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Ventnor Library’s professional and firmly established approach to select films that have a high calibre of impressiveness continues with the presentation of ‘Skyline’.
An American film with a premise of setting a developing story within the city of Los Angeles, in essence, ‘Skyline’ is extremely simple to follow. In some way its basis could be seen as unoriginal, due to its similarity towards American B-Movies of the 1950’s.
Ground-breaking special effects
Rather than an explanation within dialogue to hold together a narrative, or opt for characters to say things which would reveal how ridiculous the setting of the film actually is, The Brothers Strause direct a film that accentuates the newness of special effects and what can now be achieved.
‘Skyline’ develops extremely quickly and yet the complete determination to approach an old idea but aim for visual overload and massive scale are the exciting features of the cinematic experience.
Great impact
For some viewers ‘Skyline’ would perhaps be too much visually and lacking in explained dialogue as to what is occurring throughout. Yet with ‘Skyline’, the impact that the film can cause through its visualisation is a demonstration of extreme talent, excitement constantly being generated and an opening of the imagination.
The sub-plot that continues throughout ‘Skyline’ is a love story, on such a subtle level, the constant running strength throughout ‘Skyline’.
As a subtle introduction that develops and grows so incredibly fast and reflects an extremely deep idea from the very start, ‘Skyline’ changes in scope and evolves at a staggering pace.
The importance of ‘Skyline’ is that The Brothers Strausse do however, prove a theory that love is extremely powerful and yet do this even, in a very new way.
