Aakansha

Pickpocket

love the colors in this (green and red look so good together!) and the composition, the blocking and the film grain. there’s something about film grain that makes me want to eat some frames. love how lived-in it feels, how the frames are so full of colors, different shapes, patterns, like in the salon scene and the karaoke place, the streets. this is the exact type of film, like Abbas Kiarostami’s, that makes me want to pick my camera and record stuff around me, it especially makes me want to capture all the different shapes, patterns, textures and details which are in abundance in India everywhere you look. It also makes me want to do art direction / direct like I do fashion moodboards also loved the scene of him weighing the money and his reason for doing so

nathansnook

Pickpocket

Perhaps the themes here are more interesting than the actual film itself. Changes. To move from one world to the next. The fashion of pagers. How do we oblige? How do we shift resources? What changes? As a debut, you can see Jia learning his tricks and trades, finding his frames and contouring his shots. He is, more or less, learning, and you see how much he is learning of his own work as the film progresses. But by god, I want to fall in love with Xiao Wu. The thick black plastic frames that makes him seem a bit smarter. The shy way he hangs his head, slumps himself in his spring sweater and open collar. His oversized blazer, thin enough yet warm enough to keep him along days and nights. His bad smoking habit. His desire to impress, to gift, to show that he cares. Much puppy-love in this one.