Cinema trip: The long goodbye

The women stands up in front of the crowd of somewhat tired looking CCW students explaining how cinema was not necessarily meant to be relaxing and although last weeks film was far from enjoyable in this sense, this week the film was better. The film was intelligent, the camera didn't really stop moving throughout the entire film which I found for this age film wierd. Yet it made me feel more involved in the film which I liked, giving a better overview and more involved with the characters emotions. Yet perhaps in some places during the film this was inappropriate for example after violence, I think if the camera stopped moving here the violencee would become even more dramatic.  In the 'long goodbye' Altman uses the same ideas ingredients of a traditional detective fiction but manages to stir them up in a different way. Immediately at the start of the film we are introduced to Marlowe's somewhat bizare relationship with his cat and next, to a group of naked women living next door. Yet over the course of the film these are constantly bought in and become an important part of this dectective film, I feel it allows Marlowe and the story to be more believeable. I found the film is suprisingly unviolent and yet this somehow appeals as when violence does occur, it makes you sit up and look as it is even more shocking both in the severity and in some cases randomness of why it is used.
Finally the music... ermmm yes and no, I liked how the same piece played at varying points int he film bought events together and made you flick and link different scenes, yet I found the same song again and agian rather boring, yet perhaps at the time it was just a clever way form the audiences point of view, to piece the film together.
Overall- better than last week, fewer characters to keep track of meant it was easier to follow, moreover I found the rare use of violence compared to Slacker made the film much more engaging. Humour with the cat and  hippy group next door also helped to lift this film above the previous one.