This Week - 12/29/2010
'Hurricane' is MTV Buzzworthy's
Most Epically Unforgettable Video
Most Epically Unforgettable Video
The results are in for MTV Buzzworthy's Fan Favorites Year End Polls. 'Hurricane' took the title of Most Epically Unforgettable Video of 2010 by a whopping 53%. Congrats to all the Echelon for the win!
New Years Eve with MARS in Las Vegas
You still have time to end 2010 with MARS in Las Vegas this Friday, December 31st! Tickets are available HERE. Palms Casino also has a MARS NYE Package including concert tickets and room. In addition, the band is also offering EXCLUSIVE VIP BOX SEAT PACKAGES. These tickets are a LIMITED QUANTITY so ORDER HERE!
Vote MARS For NME Awards 2011
NME is still asking YOU for nominees for the 2011 Shockwaves NME Awards. Select MARS in the Best International Band and Best Live Band categories at their website.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
Dec. 31, 2010 – Las Vegas, NV
The Pearl Theater (Buy Tickets)(VIP Box Seats)
Jan. 10, 2011 – Glendale, AZ
BCS Championship Game
Be sure to visit the Official Tour Page for all available ticket information regarding current and recently rescheduled dates, and printable promotional flyers.
Use Twitter? Be sure to keep updated with the latest ticket releases and relating announcements by following @30SECONDSTOMARS, and @MarsGoldenTix for overseas VIP Ticket Packages.
Use Facebook? Remember to "RSVP" for each event you plan on attending on the official Thirty Seconds To Mars Facebook Events Page by clicking here.
CANDLELIGHT TRIAD MISSION!
Inspired by many of your Triad Global Assault submissions, the CANDLELIGHT TRIAD MISSION has ignited! Echelon in St. Petersburg formed this impressive triad with fire torches:
Create the Triad symbol using candlelight or any form of light in high-profile locations in your area! The bigger, the better. Get creative!
Submit your candlelight triad photos to the Triad Global Assault page, tagging photos as ‘candlelight’.
Remember: ALWAYS abide by local laws and Candles Safety Rules.
Each week we'll showcase some of the best MARS-themed avatars on twitter, facebook, and other social networks. @MO_ECHELON's avatar displays all four THIS IS WAR DELUXE EDITION covers. A simple, yet eye-catching and affective promo:
Design your own avatars to promote voting, upcoming shows, or anything MARS related. You can also use or edit the avatars designed by @thisisthehive.
Help us spread the word about Thirty Seconds To Mars and the new album, This Is War. Below are the 12 Steps to Mars which you can use on a daily basis to help. Click Here to Read NOW!
Live in or near a MARS tour stop? Promo weeks before the show date in that area! If you have pictures or video from your own street team missions, please send links to thisisthehive@gmail.com.
Follow @30SECONDSTOMARS on Twitter
@jaredleto • @ShannonLeto • @tomofromearth
12/28/2010
12/26/2010
ECHELON ATTACK
Family Well, here are like one picture every year dedicated to each member of the beautiful music group "Thirty Seconds To Mars" for her birthday, this time, it's up to nuetra god and father, "Jared. "
Well to tell this man really love him with all my being, let not met him as a person, never talk in person, as all Echelon, want that, but anyway, I could hear from the web and the for his interviews is that he is a totally humble, is a great person, talented, is unique!
Sometimes I think, "is a gift, being able to be an actor and musician at a time, and over, being the director of their videos, and starring in them, creating songs, is actually a very talented person and I admire much as is. "
I love you Jared, Echelon will always be like following and loving your music, and defending the group's main message:)
"Happy Birthday Jared"
Micaela Melo- Mikha Echelon
12/25/2010
12/23/2010
VIP BOX SEATS and GOLDEN TICKET PACKAGES for LAS VEGAS NYE SHOW
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ECHELON ATTACK
This Week - 12/22/2010
'Hurricane' EXPLICIT Released
Have you seen HURRICANE UNCENSORED: Full-length Explicit Director's Cut? Experience it now, available in all regions! Share the video on twitter, facebook, emails, etc.!
Vote HURRICANE For MTV Buzzworthy's
Most Epically Unforgettable Video
MTV Buzzworthy wants to know what video rocked and shocked your 2010. If you think HURRICANE was the 'Most Epically Unforgettable Video' of the year, click HERE to vote. Poll ends Sunday, December 26!
VIP Luxury Boxes For Vegas NYE Show
Thirty Seconds to Mars is now offering you the opportunity to purchase EXCLUSIVE VIP BOX SEAT PACKAGES to their live performance in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 31st, 2010. These tickets are in LIMITED QUANTITY and available for a one-day sale on Sun, Dec. 26. ORDER HERE!
