All images and subtitles are copyrighted to their respectful owners unless stated otherwise. This website is not associated with any external links or websites. One meet joe black russian subtitles, he is contacted by the Inevitable – by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black has arrived.
A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide’s daughter. Somewhere in the netherworld between being a “remake” and merely “inspired by” Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, Meet Joe Black is the story of Death personified. Although the motivation isn’t specified but implied in this film, Death wishes to experience the life he normally takes away–he wants to see what it’s like to be human. Pitt, Hopkins and Forlani–I’d advise you to avoid the film. For me, I never think that a film’s length is a problem in itself. Helmer Martin Brest directs with a lot of deliberation. Lines of dialogue and responses are stretched out to “infinity and taken to the depth of forever”.
The camera gives us lots of lingering gazes. There is little to no “action” in the film. Much of it is similar to David Lynch’s famed pregnant pauses. If you watch Meet Joe Black immediately after watching Death Takes a Holiday, as I did this time around, a few things might strike you as odd and slightly negative at first. In Meet Joe Black, Susan falls for Pitt as another character first.
March’s turn as Sirki in the original. Once Pitt as Death takes over “Joe Black’s” body, he _must_ change his persona in the way he does. He’s supposed to be a supernatural being who normally relates to the world in a completely different way, but now he’s suddenly made corporeal. He doesn’t know what to do as a human. Hopkins and Forlani are of course no slouches, either.
Forlani, who has a very unusual but intriguingly beautiful face that always looks a bit pouty, gets to pout even more, creating a bizarrely complex but effective character. The rest of the primary cast is just as good. The end result is a strangely dysfunctional family with a lot of depth. While I can see people preferring Death Takes a Holiday to this film, for me, Meet Joe Black is slightly better. It’s much more epic, of course, and that scope, plus the incredible score by Thomas Newman, pushes its emotional effectiveness up a notch. But make sure you do not miss either film. It’s easy to wake up every day and see what is wrong with your life.
