When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
05 Dec Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Lens Flare
I’ve put Abrams in the same category as Soderbergh and Kubrick but only as a junior member.
These are directors that do all the production stuff excellently, but whose creative life is in what the camera brings. They see the film not as storyboards (like, say Spielberg) but as the dynamic vision the storyboards represent.
That’s why Abrams likes to acknowledge the camera. He does so by his sweeps, by his slightly unusual colour balance. In places he likes to play with unusual depth of field. In his best film (Super 8), he makes the camera an onscreen character. But none of these has the power of his lens flares.
He is so in love with them that he has a dedicated team that adds them in artificially. Because unlike Malick he isn’t going to wait for the 20 minutes of perfect, natural light per day.
I find it too cartoony, and suspect that in a few years we will laugh at this. But I surely do celebrate the man’s love of the camera and how he shares it.
Posted in 2015
Ted’s Evaluation — 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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