Saturday, October 29, 2011

Find Me

So there is this really wicked commercial airing on Chinese TV. It's like a mini-series or a movie. There's even short trailers for the full length, 5-PART!! feature. The company is Oppo, a Chinese mobile phone giant. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio (yes) reprising his role from 'Inception', or at least squinting a lot and chasing after specters of sexy French girls. Oh yeah, it takes place in France. He runs, looks out from train windows, and is very short with a cab driver, all while his voice-over intones gems like: "She was here" and "Wait!"

The production quality is amazing, possibly better than 'Inception'. The editing is fast paced, both thrilling and needlessly confusing. The music is heavy with ominous sounding strings. I bet they gave him like a billion dollars. There are billboards and posters for this thing everywhere. It's not like he's lacking in work or money. Something in the script must have truly spoke to him.

Or what's equally likely, this is what Leonardo DiCaprio is doing anyway, and camera crews just happened to be there shooting something else. One thing that makes Leonardo DiCaprio, in my opinion, such a great actor is he's absolutely bat-poop fucking insane. The name of this off-beat documentary is "Find Me".

Indeed.

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