This film is visually beautiful, but I felt like the storyline and songs were lacking. I think I would've enjoyed it more if it weren't a musical.
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Reply by D-magic
on July 17, 2017 at 6:44 PM
The music is kinda important element. The sirens sing to hypnotize their pray, their voices is all about driving humans crazy. You can see in in a few scenes the magical power of their singing and how thy affect humans, that consume their voices like a drug. So I think it was very much intentional and justified.
And it is a different kind of storytelling, it is not direct, it doesn't show and explain motivations, there are no direct conversations about feelings and characters hide their emotions. Everything is suggestive and almost clear intentionally, it's a very classical approach in European cinema to storytelling. We are so used to obvious Hollywood style stories, where everything is just explained, where all the reasoning is very clear, that movies like this are deemed strange and lacking something. I loved it, this restrain, these half spoken sentences, these unexpressed feelings. This feeling of lacking is what makes it so good and memorable.
Reply by MaxTyrone
on October 29, 2017 at 5:24 PM
In perhaps a metaphorical approach, I found this lacking kinda fascinating and imperative. The entire premise itself shouldn't make sense. (I honestly couldn't figure out how or why the mermaids went from that opening scene, luring the two band mates, to being contracted by the band.) The visuals of the movie and the music, of which I, personally, thought was catchy, are supposed to lure the audience into this world that shouldn't be. The story involves these myths morphing their image and magical status in order to continue living in the human realm, the realistic realm. I think the film is then an effort to keep some of that magic, by giving us a type of story that looks and sounds nice, but very deceptive, like sirens luring in the sea. I don't know, this is just an inflated opinion of mine. I can see why you wouldn't enjoy it as much.
Reply by rooprect
on October 16, 2021 at 1:42 PM
Way late to the discussion but I recently saw the flick and wanted to chime in a few points I learned from the commentary.