Red Knot

This looked like it might have been a good movie. The music and the cinematography appeared to have been well done. But the sound level was very low, and the dang DVD didn't have any subtitles or captioning, so the dialogue was a mystery to me. I'm sure the characters were saying important things to each other, but they might as well have stayed silent.

I'm not planning on giving this movie any particular number of stars (unless the website forces me to, in which case I'll give it 5 stars since it's a toss-up), because how can I rate a movie I never really experienced? This is very frustrating.

Note to filmmakers, DVD makers, or whoever it is that's responsible for what goes on the DVD: INCLUDE A CAPTIONING OPTION!

This is really well done. It's subtleties make this movie particularly good. Performances are very well balanced - not overdone, a lot of really good non-verbal delivery. Olivia is brilliant and Vincent nails it too. Great editing/pacing. Great cinematography. Perfect shots of incredible vistas, wildlife, weather, the sea. On location to Antarctica - can't imagine pulling that off. All locations actual - including the tight confines of the ship (required shooting through mirrors). Very effective music score. Main potential criticism is lack of story, but I don't think that's the case. There's a magnitude of story and many layers between the lines - though appreciation is likely reliant on the viewer's degree of personal life experience.

Positive: To whomever invented FF. Negatives: 1. Glacial - as one person described it. Well, if watching ice melt is your thing then have at it. 2. If sharing "selfies" with the world and former friends (used to be friends until you inundated them with "selfless") then the preponderance of head/facial closeups, mostly of our couple, will have you screaming for an escape. 3. If simulated sex on a bunk bed excites, there is some of that too, but it was pretty boring. 4. Not very believable expedition behavior on the part of everyone from scientists to ship captain. Acting was too scripted, and rote reading robotic. 5. Even the more documentary aspects were brief and cheap e.g. whale in ocean, penguin on land, ice wherever it happens to pop up. 6. Even the background music throughout the film didn't fit with the environment. Sounded monotonic like a cello out of tune. I suppose it was to represent isolation/vast desolation. I would just as soon go into a closet and shut the door.

I guess this one was never released to the major or minor medias. I found it on Hulu and was tempted enough to watch it.

Cinematography is stunningly good. The storyline is straight forward without complicated schemes involved. Apparently, that is the problem. There was in need for some melodramatic scenes to make points. It's too clean and fluid. Some details of main characters' past should have been prevailed into the current. It's not bad or anything but it's not impressed enough to become memorable.

I supposed the director tried to use Antarctica as a backdrop to display human behaviors. However, I felt the whole story had little to do with the location. They were a young and married couple. Disagreements and arguments happened just like others at that age. They were not exceptional in any ways with or without being in Antarctica. They could have been arguing on the busy street in New York City as well. The locations of where they were would not matter. That was also the reason why elaborating plots needed to avoid the commonalities.

The visual is good. It has the quality of documentary films. It just needed some booze.

... you know because of what's happening and dynamics of their situation, there's going to be an "encounter' between her and the attractive-sultry-captain... yet don't blink long, for time it takes to say "can I come in"... is the entirety of the infidelity scene(s) in the movie... this is the kind of film that what's not being-said-shown is as important (or more) as what is... cast is good yet Antarctica, this wondrous place, is pretty much the star of this work... Thirlby coming in a merited-second

... the very dubious ending actually messes everything up quite a bit, the rest before being somewhat logical, it's the last few minutes that will leave many baffled as to what has taken place... like the title 'Red Knot'.. after a long migration, winding up lost?