Self/less

«Without me your mind will relapse. I`m the only one standing between you and oblivion ».

A native of India and a graduate of California Tarsem Singh is known for bringing the viewer to visualize your films to perfection, almost transforming them into paintings, endowed with movement. These were his fairy tale for adults "Outland" and stylized mythological tale "Immortals." In the case of "Beyond the self" Singh decided to leave the traditional aesthetic absolutism inherent beauty and symmetry in its correct form, which turns any story in the epic, and refer to the canons of the style indie. However, combining unconventional perspectives and plans, as well as the muted color saturation with the philosophy of the moral equilibrium of proportion, "I / friend."



Fading health sphere successful player of the New York real estate, makes appeal to the aged hero forefront of science, the physical embodiment of which is a beautiful pedantic Dr. Albright, promised to return the youth for the price of 250 million tons. However, the procedure has extreme side effects, which are the basis for the development of the plot. And who found bygone youth, Damian faced with a difficult choice between maintaining their own well-being and the destruction of someone else's life.

The fact that the script of the film is full of melodrama, prevail over the value content, it could be assumed even at the time of the promotional trailers, which contain the full description of the first 60 minutes of the two-hour narrative, revealing the essence of the story, leaving no mysteries, but only hope the potential entertainment. Similarly, as details outlining the events of the film and a promo picture "Transcendence" Wally Pfister, similar to the "Beyond the self" as an anthropological theme, and not enough thought out combining philosophy and screen history, meaning and artistic expression.

Singh admits the same methodological mistake as Pfister, seeking to simplify the proposed thesis, make them understandable for the average consumer. Painting with Johnny Depp in the title role and the concept of the doctrine of Immanuel Kant in the name of telling us about the dominant reason as a universal principle of ontology, the output for the redistribution of the human understanding, Tarsem also relates to aspects of personality, his key question is simple: "What is more precious - my own I or others? "solve the issue of Singh in the key of idealism, but tells about the language of primitive, do not focus on the personality of the hero, as it should be, in his anguish and reconciliation with the timeframe, limiting the existence of man, but at the same time understanding that eternity can find not hit in the City of God, Augustine wrote, but only the realization of the fact that man is capitalized.

But instead of filling his film characters and bring allegory to the maximum level, such as did Denis Villeneuve in his "enemy", which considers a similar theme quest of self, Singh enters into the narrative a romantic heroine, condemning the audience familiar with the concepts of " I'm not-I, "in the view of something resembling a Portuguese series. Writing in a romantic plot line can be explained solely by the desire to bring to the cinema the widest possible audience, and with all the skill of the operator Brendan Galvin and production designer, sometimes "beside himself" looks extremely clumsy and primitive. By the way, Natalie Martinez, responsible for the main female role, appears extremely unfortunate choice, since given that beauty, as a rule, seeks to connect with the beauty, it is unlikely such a pedigree as a hero Damian (Ryan Reynolds) would be interested in such a homely girl. In other words, even taking as a given the extreme primitivization potentially interesting story, watch the beauty of love relationships are also not possible due to their unconvincing and detachment.

Complaints and criticism "beside himself" lie exclusively in the plane of the ratio of different genres of its components. Promotional materials promise a psychological thriller in the format of action, but the story of the pursuit of youth is gravitating more to the drama, not the high-definition entertainment. On the one hand deprives the right picture of the part of the audience that consists of spectators who came to the cinema for the purpose of consumption, not understanding, contentment specials. effects, and "Beyond the self" does not a blockbuster with a budget of 26 million dollars be interprets science fiction into reality as close as possible to the interior of everyday life. But on the other hand, poorly conceptualized meaning-substantial part, not endowed with the very metaphors makes "beside himself" boring and predictable film for the viewer think and feel, you will easily be able to say what the outcome of the story after only 15 five minutes after the start .



Find the perfect balance of form and content of Tarsus succeeded in "Outland" in which he expressed himself solely a way that makes the story of the unfortunate Roy and little Alexandria understandable even to a child, but endowed with meaning, intended for the public, replacement overtones and analyzing the essence, not just art Kinorasskaz aspects. But "Beyond the self" is not unique "Outland", represent exemplary auteur cinema, without the intervention of majors and producers focused solely on box office. The script for "Outside of myself," written by David and Alex Pastor, in a summary that only horror movies of average quality.

Knowing a lot about the beautiful Tarsem Singh, previous cases the protagonists of his films Armie Hammer and Lee Pace, this time exploring the spectacular appearance in detail and dramatic talent of Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds copes admirably with his slozhnoskonstruirovannym screen character, and demonstrates excellent physical preparation. But his kinopartner Matthew Goode, who is the image of the "Outside itself" would have looked perfect team "Kingsmen" does not get enough screen time to reveal his character. It is obvious that his doctor Albright is a controversial character, and his confrontation with Damian Ryan Reynolds is, in fact, fight the senses and the mind, the irrational and the rational.

Ideally, "beside himself" I had to be something like "Hannah's" Joe Wright, where innuendo combined with visual elegance are born multi-variant interpretation. But things are known, often does not match properly. "Beside himself" a quality action movie, philosophical component of which is held exclusively charisma and talent of the central actors, as well as the work of art directors, often enough, but extremely accurate mapping out the emphasis is on the person of the protagonist, making it the center of all that is happening. But the climax of drama that was supposed to testify about humanity and sacrifice, becoming an "Out of him" in the prologue to the extremely banal happy end, devoid of any podtektsa.

Hard to say what was the determining factor of transformation "beside himself" in a fairly straightforward film. Whether the matter is that ordinary writers, whether rated PG-13, does not allow to show the passion (in all senses of the word) that the creator demonstrated exemplary dramas of William Shakespeare. But amid the senseless craft, "beside himself" stands out though unrealized, but the declared intent of the order other than that usually offers a wide release. In the end, the viewer thinking with good imagination, he can finish a full-screen diagram and understand its history, in the words of Dr. Albright: «It will take a few days, but it gets easier».