Vote MARS For NME Awards 2011
NME is looking for nominees for various categories for the 2011 Shockwaves NME Awards. Nominate MARS in the Best International Band and Best Live Band categories at their website.
NEW TOUR DATES ADDED
Jan. 10, 2011 – Glendale, AZ
BCS Championship Game
Feb. 9, 2011 – Mexico City, Mexico
Vive Cuervo Salón – (Buy Tickets)
Mar. 11, 2011 - Yas Island, Abu Dhabi
UAE - (Buy Tickets)
Be sure to visit the Official Tour Page for all available ticket information regarding current and recently rescheduled dates, and printable promotional flyers.
Use Twitter? Be sure to keep updated with the latest ticket releases and relating announcements by following @30SECONDSTOMARS, and @MarsGoldenTix for overseas VIP Ticket Packages.
Use Facebook? Remember to "RSVP" for each event you plan on attending on the official Thirty Seconds To Mars Facebook Events Page by clicking here.
CANDLELIGHT TRIAD MISSION!
Inspired by many of your Triad Global Assault submissions, the CANDLELIGHT TRIAD MISSION has ignited! Mannheim Echelon created this triad using twinkle lights and ladders in Frankenthal. Perfect for the holiday season:
Create the Triad symbol using candlelight or any form of light in high-profile locations in your area! The bigger, the better. Get creative!
Submit your candlelight triad photos to the Triad Global Assault page, tagging photos as ‘candlelight’.
Remember: ALWAYS abide by local laws and Candles Safety Rules.
Each week we'll showcase some of the best MARS-themed avatars on twitter, facebook, and other social networks. @TinaCarstensen's avatar is a great showcase for HURRICANE: THE FILM:
Design your own avatars to promote voting, upcoming shows, or anything MARS related. You can also use or edit the avatars designed by @thisisthehive.
Help us spread the word about Thirty Seconds To Mars and the new album, This Is War. Below are the 12 Steps to Mars which you can use on a daily basis to help. Click Here to Read NOW!
Live in or near a MARS tour stop? Promo weeks before the show date in that area! If you have pictures or video from your own street team missions, please send links to thisisthehive@gmail.com.
Thirty Seconds To Mars on Facebook
Jared Leto • Shannon Leto • Tomo Milicevic
12/22/2010
Life on Mars? Open Music Interview
While 30 Seconds to Mars‘ fans hurried to get some trumping places near the stage, band members Jared Leto (vocal, guitar), Shannon Leto (drums) and Tomo Milicevic (guitar) were talking with the journalists in the next hall.
Only three TVchannels, one padiostation and our site were allowed to take an interview. ‘It’s a very difficult artist, with it’s temper, so you have to be careful. Show your respect and don’t make him nervous with stupid questions. And no photos!’ We’ve been warned.
A big sofa was brought into the empty room. Especially for the foreign stars. Interviewer should stand in front of them and ask questions. While one Mass Media was talking with artists, the others were waiting behind the door. All the IEC hall was filled with rows of tables. ‘What was happening in here?’ Jared asked. Organizers explained him that the day before there was the dog show. ‘We don’t need no education’. Tomo hummed Pink Floyd’s lines, associating this tables with school desks.
Shannon was little bit irritated by the treatment. They treated the band like little children. The Band was lead everywhere under guards’, organizers’ and label representatives’ surveillance. ‘What are we? Cows? Oh come on!’ he jokes an escort, smiling.
We were the 5th to take an interview. Me and the photographer came in and stood in front of them. ‘Hi, guys’ Jared greeted us. ‘How are you?’ Shannon added. ‘Fine, thanks, how are you?’ I said. ‘Good’ musician answered in chorus. But that was pretty clear, that they were not good at all. The huge tiredness was seen in their eyes.
I laid my Dictaphone on the floor. ‘Maybe you want the chairs? There are in the corner, take ‘em’ Jared said. We agreed, took the chairs, sat in front of musicians. It’s funny, but they didn’t offer the chairs to all the people, who were taking an interview before us.
We were warned, that Jared didn’t feel good. That was clearly seen. We were talking to Tomo and Shannon mostly. Jared just looked at us, but that was like he looked through us, and he almost didn’t talk.
Nevertheless, for those modest minutes of our talk, we’ve fished out of ‘Mars’ something interesting.
So, you’ve just come here from Moscow. Tell us couple words about this city, yourmain impressions.
Tomo: Show in Moscow was incredible, unforgettable. We liked Russia a lot.
Shannon: Wonderful people.
Tomo: That was amazing to come back to Russia. And now we’re in Ukraine for the first time, and this is amazing too.
