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From the first image--Renton jumps over the camera and hurtles down the street as store detectives chase after him, Iggy Pop's Lust for Life hammers the sound track, and Renton delivers his "Choose life" speech--the film is a nonstop visual and aural assault. Slo-mo, fast-mo, a hallucinogenic editing pace and the thick music of Scottish accents mean that you'll have to cram for Trainspotting. Attention must be paid, and will be rewarded with the scabrous savor of the movie's lightning intelligence. The subject is heroin, but the style is speed. This film...
...stated by curator Marilyn A. Zeitlin as "the frustration and vanity of communication," seems simplistically overt. But the images of the faces themselves are so interesting, so cragged with subtle shades of dark and light, depth and surface, that their collective, somewhat pat "meaning" does a disservice to their visual complexity. There is also a certain ludicrousness to a message of "non-communication" being communicated so thoroughly through Viola's work...
This conclusion becomes even more apparent through a comparison of the weakest installation, "Presence," which relies entirely on the spoken word, versus the most potent installation, "Interval," at which visual images are presented so quickly as to defy cognition. "Presence," in which the audience sits on a bench in a dim room while an audiotape of a woman's fretting over her childhood is played at varying levels of volume and clarity, is a tribute to the most banal of self-help confessionals, rather than focusing the audience's attention on a little examined sense, the nature of sound. "Interval...
After all this visual and aural input, the final installation of the series, "The Greeting," is a break-through exploration of the power of a single, wordless gesture. In this video, presented simply in an empty room on a conventional screen, two women are approached by a third who embraces one of the women and whispers something in her ear. A few seconds of film is stretched to twenty times its original length, and every subtle, lovely element of the total motion is exposed to attention our impatient eyes would typically be unable to observe. The piece is simple, monumental...
...that allows one to experience science fiction with a sense of free, Indiana Jones-type adventure spirit. Aliens with bulky heads resembling AWACS spy planes, swooping air battles, visions of destruction on a Biblical scale -- you can see it all here. The movie therefore delivers excitement in the familiar visual vocabulary of past classics, but skillfully updated with a cheerful feel for the epic. Oh, and don't forget such hard-to-beat signature shots as the encroaching shadows and rolling atmospheric disturbances of the spacecraft, or the annihilation of a landmark...