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Just after the Cannes festival the Toronto Film Festival is one of the highest praised in the movie industry. Usually showing some of the movies that go on to win Oscars in February. This year the festival showed an outstanding 258 films! More than any other this year so far. The two most anticipated movies so far are two of my most anticipated movies as well. "Black Swan" and "127 Hours" have shined through in just about every festival they have been shown at. At first when I had heard that Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis were going to star in a film together I immediately started counting down the days before I even knew what the movie was about. Two of my girl crushes together on screen? Yes please! And then I saw the trailer and I am already in love. It looks creepy and beautiful and just like my type of movie!
But on the lines of creepiness this article touches on how now a days movies are showing more and more human suffering. Whether it be mental or physical you almost always see some sort of suffering that makes you cringe in movies...except for in Disney movies of course, but even then I'm sure we all cringed when Andy decided to give away the toys.
Are movies that display grotesque things in the name of art really art or just an excuse to display the directors disturbing mind? In my opinion...it will always be art. No matter how grotesque the images are. One persons nightmares are another persons entertainment. It just gets us into a horror debate and some of the movies I'm talking about aren't even considered horror. For instance one of the movies shown directed by Michael Rowe called "Leap Year" is about a lonely Mexican woman who partakes in brutal one night stands and then when she finds her perfect man she encourages him to subject her to sexual violence. Something that had the article writer saying, "It's hard to care about the filmmaker's intentions when you're watching yet another fiction about a woman's brutalization and, as important, watching another actress exploited under the rubric of art."
However considering that these type of movies are honestly not widely seen very often it is almost refreshing to see a movie that strays away from the mainstream idea, especially in a society that has way too many romantic comedies for its own good.
All in all I fully believe that the Toronto Film Festival is an amazing place to see some breathtaking films and even though some may be spotlighted more than others I truly agree with this article that it will forever remain an essential platform for movies.
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