Both Saturday and Sunday Ukrainian fans were on the watch for you at the airport and near the hotel. Many of them met Tomo, but nobody seen Jared and Shannon. Guys, where did you find invisibility cloak?
Shannon: No no, we have awesome ‘wheels’, that made us invisible.
Tomo: That’s right. And I just leave my at home. That happens.
Shannon: Well actually, we arrived from Moscow couple hours before the show, literally.
Tomo: And I’ve come yesterday.
Your last album ‘This Is War’ is solid, epic work with it’s own idea and conception. It’s probably very hard to make step up after that fundamental CD, but maybe you are already thinking of new material, of it’s sound?
Shannon: We’re focused on tour now. We have to finished European tour, then we have US tour. So for now we’re completely focused on ‘This Is War’.
It’s not a secret, that 30 Seconds to Mars have the craziest fans in the world. Really few bands can boast such devoted admirers. Which fans’ presents remarkable most of all for you?
Tomo: The best presents are handmade presents. They’re spending their time and strength. It is inspiring.
Shannon: I think, that the fans themselves are the very best present. The fact, that they give ‘em to us and… ammm… Damn, I messed it up, ok, forget it! (in a whisper, through laugh: ‘God, what the hell am I talking about?’)
Tomo: There were too many wonderful presents to mark out one for the example. We love fan artworks, that based on their interpretation of our songs and glyphs. It’s awesome.
You taking ‘em with you in the tour?
Shannon: Yeah, sure.
Tomo: We have special storage for all this things. One day it’ll all become a wonderful collection.
And you could open the museum.
Shannon: We thought of it.
You’ve presented a new video lately. No, not video, the short film called’Hurricane’. What scenes are your favorite?
Shannon: Oh, there are lots of!
Tomo: Yeah, it’s a hard question.
Shannon: But this part, where Jared jumps through the window was just brain blowing!
Tomo: Yeah, I like that one too. And I also like scene with Shannon in the park.
Shannon: I like Tomo’s hair and the subway scene, oh yeah!
Did some funny things happen on the set of the video?
Jared: (*finally joined the talk) Not that they were funny… There were many impressive moments on the set. Unique. Very difficult. That all was difficult… But funny…
Sometimes creates an impression, that you put your fans’ patience to the test. It’s like you trying how far can you get without losing their devotion and support. For example, your spam with lots of same tweets in Twitter, or your provocative music video ‘Hurricane’, in which you play with sexuality and perversions. Or this strange ‘Hurricane’ single cover. Do you realize, that many of your fans blame 30 Seconds to Mars for their schizophrenia?
Tomo: I’m not afraid. I think, it’s not too apt accusation. You can’t blame your own insanity on someone.
Jared: No, I disagree, Tomo… We have to be responsible for everything we do. And for that too.
Shannon: That’s right.
Tell us about your resent musical impressions. What do you listen, whom you’veopened for yourself?
Tomo: I personally don’t listen too much music, if you wanna know the truth.
Jared: The same here. I haven’t been listening to the music for a long time. I don’t even have an iPod. We’re too busy, traveling constantly. But this year I liked Fever Ray’s album very much. And also this guy.. Jonsy, Ionsy…
Jared: Right.
Shannon: I’ve had some discoveries this year. Listened a lot of Fever Ray. And The Big Pink are great too, know this guys, ha?
Of course, I know. Tell us what are you grateful to this day for?
Tomo: I’m grateful for the opportunity to come to Kiev. This was really a model show, because not every artist has chance to visit Ukraine. Thanks to the people, who helped us to make it possible.
And thank you for coming and for the interview. So in the end we usually ask artists to draw their self-portraits. What do you think?
Tomo: I Pass. I draw bad.
Shannon: Jared draws great.
Jared: Yes, and with great pleasure, give me a paper.
Here .
Jared: I feel bad. Stomachache, you know… And this is what I’m gonna draw.
Jared drew long and infatuating (then he snapped the result, with the words ‘I
need to post it to the Twitter’).
‘While Jared is drawing, can we take come photos?’ we asked despite warning. ‘Yeah, sure, no problem’ – ‘Marses’ answered.
Translated by Natasha Caine
Source
Only three TVchannels, one padiostation and our site were allowed to take an interview. ‘It’s a very difficult artist, with it’s temper, so you have to be careful. Show your respect and don’t make him nervous with stupid questions. And no photos!’ We’ve been warned.
A big sofa was brought into the empty room. Especially for the foreign stars. Interviewer should stand in front of them and ask questions. While one Mass Media was talking with artists, the others were waiting behind the door. All the IEC hall was filled with rows of tables. ‘What was happening in here?’ Jared asked. Organizers explained him that the day before there was the dog show. ‘We don’t need no education’. Tomo hummed Pink Floyd’s lines, associating this tables with school desks.
