny or interesting compositions in the movie that I like. One of them happens toward the beginning when we see Leon taking a subway. The posture that Jean Reno did in that shot spoke so much. Before that shot I thought that Leon is a kind of 90s Hollywood action hero type. But the posture is so melancholic and broken, while trying to be the opposite that it gave a promise of a completely different movie. On which it then delivered. One more good shot is toward the middle of the film where Matilda gives Leon a hug and Besson decided to point our attention to the fact that her shoes do not touch the floor. Or in one place during an action scene you get a very funny extreme close up of Leon's nostrils.
she cannot find a comfortable pose to sit in. This made her move about frantically and gave her an ability to touch Mendel's groin a few times. First time Mendel didn't even notice. The second time, he readjusted himself to help her find the comfortable spot. Third time, he readjusted something in his pants. He was wearing jeans. There was no way to see if he is aroused. But this gesture was a giveaway. Sheiny knew that they are moving in the right direction. But she didn't want to repeat it herself. He would notice.
The only think I want to add to this review is the presence of Jean-Marc Barr in the film. Because Jean-Marc Barr fucking rocks.
In the last week or so I started feeling a loss of interest to do anything what so ever. But since I do the live-streams, the main progress on the movie still marches forward with a steady pace.
Moria's Race project is confidently marching forward with a steady pace. Didn't cripple the project even the larger amount of highly technical shots that I decided to make for it. Something that would most definitely cripple a production of something like I'm Not Even Human.