{"id":10009,"date":"2006-09-24T01:13:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T05:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2006-09-24T01:13:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T05:13:29","slug":"now-you-see-me-now-you-dont-most-latszom-most-nem-latszom-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont-most-latszom-most-nem-latszom-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Most l\u00e1tszom, most nem l\u00e1tszom) (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nysm\"<\/a>Filmmaker Sz\u00e1sz poses three riddles to the viewer in only thirty minutes including what\u2019s wrong with this scene? And then there are three more posed to us, but three that will basically give away what this has to offer. Almost in the manner of Shyamalan, Sz\u00e1sz starts the film on a soft note and then builds for a rather surprising albeit predictable climax that worked in the end, and that\u2019s due to the rather excellent performances throughout the short film. Sz\u00e1sz\u2019s film is a solid utterly wrenching supernatural drama that tests not only the audience, but the perceptions of our views into grief, and isolation after grief.<\/p>\n

Can isolation be healthy for you? We can never be sure, but we know it\u2019s had a significant effect on the couple here. And we wonder, and decipher, and we wait for the pay off, and Sz\u00e1sz\u2019s delivery worked because he can truly alleviate the drama with the taut tension. Mom stays home to talk on the phone and shoos away her son, while Dad returns from the lab. He\u2019s just come a step closer to perfecting a chemical that can make people invisible, and he\u2019s triumphant in his own mind. When he returns, suddenly their son disappears, and Sz\u00e1sz unveils the mystery at hand. What happened to him?<\/p>\n

And then, like an onion, Sz\u00e1sz slowly unravels the film\u2019s meaning, and the message of moving on and learning to be alone leaves an after taste that many viewers will relate to. Sz\u00e1sz\u2019s own passion for colors becomes his downfall, and when \u201cNow You See Me\u201d should be focusing on story progression, there we are looking at silent montage upon montage of imagery that\u2019s supposed to mean something, but eventually we tend to lose patient. \u201cNow You See Me\u201d relies too heavily on symbolism and silent imagery, thus we\u2019re left wondering where it\u2019s all going. Not in the way that we\u2019re filled with anticipation, but more in the anxious impatient urgency just waiting for the pay off to come already.<\/p>\n

And while Sz\u00e1sz\u2019s own skill is evident, his experience in directing commercials becomes much too resonant in the message of the story. Constantly, we\u2019re subjected to close-ups, and wide shots that could easily have a product logo fade on-screen, and we wouldn\u2019t be able to tell the difference. Sz\u00e1sz can never really draw away from the imagery of an advertisement, thus the film could never feel enough like a thriller. In spite of relying much too heavily on symbolism and montages, “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t,” is a well paced, wonderfully directed, heart wrenching supernatural drama with great performances and a sad message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filmmaker Sz\u00e1sz poses three riddles to the viewer in only thirty minutes including what\u2019s wrong with this scene? And then there are three more posed to us, but three that will basically give away what this has to offer. Almost in the manner of Shyamalan, Sz\u00e1sz starts the film on a soft note and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[302,367,501,706,938,1087],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-indie-film","tag-n","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}