Shannon was little bit irritated by the treatment. They treated the band like little children. The Band was lead everywhere under guards’, organizers’ and label representatives’ surveillance. ‘What are we? Cows? Oh come on!’ he jokes an escort, smiling.
We were the 5th to take an interview. Me and the photographer came in and stood in front of them. ‘Hi, guys’ Jared greeted us. ‘How are you?’ Shannon added. ‘Fine, thanks, how are you?’ I said. ‘Good’ musician answered in chorus. But that was pretty clear, that they were not good at all. The huge tiredness was seen in their eyes.
I laid my Dictaphone on the floor. ‘Maybe you want the chairs? There are in the corner, take ‘em’ Jared said. We agreed, took the chairs, sat in front of musicians. It’s funny, but they didn’t offer the chairs to all the people, who were taking an interview before us.
We were warned, that Jared didn’t feel good. That was clearly seen. We were talking to Tomo and Shannon mostly. Jared just looked at us, but that was like he looked through us, and he almost didn’t talk.
Nevertheless, for those modest minutes of our talk, we’ve fished out of ‘Mars’ something interesting.
So, you’ve just come here from Moscow. Tell us couple words about this city, yourmain impressions.
Tomo: Show in Moscow was incredible, unforgettable. We liked Russia a lot.
Shannon: Wonderful people.
Tomo: That was amazing to come back to Russia. And now we’re in Ukraine for the first time, and this is amazing too.
Both Saturday and Sunday Ukrainian fans were on the watch for you at the airport and near the hotel. Many of them met Tomo, but nobody seen Jared and Shannon. Guys, where did you find invisibility cloak?
Shannon: No no, we have awesome ‘wheels’, that made us invisible.
Tomo: That’s right. And I just leave my at home. That happens.
Shannon: Well actually, we arrived from Moscow couple hours before the show, literally.
Tomo: And I’ve come yesterday.
Your last album ‘This Is War’ is solid, epic work with it’s own idea and conception. It’s probably very hard to make step up after that fundamental CD, but maybe you are already thinking of new material, of it’s sound?
Shannon: We’re focused on tour now. We have to finished European tour, then we have US tour. So for now we’re completely focused on ‘This Is War’.
It’s not a secret, that 30 Seconds to Mars have the craziest fans in the world. Really few bands can boast such devoted admirers. Which fans’ presents remarkable most of all for you?
Tomo: The best presents are handmade presents. They’re spending their time and strength. It is inspiring.
Shannon: I think, that the fans themselves are the very best present. The fact, that they give ‘em to us and… ammm… Damn, I messed it up, ok, forget it! (in a whisper, through laugh: ‘God, what the hell am I talking about?’)
Tomo: There were too many wonderful presents to mark out one for the example. We love fan artworks, that based on their interpretation of our songs and glyphs. It’s awesome.
You taking ‘em with you in the tour?
Shannon: Yeah, sure.
Tomo: We have special storage for all this things. One day it’ll all become a wonderful collection.
And you could open the museum.
Shannon: We thought of it.
You’ve presented a new video lately. No, not video, the short film called’Hurricane’. What scenes are your favorite?
Shannon: Oh, there are lots of!
Tomo: Yeah, it’s a hard question.
Shannon: But this part, where Jared jumps through the window was just brain blowing!
Tomo: Yeah, I like that one too. And I also like scene with Shannon in the park.
Shannon: I like Tomo’s hair and the subway scene, oh yeah!
Did some funny things happen on the set of the video?
Jared: (*finally joined the talk) Not that they were funny… There were many impressive moments on the set. Unique. Very difficult. That all was difficult… But funny…
Sometimes creates an impression, that you put your fans’ patience to the test. It’s like you trying how far can you get without losing their devotion and support. For example, your spam with lots of same tweets in Twitter, or your provocative music video ‘Hurricane’, in which you play with sexuality and perversions. Or this strange ‘Hurricane’ single cover. Do you realize, that many of your fans blame 30 Seconds to Mars for their schizophrenia?
Tomo: I’m not afraid. I think, it’s not too apt accusation. You can’t blame your own insanity on someone.
Jared: No, I disagree, Tomo… We have to be responsible for everything we do. And for that too.
Shannon: That’s right.
Tell us about your resent musical impressions. What do you listen, whom you’veopened for yourself?
Tomo: I personally don’t listen too much music, if you wanna know the truth.
Jared: The same here. I haven’t been listening to the music for a long time. I don’t even have an iPod. We’re too busy, traveling constantly. But this year I liked Fever Ray’s album very much. And also this guy.. Jonsy, Ionsy…
Jared: Right.
Shannon: I’ve had some discoveries this year. Listened a lot of Fever Ray. And The Big Pink are great too, know this guys, ha?
