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Evil Memes And How To Defeat Them
Aug. 20th, 2005 09:46 pm30 July 2005
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - Vintage 2004
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I saw a television adaptation of this last year, and was somewhat annoyed by the director's decision to film it in a Dogme style using hand-held wobbly camera work and extreme close-ups, which struck me as an artistically pretentious attempt to sex up a staid Victorian novel. Having now read the book, I have to say that it was actually an appropriate style - Dostoevsky's extreme emotionalism means that the book has a febrile, frenetic atmosphere which could not have been conveyed through conventional settled camera work. My misunderstanding was natural though, for Crime and Punishment is about as unconventional a Victorian novel as you could possibly imagine.
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky - Vintage 2004
* * * * *
I saw a television adaptation of this last year, and was somewhat annoyed by the director's decision to film it in a Dogme style using hand-held wobbly camera work and extreme close-ups, which struck me as an artistically pretentious attempt to sex up a staid Victorian novel. Having now read the book, I have to say that it was actually an appropriate style - Dostoevsky's extreme emotionalism means that the book has a febrile, frenetic atmosphere which could not have been conveyed through conventional settled camera work. My misunderstanding was natural though, for Crime and Punishment is about as unconventional a Victorian novel as you could possibly imagine.
( Read more... )