Dorian Gray 2009 by AverageMansReviews

Dorian Gray 2009 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/stabbing/animal cruelty/chopping/choking/vehicle hit/drowning/suicide/child abuse/homosexuality/burning/transformation/disfigurement

I know I wasted my time watching the film, but I would recommend you don't do the same: briefly; we need Dorian Gray [Ben Barnes:] he is originally a good young man, but slowly but surely gets corrupted by Henry Wotton [Colin Firth:] a slightly older man which enjoys the finer things in life and we have Basil Hallward [Ben Chaplin:] he is a painter that paints Gray's portrait that has strange goings-on about it.

Generally speaking: straight off the bat; this film is completely and utterly forgettable, even though I had just watched it some days ago now: Usually yes I would put something like script, framework and pacing and in some cases so on and so forth which I will do all the rest of this content, but for here and now there is an any point of doing this, simply because this film in its entirety is and I am being nice; extremely nice when I say this; this film is complete and utter garbage.

The script, framework and pacing of this 112 minutes film; okay there is the bare minimum of things going on, but there is no, absolutely none get up and go to it so this 112 minutes feels so incredibly longer than what it actually is; in fact on seeing 112 minutes if it wasn't in front of me I wouldn't believe it that is for sure I think we have multiple time jumps all over the place I think, this would be a good time to say I really don't care about this film.

Art and action; the only consistent positive is the scene construction, wardrobe and basically everything that makes this a period drama: visually and the action sequences are a dismal and lacklustre.

Character developments and performances; well it has to be said with or without the framework and pacing and everything else on top minus the positives, the character developments and performances; well I get the metaphor and symbolism of what happens to Gray; but it is so poorly executed, on top of that it feels really empty and void of charisma or/and charm on one hand and individually or together; you could say that the character developments and/or the performances have been left an impossible task to fill up all of this empty space, as a consequence of the framework and pacing of this film being the way it is or/and on the other hand you could say putting that to one side for a minute on their own merits; there isn't any real substance to them in the first place and no one is stepping up to be a driving force behind this film or anything like that, you know put this film on your back or/and backs and carry it at least that way I have potentially something other to be positive about, yet again back in reality instead of doing this; everyone has a parachute on; then jumping out of a plane just to realise that they have a massive hole in their individual parachutes: there is zero chemistry throughout this cast, unless they were going for real authentic British controlling oneself from this time period, which would then explain the zero chemistry [yes I am being sarcastic/facetious here.

This film receives: 1/10, this film is poor; this is one of those rare occasions that I am just happy to get through this film and never see it again, I watched this film with the person I want some others contend with and I don't have to ask this individual in this case; but I think we can both agree never to watch it again or in my case if I mysteriously lose this content then I have no other choice. But somehow pigs flew and somehow this film as 1 positive Nomination to its name in the form of: Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2009 Best Film Oliver Parker