Of course, I know. Tell us what are you grateful to this day for?
Tomo: I’m grateful for the opportunity to come to Kiev. This was really a model show, because not every artist has chance to visit Ukraine. Thanks to the people, who helped us to make it possible.
And thank you for coming and for the interview. So in the end we usually ask artists to draw their self-portraits. What do you think?
Tomo: I Pass. I draw bad.
Shannon: Jared draws great.
Jared: Yes, and with great pleasure, give me a paper.
Here .
Jared: I feel bad. Stomachache, you know… And this is what I’m gonna draw.
Jared drew long and infatuating (then he snapped the result, with the words ‘I
need to post it to the Twitter’).
‘While Jared is drawing, can we take come photos?’ we asked despite warning. ‘Yeah, sure, no problem’ – ‘Marses’ answered.
Translated by Natasha Caine
Source
12/21/2010
MR NOBODY'S REVIEWS
Magazine : Kino Świat, author: Agnieszka Opyt
FIRST REVIEW :
Rain drop falling from sky into held in hand paper with phone number. The bird is died on fast running car’s pane. Unemployed craftsman, ex- employee of Chinese company which makes a jeans, boils an egg. Everything have consequences, you know: every action make reaction, but without exaggerate. In Jaco van Dormael’s film is no lack of exaggerate, famous butterfly effect is really rewrite in hundred ways and drive into absurdity here. Mentioned rain drop breaks the phone number to lover spectacular, become tomb of love, beginning of madness and homeless. The bird causes spectacular, deadly accident, where dying driver: dear father, dear husband. Egg- egg is beginning of drama too.
Man (always the same): a) is going out of home on suburb (suburbs dreaming about violence), empty out the petrol from red petrol can on stood on driveway car and then set it on fire; b) is flying to Mars in organic cocoon, where he intend to spill ashes of his lover, but before this he died in space crash; c) in dark, humid grotto, clothed like prehistoric man, is trying to frighten away the bear by scream; d) is looming from bath in luxury hotel and die from bullet, which hit him in heart. On this perhaps I’m ending this count, which is able to last and last. Mr. Nobody bending from this kind of pictures- thunderflashes, spectacular micro- scene, loud, but rather harmless. Always something in these must surprises: pattern on a sweater, which becoming pattern of whole world; colour, which flooding action shot; unnatural zoom, which pulling out detail from grey background; huge shoe, bigger than house, which attacking world and questioning its authenticity. This over two hours movie is veritable avalanche of ideas, patents, borrows. And, in fact, that’s all. This is work total: movie about everything made by omnivorous artist. However art- at least it’s seems to me- is skill in choose, selection. Belgian artist behaves, unfortunately, like his character, who in one moment evoking chess’ concept zugzwang, what means situation, where every move only makes player’s situation worse. Unconclusive variantity- shouldn’t it be a name of kind of film, where artist resigns from possibility of relating his story, and instead of this he only playing with potential solutions? However different question seems to be more important: What’s on about in this all? Does Jaco Van Dormael announce end of great narration or maybe absolutite movie itself, making from this an artifact with autoreflexive and autoreferencesive possibilities? Or maybe just making apology of accident or suggesting that only way for film is changing into computer game, where receiver make a decision about walk to the right or left? In this all can see odd huge malaise.
Critics, who write about Mr. Nobody, take notice to inspirations, quotes, whose is so many in movie. They give titles: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, „The Fountain”, „Memento”, “Amelie”, “Matrix”. At last actually can say, that Van Dormael takes inspiration from this films. But however it’s not certain and in fact doesn’t mean anything. One inspiration is however palpable and key. The Polish should be proud: “Mr. Nobody” owe the most to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Blind Chance”. But near this looks- I use my favorite comparison- like kayak near Dar Pomorza. Nemo Nobody resembles Witek Długosz in nothing anyway. At first: is alive, don’t die in a plane. In 2029 is 120 and is last mortal man on Earth, Earth, where at the end of 21st century walking only immortal. Cameras record slow dying of Nemo, and he talking about his life where key moment was one crazy run at railway station. Similarly to Witek, one time he catch a train, other time not, what of course changing his life every time. Difference is, that accident at Kieślowski’s had destiny’s weight, thrusts a character to way, where he can’t move out from, can’t question it, was impulse, beginning of something bigger and didn’t cancel later choices, never alienate him from world and order him to aim with roles, which society enforce to the individual. Instead at Belgian’s one chance makes next, one variant splits to the different variants, and because of this everything in Nemo’s life, in his story is so little important and have so little meaning. Mister Nobody, who is played by Jared Leto, is artificial and imponderable creature, alien, whose don’t concern even such basic things like gravitation or passage of time and its irrevocability.
