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I have been hearing about "INK for about a year now. Everyone that I have spoken to, every blog I've read, every podcast I've heard has been cryptic in description yet gushing with compliments.
I now know why.
I finally watched it and feel that my senses have been cleansed. Ink is a visual and auditory treat. A sort of sorbet of filmdom. After having my senses numbed by loud robots, blue aliens, messages and meaning, Ink has freshened my pallet.
Jamin Winans wrote and directed INK with no backing, no studio and no idea how he was going to pay for it. None of that mattered. I get the feeling that this was a vision that was going to haunt him until he excised it by putting it to film. He may of been driven mad had he kept it to himself.
Like all the afore mentioned bloggers and critics I find it hard to truly describe the plot without giving it all away. Lets just say it is the age old tale of the fight between darkness (Incubi, literally the stuff of nightmares) and light (Storytellers, the bringers of pleasant dreams) for the soul of an innocent. Take that and then hold it to a mirror, turn it to black and white, now colorize it, flip, twist and turn it this way and that and you get the idea. Think of a fairy tale told by Terry Gilliam and Neil Gaiman, set in a suburb of Dark City. Now you got it!
As I've said, in more metaphors than anyone should be allowed, the film was visually stunning. If I could come up with some great metaphors to describe the audio I would, but I feel i may have crossed the threshold on what is allowed already. Let me just say that I loved it. The music is almost not music and the really cool sound of the Storytellers as they pop into our world, and drumming key to the doorways, and the Incubi is all...well, hard to put into words.
OK..The acting. Now with a lot of independent genre films there is usually a week point. Either the acting is great but the effects are terrible or the effects are great and the acting is terrible, or more often than not, neither are any good. Ink boasts a cast that I'm not sure could have been beat by more seasoned actors. In particular an 8 year old girl that considering the strange and even frightening world in which she is brought into does a remarkable job. Every actor, despite their experience or lack thereof, brings a level of believability and mastery of the roles. If anything beats the visual and auditory wonders of the film it is the cast themselves.
In closing let me be brief, I implore you, I BEG you, to see this film!
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