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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 394035" data-attributes="member: 57984">For the above-mentioned reasons, I've always sort of seen the 1970s as the peak of cinema -- what some people have called its "ugly naturalism" (although I didn't find it particularly ugly). The shift into the '80s, where everything became too controlled and contrived, was something I was acutely aware of at the time, and I mostly didn't like very much.It's hard to explain why the concept of an ice storm always seemed to me the perfect backdrop for a period film set in the early-'70s -- because, obviously, every year of every decade has a winter. Yet I did. Long before Ang Lee ever made a period film set in the early-'70s literally called THE ICE STORM, written by Rick Moody (appropriately)... But it's the same reason that, outside of the 1940s, the best time to capture "Christmas" is the early-'70s... And I'm old enough to recall that there seemed to be a lot of ice storms in the early-'70s, and they were memorable, somehow definitive of that era, in a way that goes beyond my subjective youth of that moment. (That said, the author is only a little older than I am).It's difficult to describe an organic mood. It's like trying to describe a musical note or a color -- without necessarily having the language available to make comparisons. How does one describe deeply melancholy Christmas color noir?I've said previously that the snow angels/ice skating scenes from LOVE STORY, and the first season theme design and orchestration from THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, and the entire movie of HAROLD & MAUDE, captures that mood perfectly, with the montage-y, mesmerizingly heartbroken flavor of the time. (Although there are many cinematic examples).I had my issues with THE ICE STORM -- at least it came out in the '90s (where they could do period detail) instead of the '80s (when they largely couldn't) and I went to see it in the theatre the week it opened. Physically, Lee made a great effort, and he was obviously attempting to capture the right elements, but I still found it a wee bit too self-conscious in its execution; too many things about the dialogue and the performances made my sphincters twitch slightly. The emerging "look what we've done to our children" motif of the movie was a noble one, but felt a little forced.Still, I appreciated the attempt. Yet I've rarely re-watched it.<img src="https://www.flickfeast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TIS2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 763px" /></blockquote>

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