Van Dormael still trying to conjure reality, suggesting that is different. Really, everything what his character experiencing is extreme, close to ideal, pure- real romantic love, real huge loneliness, real overpowery boring and real irrevocable old age, however in the same time is empty, figure-outing, unauthentic, last to short, has no chance to grow, to steeped in the world. What’s more, movie, what in fact saying about the same about what have said fox in von Trier’s “Antichrist”, it’s mean: chaos rules, in fact can’t be a story about real love. That’s because in the world, where rules chaos, is no truth, no ideas, are only words, what’s an effect of social agreement, nothing more.
Watching “Mr. Nobody” looks like observing someone, who come into your room and starting to play with light switch. One time switch on a light, then switch off, and that without end. Very irritating play (especially for these, who can only observe this). I think that at first, Jaco van Dormael should answer himself on the question, does in the world where reputedly rules chaos, is still sense to make a films at all. It seems to me, that, paraphrase Lech Janerka, in Belgian’s work just sense is rather concave.
SECOND REVIEW
Choice is a kind of borderline experience, which is in connection with strict definite consequences. This is what director of “Mr. Nobody” seem to show, when makes a character from man, who depending of making choices makes himself. Nemo (character, who is played by Jared Leto) get existential experiences: choosing parents, only for deciding in a few years which parent he want to spend rest of his life with. Starting point in this movie is phenomenon and nature of humanity. Jaco van Dormael makes a vision of world of future, but in the same time is ironic and making an objections about conviction, that mechanizity reality comes to more ideal forms. Viewer can observes the world, what stepping in a new phase of its exist- from, we calling it, chaotic diversity to sterile order, where unification of every exist form make fears (conceptional affinity with Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is uninccidentally here). Nemo is the last real mortal man, therefore he becoming an object of examinations, and his upcoming end of life growing to medial event’s rank.
Artistic operation, which putting straight construction of the movie is repetition, what has extra tasks. Because way of mentioning is a way to acquiring new knowledge and experiences. Film shows, how form of human’s life is dependent on choices that he makes. Cause of evolution of incidents is sequence of some- at first sight not so much important- accidents (for example fact, that shoestring in Nemo’s shoe was no so much strong and its broken when Nemo chased after leaving train made changing of all his future life), as a result of these fortune of main character compounding in different ways. Such complicated dramatic structure seems to establish to philosophic reflections of Soren Kierkegaard, who treated repetition as central existential experience. Every variants of repetitions in movie can regard as some kind of recognition form which is given from possibility of new look. World is mosaic made from details- is enough to little changing of their configuration and life gaining a new form, what we see when observing history of Mr. Nobody. In minute things, saying words, gesture, is some kind of mystery. Fact, which on the first look is petty, can turn out to decisive. Dormael’s film give many-meaning character’s portrait, and because of it the referenced character of dramatic structure becomes secondary case and the metaphorical story about a person, emotions, interpersonal relationships getting more important. Nemo moving freely in spaces of his own imagination, and viewer ask oneself is it reality or is it dream? Director wants to show this way, that life isn’t a puzzle of ordering elements, only structure which is a result of inexplicable fortune’s accidents. So he doesn’t concentrate on description of outside world, but rather fathoming a inside of human, who in up against a death making recapitulation of his own life. Movie become a form of score- director experiment with time and moving to talk about nature of existence more perceptive. Mark him a syncretism of species, what misleading a viewer, similarly to inexplicit of dramatics.
Director doesn’t want to make one-dimensional picture of world, from this are that the fragments in science-fiction style (good to mention, that these are parts, which makes Nemo- writer) intertwining with parts in documentary convention (Nemo in scientist role) and drama. Just so presentation whole is affinity to used in film concept of entropy- distraction. World in some senses is in state of entropy and this, compositionally and semantically (so on content and form level) want to get maker of film. No one know answer for question: what will time brings? Nemo in interview with journalist appear as sage-philosopher , who give truths with universal character. When journalist asks, which version of his past is real- old man answer that whole are real and right. And then he quote words of dramatist Tennessee Williams: Whole are real, because none of them have bigger meaning. This philosophical perspective is deepen by statement, that death is not ending, but beginning of everything (because of it last Nemo’s words are: This is the happiest day of my life, and director, creator of introducing reality, doesn’t let Nemo to die).
Picture of reality in movie isn’t optimistic, but it’s difficult to define this as explicit pessimistic vision of current world. Artist looks like sceptic who adopt Cartesian attitude of doubt. Like Cartesian finding out, that if this, what we see in our dreams seems real to us, that to imagine is this, that all, what happened in real is a kind of dream too. Finally Nemo ask journalist does he is sure of his exist. Knowledge in future of human and world’s subject stay a mystery- though we can try to create this, like making Nemo in writer role or Dormael in director role. Reality is incessant changing structure. Its liquid shows appeal to motif of water. Elise saying to Nemo: If I stay, you’ll go under in this with me., whereupon character answer: We’ll learn how to swim.
