Blu Ray Screencaps of Seraphim Falls.
Seraphim Falls is set sometime after the American Civil War and features two fine performances from Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson, Brosnan plays Gideon, a man being hunted by Carver. ( Neeson ) The reasons are at first unclear but flashbacks show a tragedy that happened during the war set events in motion and Carver now wants to exact revenge on Gideon and will hunt him down no matter what.
Carver is unrelentless in his pursuit of Gideon and a final showdown is inevitable, in a way you could say Carver is as obsessed with revenge as Captain Ahab was when hunting the whale, Moby Dick.
The final act of the film features much symbolism and i thought the character of Charon represented all that is good and fair and just while Madame Louise is a representation of evil and deception and possibly even Satan himself, it's also very possible those two characters are hallucinations and not real since by this point of the film both men are exhausted.
Seraphim is a type of angel in theology and the way the film is structured one can conclude that two fallen angels are battling each other from the mountaintops of heaven to the fiery deserts of hell, of course one can simply watch it as a western with Seraphim being the waterfalls, its also interesting that the characters start out fresh and by the end of the film the hunt has completely worn them down to the point that they are absolutely tired in both mind and body.
The image quality of Seraphim Falls disappointed me, i think they have applied processing to the movie and filtered the finer detail away, i felt there was grain reduction and i noticed some ringing and compression artifacts, closer inspection of the disc reveals hard to see lines on three sides of the image, ( top, bottom and right side ) i have seen these lines on other films which have ringing and which i believe have had filtering applied to the image, i think it's done to make the film easier to encode when using less space. The film itself takes up just 15.9 GB of space on the disc.
The sound mix was average on this film, speech was clear, surrounds were used for ambience, bass was not deep but present in some scenes, i felt the music score was also average.
This is a decent movie which i did enjoy, i just felt the image quality did not represent the cinema look and i feel they have tried to fit the film onto the disc in as small a space as possible when they could have used more space and a higher bitrate and not filtered the finer detail and film grain away, higher bitrates and more careful encoding would have helped with the handful of compression artifacts i noticed, good movie but missed opportunity and i hope they redo the transfer at a later stage, usually Icon do much better with their transfers on blu ray.
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