Master and Commander—I realized I like Peter Weir’s movies, right from his earliest such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, Witness, and The Year of Living Dangerously, and now Master and Commander. But I didn’t like this one as much as the fans who put it on their top ten list. The story wasn’t much, and the sound was the worst of the year. But the sense of history was great. The movie created a feeling of what it was like to be crammed on a sailing ship, to be trapped by cannon fire, and to live in an era before telecommunication and modern technology. You could see the enemy ship sailing away from you on the horizon, and there were no aircraft carriers with jets and telecommunications and radar and GPS and cruise missiles—there was just two ships, two crews, and the wind.
Jim Bell
posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:00 AM by JimBell