The Crow

Hello my lovelies,

What a miserable, rainy Wednesday it is. But you're getting two posts this week to make up for last weeks one. Today's film I have actually seen before but had been asked to watch it again so that it could go on the blog so here we go. However I don't feel like I have a lot to say about it as although I liked it, I still feel like I could've walked away and not been worried about missing much.

Directed by Alex Proyas in 1994, The Crow is a weird mix between fantasy and action with a neo-noir style. It's a bit of a very weird love story to be honest, the film follows a rock musician who is revived from the dead to get revenge on those involved in his murder and the death of his fiancée.

I can't remember what I thought of this film the first time I watched it many years ago, but I think I was still kinda young, so knowing me I would've found it scary for some reason, however it is definitely not a scary film. The Crow is more of a slightly creepy and eerie film at times, but also slightly funny in an odd way (maybe that's just me being weird).

At times it definitely felt like it was very much sex, drugs and rock & roll orientated and then at other moments it was just weird. I didn't dislike the film but I don't think it would make it into my list of favourites. I thought some of the camera shots worked well and I liked the way that Eric (Brandon Lee) was able to see through the eyes of the crow when looking for those to take revenge upon. The whole film is in very dull colour with the main ones being blacks and dark red and although the flashbacks were the same style they were brighter.

Towards the end of the film I found myself getting strangely attached to Eric and although I knew he was already dead in a way and would have to go back to being so at the end, I didn't want him to leave Sarah again. Personally the character that I liked the least is Myca (Bai Ling), I just couldn't understand the way she was. She was very strange and creeped me out quite a bit to be honest, no normal person cuts outs someone's eyes because they like them, just saying.

It's a good film and I may watch it again one day but I don't think its one that I would normally go out of my way to look for and watch. If fantasy action films are your sort of thing then totally give it a go, its definitely different and I hope you'll like Eric as much as I did.

Until next time, thanks for reading :) x