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Old 07-22-2010, 09:33 PM   #5491
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Nailed to perfection? I got annoyed the 40th time that Tom Ford made the colors bloom brightly out of the film's normal sepia tone. It was the visual equivalent of an overeager score: pretty but obvious to the point of being emotion-by-numbers. I also thought that they ending was self-defeating. But man did Colin Firth act the Hell out of his character. He was tremendous (and, yes, Jeff Bridges was on-par and probably better).
To each their own. I thought the color change was brilliant. In fact, I didn't think it really did anything emotionally. All it did for me was highlight what Firth's character was focusing on at a given moment. It didn't instruct me on how to feel a la Giachinno's LOST score.
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