The Artist

BRILLIANT! Perhaps I am bias as I have always been a fan of old movie-black and white and silent included but this film was truly amazing. I was curious how it would translate doing a silent film with current actors/technology/settings but it was executed perfectly. This was honestly one of the best films I have seen, period. The story of a big time silent movie actor (George Valentin) who by happen stance meets a woman(Peppy Miller) and helps put her in a film as background. She slowly climbs her way to the top and becomes America's sweetheart of the talkies. All the while George can't adapt to the transition between silent films and talkies and all the while his life falls apart. He makes a movie he finances that bombs in the box office, loses all his money in the stock market crash and his wife leaves him. We follow how Peppy tries to help him with out his knowledge and his pride continually runs himself into the ground. He hits rock bottom when he almost burns alive in his apartment, then after recovering realizes everything Peppy has done and tries to put a bullet in his head. She finds him just in time to save him (in more ways then one) and wraps up with him performing in a talkie starring George Valentin and Peppy Miller and hearing his voice for the first time. There is a scene in the middle where he has a nightmare and you only hear sound effects of everything around him-still no speech. Aside from the nightmare and the final scene where they wrap the take by transitioning into sound the entire film is true to being silent. It goes to prove that all you need is a good story to have a brilliant movie. It was memorable, delightful, saddening, nostalgic, and truly inspiring. It makes you feel there is hope in an industry that has been recycling old movies and producing films such as transformers 3 where there is absolutely no story. Bravo to the people who took the courage to make a movie in a genre most people these days have never seen before, and showing the world what made those movies brilliant to begin with. I STRONGLY encourage watching this film.
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