For the rest, about learning of swim are talking many times in “Mr. Nobody”, what let to wind up, that statement lean to swim can treat synonymous to: learn to life. But… How to acquire this skill, when the only good move is don’t moving…?
FIRST REVIEW :
Rain drop falling from sky into held in hand paper with phone number. The bird is died on fast running car’s pane. Unemployed craftsman, ex- employee of Chinese company which makes a jeans, boils an egg. Everything have consequences, you know: every action make reaction, but without exaggerate. In Jaco van Dormael’s film is no lack of exaggerate, famous butterfly effect is really rewrite in hundred ways and drive into absurdity here. Mentioned rain drop breaks the phone number to lover spectacular, become tomb of love, beginning of madness and homeless. The bird causes spectacular, deadly accident, where dying driver: dear father, dear husband. Egg- egg is beginning of drama too.
Man (always the same): a) is going out of home on suburb (suburbs dreaming about violence), empty out the petrol from red petrol can on stood on driveway car and then set it on fire; b) is flying to Mars in organic cocoon, where he intend to spill ashes of his lover, but before this he died in space crash; c) in dark, humid grotto, clothed like prehistoric man, is trying to frighten away the bear by scream; d) is looming from bath in luxury hotel and die from bullet, which hit him in heart. On this perhaps I’m ending this count, which is able to last and last. Mr. Nobody bending from this kind of pictures- thunderflashes, spectacular micro- scene, loud, but rather harmless. Always something in these must surprises: pattern on a sweater, which becoming pattern of whole world; colour, which flooding action shot; unnatural zoom, which pulling out detail from grey background; huge shoe, bigger than house, which attacking world and questioning its authenticity. This over two hours movie is veritable avalanche of ideas, patents, borrows. And, in fact, that’s all. This is work total: movie about everything made by omnivorous artist. However art- at least it’s seems to me- is skill in choose, selection. Belgian artist behaves, unfortunately, like his character, who in one moment evoking chess’ concept zugzwang, what means situation, where every move only makes player’s situation worse. Unconclusive variantity- shouldn’t it be a name of kind of film, where artist resigns from possibility of relating his story, and instead of this he only playing with potential solutions? However different question seems to be more important: What’s on about in this all? Does Jaco Van Dormael announce end of great narration or maybe absolutite movie itself, making from this an artifact with autoreflexive and autoreferencesive possibilities? Or maybe just making apology of accident or suggesting that only way for film is changing into computer game, where receiver make a decision about walk to the right or left? In this all can see odd huge malaise.
Critics, who write about Mr. Nobody, take notice to inspirations, quotes, whose is so many in movie. They give titles: “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, „The Fountain”, „Memento”, “Amelie”, “Matrix”. At last actually can say, that Van Dormael takes inspiration from this films. But however it’s not certain and in fact doesn’t mean anything. One inspiration is however palpable and key. The Polish should be proud: “Mr. Nobody” owe the most to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Blind Chance”. But near this looks- I use my favorite comparison- like kayak near Dar Pomorza. Nemo Nobody resembles Witek Długosz in nothing anyway. At first: is alive, don’t die in a plane. In 2029 is 120 and is last mortal man on Earth, Earth, where at the end of 21st century walking only immortal. Cameras record slow dying of Nemo, and he talking about his life where key moment was one crazy run at railway station. Similarly to Witek, one time he catch a train, other time not, what of course changing his life every time. Difference is, that accident at Kieślowski’s had destiny’s weight, thrusts a character to way, where he can’t move out from, can’t question it, was impulse, beginning of something bigger and didn’t cancel later choices, never alienate him from world and order him to aim with roles, which society enforce to the individual. Instead at Belgian’s one chance makes next, one variant splits to the different variants, and because of this everything in Nemo’s life, in his story is so little important and have so little meaning. Mister Nobody, who is played by Jared Leto, is artificial and imponderable creature, alien, whose don’t concern even such basic things like gravitation or passage of time and its irrevocability.
Van Dormael still trying to conjure reality, suggesting that is different. Really, everything what his character experiencing is extreme, close to ideal, pure- real romantic love, real huge loneliness, real overpowery boring and real irrevocable old age, however in the same time is empty, figure-outing, unauthentic, last to short, has no chance to grow, to steeped in the world. What’s more, movie, what in fact saying about the same about what have said fox in von Trier’s “Antichrist”, it’s mean: chaos rules, in fact can’t be a story about real love. That’s because in the world, where rules chaos, is no truth, no ideas, are only words, what’s an effect of social agreement, nothing more.
