25 January 2003. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a gorgeous, well photographed, well acted, brilliant movie that brings together movie basic movie elements well.
The directing, the cinematography, the lighting, the entire techniques used in this movie capture a new level, a new pathbreaking step towards movie-making, much like Jaws did back in 1975. While not as popular nor as profitable as Jaws, Confessions encompasses a synthesis of great movie-making elements and packages them into an excellent movie for the cerebral and the critical film-going public. Julia Roberts has been cast into a great out of her box role. Sam Rockwell captures Chuck Barris movements and idiosyncracies and George Clooney continues his obsession with the full backside nudity of the male body this time as a director in this movie and as an actor in Solaris. This schizophrenic movie with a twist is full of humor and drama, of character-driven scenes with carefully planned uses of light and shadow, actual interviews intercutting. This is a serious and successful effort by a first-time director. With enchanting performances by Rockwell, Julia, Clooney, and Drew Barrymore.
The directing, the cinematography, the lighting, the entire techniques used in this movie capture a new level, a new pathbreaking step towards movie-making, much like Jaws did back in 1975. While not as popular nor as profitable as Jaws, Confessions encompasses a synthesis of great movie-making elements and packages them into an excellent movie for the cerebral and the critical film-going public. Julia Roberts has been cast into a great out of her box role. Sam Rockwell captures Chuck Barris movements and idiosyncracies and George Clooney continues his obsession with the full backside nudity of the male body this time as a director in this movie and as an actor in Solaris. This schizophrenic movie with a twist is full of humor and drama, of character-driven scenes with carefully planned uses of light and shadow, actual interviews intercutting. This is a serious and successful effort by a first-time director. With enchanting performances by Rockwell, Julia, Clooney, and Drew Barrymore.