Can you condense dozens up dozens of hours of emotional, potent film-making into something under 3 minutes long? If the power to distill all that power into a space-age pill that allowed you to experience all of it in under a second, would you take it? Have I gone wildly off-topic? Are those new slacks?
The Academy Awards nominations this year are nothing if not diverse, but Cineplex Movies have still managed to arrange most of them into a 2:47 supercut which manages with significant success to cross a fairly wide emotional spectrum. Set to Chopin’s Nocturne, the supercut doesn’t simply rattle through the most iconic moments from each film, but rather stitches scenes together in a way that flows and almost seems to tell its own story. Mostly people getting married, crying, and staring meaningfully into the middle-distance, it would seem.
Cleverly, the video also includes nominees for best foreign language film, such as Leviathan and others for best animated feature, like Big Hero 6, The Boxtrolls and The Tale of Princess Kaguya. It still leans more heavily on the big hitters, like Whiplash, Gone Girl and Birdman, but you really feel like you’re getting a broad sense of the cinematic year, perhaps not a complete one, but a broad one.
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