Watching “Mr. Nobody” looks like observing someone, who come into your room and starting to play with light switch. One time switch on a light, then switch off, and that without end. Very irritating play (especially for these, who can only observe this). I think that at first, Jaco van Dormael should answer himself on the question, does in the world where reputedly rules chaos, is still sense to make a films at all. It seems to me, that, paraphrase Lech Janerka, in Belgian’s work just sense is rather concave.
SECOND REVIEW
Choice is a kind of borderline experience, which is in connection with strict definite consequences. This is what director of “Mr. Nobody” seem to show, when makes a character from man, who depending of making choices makes himself. Nemo (character, who is played by Jared Leto) get existential experiences: choosing parents, only for deciding in a few years which parent he want to spend rest of his life with. Starting point in this movie is phenomenon and nature of humanity. Jaco van Dormael makes a vision of world of future, but in the same time is ironic and making an objections about conviction, that mechanizity reality comes to more ideal forms. Viewer can observes the world, what stepping in a new phase of its exist- from, we calling it, chaotic diversity to sterile order, where unification of every exist form make fears (conceptional affinity with Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” is uninccidentally here). Nemo is the last real mortal man, therefore he becoming an object of examinations, and his upcoming end of life growing to medial event’s rank.
Artistic operation, which putting straight construction of the movie is repetition, what has extra tasks. Because way of mentioning is a way to acquiring new knowledge and experiences. Film shows, how form of human’s life is dependent on choices that he makes. Cause of evolution of incidents is sequence of some- at first sight not so much important- accidents (for example fact, that shoestring in Nemo’s shoe was no so much strong and its broken when Nemo chased after leaving train made changing of all his future life), as a result of these fortune of main character compounding in different ways. Such complicated dramatic structure seems to establish to philosophic reflections of Soren Kierkegaard, who treated repetition as central existential experience. Every variants of repetitions in movie can regard as some kind of recognition form which is given from possibility of new look. World is mosaic made from details- is enough to little changing of their configuration and life gaining a new form, what we see when observing history of Mr. Nobody. In minute things, saying words, gesture, is some kind of mystery. Fact, which on the first look is petty, can turn out to decisive. Dormael’s film give many-meaning character’s portrait, and because of it the referenced character of dramatic structure becomes secondary case and the metaphorical story about a person, emotions, interpersonal relationships getting more important. Nemo moving freely in spaces of his own imagination, and viewer ask oneself is it reality or is it dream? Director wants to show this way, that life isn’t a puzzle of ordering elements, only structure which is a result of inexplicable fortune’s accidents. So he doesn’t concentrate on description of outside world, but rather fathoming a inside of human, who in up against a death making recapitulation of his own life. Movie become a form of score- director experiment with time and moving to talk about nature of existence more perceptive. Mark him a syncretism of species, what misleading a viewer, similarly to inexplicit of dramatics.
Director doesn’t want to make one-dimensional picture of world, from this are that the fragments in science-fiction style (good to mention, that these are parts, which makes Nemo- writer) intertwining with parts in documentary convention (Nemo in scientist role) and drama. Just so presentation whole is affinity to used in film concept of entropy- distraction. World in some senses is in state of entropy and this, compositionally and semantically (so on content and form level) want to get maker of film. No one know answer for question: what will time brings? Nemo in interview with journalist appear as sage-philosopher , who give truths with universal character. When journalist asks, which version of his past is real- old man answer that whole are real and right. And then he quote words of dramatist Tennessee Williams: Whole are real, because none of them have bigger meaning. This philosophical perspective is deepen by statement, that death is not ending, but beginning of everything (because of it last Nemo’s words are: This is the happiest day of my life, and director, creator of introducing reality, doesn’t let Nemo to die).
Picture of reality in movie isn’t optimistic, but it’s difficult to define this as explicit pessimistic vision of current world. Artist looks like sceptic who adopt Cartesian attitude of doubt. Like Cartesian finding out, that if this, what we see in our dreams seems real to us, that to imagine is this, that all, what happened in real is a kind of dream too. Finally Nemo ask journalist does he is sure of his exist. Knowledge in future of human and world’s subject stay a mystery- though we can try to create this, like making Nemo in writer role or Dormael in director role. Reality is incessant changing structure. Its liquid shows appeal to motif of water. Elise saying to Nemo: If I stay, you’ll go under in this with me., whereupon character answer: We’ll learn how to swim.
For the rest, about learning of swim are talking many times in “Mr. Nobody”, what let to wind up, that statement lean to swim can treat synonymous to: learn to life. But… How to acquire this skill, when the only good move is don’t moving…?
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