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May 25, 2005
Color me Punch Drunk
In Senses of Cinema, writer Cubie King does a stalwart job of decoding color in Punch Drunk Love, illustrating points with stills. He winds up intoxicated himself: "One can't help but draw comparisons between Punch Drunk Love and the 1927 [silent] masterpiece< i>Sunrise (F.W. Murnau). Both are romance films, both have leading men who are in constant struggle with their environments, and both end with the world (and the film) back in harmony with itself. But, more important, both films take important steps in forwarding a cinematic language based less on dialogue (Murnau had no choice) and more on how a story can be told replete with image and sound, "Cinema to be cinema."
Posted by at May 25, 2005 10:09 AM
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