In the first week of 2023, the Netflix platform released the movie “The Pale Blue Eye” starring Christian Bale, which is a work of excitement and suspense.
Before adding it to the platform, Netflix showed the film in a limited way in some cinemas, which is a rumor to give films the opportunity to run for awards.
But Christian Bale's movie will not get a new Oscar nomination, but it is sure to be an entertaining movie for viewers, and makes them hesitate between their desire to close their eyes to escape scary scenes or their fear of missing a shot that might change events.
A crime so grizzly, only Edgar Allan Poe can help solve it.
Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, and Robert Duvall star in the chilling period drama The Pale Blue Eye, now on Netflix.
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson are of a special kind
In the film, Christian Bale plays the role of the fictional character "Augustus Landor", a retired and widowed police detective who lives alone in his cabin in a suburb of New York in the 1830s. He has a good reputation for his ability to solve the most difficult cases.
The US War Academy summons the former investigator to investigate the case of a student's suicide, and it quickly becomes clear that it is a murder after someone removes the victim's heart while the body is in the morgue.
During his interrogation of the dead man's colleagues, Augustus Landor meets the young American poet Edgar Allen Poe, one of the academy's students in this period, who has a special interest in crimes and terrifying atmosphere, which then develops in his literature, and he is a real character whose existence was assumed in this film world.
Allen Poe's intelligence and special style of seeing reality helped the retired detective solve the crime.
Allan Poe was then a poet, but he had not yet attained the fame he had gained as a detective in terrifying cases.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard, the film focuses on the fictional crime that supposedly led the poet in this direction (the investigation of crimes), and reinforced his penchant for death and dark, sad romance.
It is noteworthy that neither literary nor cinematic work referred to the poet's alcohol addiction later in his life, but the wise and intelligent side of it was highlighted.
Harry Melling's performance as Edgar Allan Poe gave her a sense of humor (social networking sites)
The character of the poet Alan Poe was embodied by the actor Harry Mealing, a role that was previously offered to the talented young Timothy Chlamy, and he needed the latter’s calm and charismatic style in injecting life into the character, but Mealing’s performance gave her a sense of humor at times, and he was not convinced of what It is enough in intense and violent scenes.
In contrast to Mealing's performance, Christian Bale's performance was always charming, as he was able to provide a real addition to a mediocre film with his great talent.
In this work, he plays a role similar to a sadder version of the famous Sherlock Holmes, who suffers from loneliness and emptiness, and finds in the young Edgar Allan Poe a partner similar to Watson's status with Holmes, and at the same time a more parental relationship.
Watching @mrharrymelling play Edgar Allan Poe in THE PALE BLUE EYE on @netflix.
On the wall in the living room is this #caricature painting of Poe by @TealCartoons, and we are both marveling at how much the actor looks like the poet.
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— Dr Lindsey Fitzharris (@DrLindseyFitz) January 8, 2023
Scary Gothic New York
New York or the Big Apple, as it is rumored, has a special modern character that comes to mind when you hear its name, but the movie "The Pale Blue Eye" recreated another gloomy and cold New York that resembles European Gothic villages in old horror stories, thanks to Masanobu Takayanagi's photography, which used degrees The gray and blue of the students' uniforms at the academy, to illustrate the coldness of this world in which a crime with such violence might occur.
The movie "The Pale Blue Eye" is not just a thriller and the search for a murderer, but it is the story of a man whose life collapses in a very cold world, so he finds Wanissa only a poet who loves horror stories, and a frightening crime, motivated by passion that seems completely contradictory to his static world, and the use of real character For the poet Edgar Allan Poe it is nothing but a metaphor for this hero's turbulent world.
The poet possessed both sides at the same time, romance, intense emotionality, and a fondness for death, loss, loss, and horror. He wrote frightening poems and very poetic horror stories at the same time, becoming the legitimate father of modern American horror and crime literature.
The similarities between the filmic world of Pale Blue Eye and the Sherlock Holmes stories go beyond the detective hero and his Watson-like sidekick, Arthur Conan Doyle's novels are also famous for their London, a cold, misty city of grays and blues.
Director Scott Cooper made a parallel world in New York, as the coldness of this city made the state of suspense and excitement escalate among the viewer, so that the city becomes unlike any other version we have seen of the Big Apple, and at the same time directly active in the events, and reflects the isolation experienced by the characters, or even the military academy reclusive.
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- Can Ahmet Çelik (@canahmetcelikk) January 7, 2023
The movie "The Pale Blue Eye" may not be Christian Bale's best work, and it is not even comparable to the other films he made with the same director, but it is a movie added to the Netflix platform, and it deserved a 64% rating from critics on the "Rotten Tomatoes" site of critics. and a significantly higher percentage - 73% - of viewers.