Review of the movie Ink Heart. Inkwell Worlds
A bookbinder named Mortimer (Brendan Fraser) with his daughter Maggie has been running through bookstores and shops in Europe for nine years in search of a preserved copy of the old fantasy book Inkheart, which was released in limited edition. Mortimer has a wonderful gift: by reading aloud, he is able to move characters and phenomena from books into the real world. However, every time a new character appears from the book in the real world, someone from the surrounding real people moves into the reality of the book. A similar thing happened nine years ago with Mo's wife and Maggie's mother, when he decided to read to them before bedtime from the newly purchased book Ink Heart: the villain from the book named Capricorn got into reality, and the bookbinder's wife disappeared under a dust jacket. Finding a volume of Ink Heart in a second-hand bookstore, Mortimer hopes to bring his wife back by reading the book aloud. But instead, `` calls '' from the book of the selfish hero-fire-eater named Dusthand (Paul Bettany), who, dreaming of going back, drags Mo and his daughter into a fairy-tale adventure binding. Have you ever been in awe of the bookshelves in the library? Did you get the feeling that all these volumes are whispering something to you, promising to tell amazing stories? The Ink Heart, based on the first book of a three-volume book by the German children's writer Corneli Funke, was movieed primarily for young bibliophiles and book lovers who feel real magic in a library or bookstore. The idea of transferring the characters of the book into reality, and real people into the book and vice versa, which is the basis of the book and the movie adaptation, is brilliant and very intriguing in itself. The world and the characters in books are sometimes much more real and alive than real people, which is metaphorically understandable for reading adults, and it is interesting for children to feel literally. This literality of the connection of reality and the worlds of all interesting books in the world in the first minutes of the movie addictive. From the fairy tale, the complex and beautiful fire-eater, Dust-Hand, emerges onto the Italian streets; later, the colorful villains, the thief boy from The Thousand and One Nights, will appear. and even Toto, fished out of the Kansas desert. This abundance of possibilities is breathtaking for a second – you begin to fantasize what kind of twist can be arranged by combining different characters from your favorite books in the frame and allowing them to interact! But the German writer, or the screenwriters of the movie adaptation, obviously lacks the imagination to compose a really fascinating story in which at least all of the listed heroes would be involved. Characters stagger across the screen, perform some obvious and often rather meaningless actions and, on the whole, look more complicated and interesting than the reality they proposed. The intrigue with the rescue of Mortimer's wife is too monosyllabic, even for the smallest; the villain Capricorn builds some villainous, but it seems that even he himself does not fully understand plans, while the rest simply move back and forth across the screen, trying to be useful somewhere and cheer up the sagging story. As a result, instead of a fascinating fairy tale, the audience gets only a few interesting and magical moments – both in the stories of the heroes in the interactions between them, and among the special effects, which are here in limited quantities. A tornado from Kansas throws a wooden house into the air and brings it down on the road; a huge smoky ghost, nicknamed the Shadow, swirls in the valley above the castle of Capricorn and burns with fiery eye sockets and a mouth in the manner of a Balrog; fire-eater Dusthand meets its creator – the author of Inkheart, and does not want to know about the finale of his story ... If this movie teaches anyone anything, then – the younger generation of writers are responsible for the worlds extracted from the inkwell. After all, if it were really possible to force Cornelia Funke and the writers of Inkheart, - and indeed all mediocre screenwriters! – meet their characters, they would probably fall into a book out of shame. The Topic of Article: Review of the movie Ink Heart. Inkwell Worlds. |
