Comments on: Its Oh So White http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/its-oh-so-white/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 02:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: swanstep http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/its-oh-so-white/#comment-662650 swanstep Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:19:06 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=16228#comment-662650 Whiteout does indeed sound (from all reviews) like a waste of a movie. Snow etc. gives you an incredible combination of lots and lots of light around with abstraction/stylization/purification of the landscape. That often has helped make for wonderfully atmospheric films (Fargo, Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, Simple Plan, The Claim, even Eternal Sunshine, etc.). This has perhaps tempted inferior filmmakers to use the same element, without really thinking about what they want to do with it. I've been in one true whiteout, and I can report that it was an amazing experience. Most surprising part: losing all depth of vision confounded the vertical. I was in a car and had the *very* vivid impression(for at least 15 minutes) of driving into nothing, and moving slowly, not forward (no depth remember) but *vertically* up a blank page. Lastly, straight guys everywhere shed a further tear for Beckinsale's inability to get herself into a watchable film. Whiteout does indeed sound (from all reviews) like a waste of a movie. Snow etc. gives you an incredible combination of lots and lots of light around with abstraction/stylization/purification of the landscape. That often has helped make for wonderfully atmospheric films (Fargo, Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, Simple Plan, The Claim, even Eternal Sunshine, etc.). This has perhaps tempted inferior filmmakers to use the same element, without really thinking about what they want to do with it.

I’ve been in one true whiteout, and I can report that it was an amazing experience. Most surprising part: losing all depth of vision confounded the vertical. I was in a car and had the *very* vivid impression(for at least 15 minutes) of driving into nothing, and moving slowly, not forward (no depth remember) but *vertically* up a blank page.

Lastly, straight guys everywhere shed a further tear for Beckinsale’s inability to get herself into a watchable film.

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