Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Night Watch & Day Watch: Two great Russian fantasy movies. Very dark, very cool, modern era. Also have the coolest subtitles of any movie I've seen, when the vampire is calling the boy the subtitles are red and dissolve like blood etc.
I saw Night Watch and had a hard time staying with it since I found it confusing. On my 3rd attempt to watch it, I inadvertendly turned on the novelist's comments about 1/3 of the way into the film and it explained what was going on in the movie. I then watched the last 1/3 without reading the comments. In the end, I thought it was a very interesting film which questions the common conceptions of good and evil, and how a person can be used as a pawn in a larger scheme without him realizing it. I wish I had watched it without the comments first and then a second time with the comments, but my feeling is the movie is too confusing to grasp all the nuances without the comments. There are a few things in the movie that the novelist points out are inconsistent with his concept of an "other". He said the movie focused in and explored certain characters whereas the novel dealt more with the overall forces that were in opposition, but he liked the movie very much.