Um. I think that the skz move was ... okay. I have no idea whether people who aren't already fans would enjoy it.
Seeing it at Melbourne IMAX was good, because the screen is 23 metres tall and the picture quality is high, so that it felt a bit like being up close and personal with the members.
I would have enjoyed it more if there were more long steady shots, instead of quick cuts and gimmicky camera moves.
The whole movie felt sanitised and safe, in a way that I don't associate with skz. Their usual queer-coded stuff was (deliberately?) excluded from the edit. For example, during the Sofi Stadium performances of Cinema, we know from fan videos etc that rainbow confetti cannons went off along the sides of the stage, and trans pride coloured confetti at the end of the thrust stage. But the shots used in the movie didn't show that.
However, Cinema also had my favourite moment of the movie, at the start, when Seungmin and Lee Know are lying on their backs singing. There was something intimate about watching their breathing during that moment. I liked that it was a long, still shot.
(Also Seungmin was wearing the ripped jeans with big holes revealing black lace stockings (?) underneath, which is a peak Seungmin look.)
The interviews weren't especially interesting and didn't reveal much of anything new. The average 2 Kids Room episode is ten times more interesting. Hyunjin's might have been the best, maybe?? He talked about the saying that a bruised blade of grass smells sweeter, and how he finds that comforting. (He thinks of himself as a bruised blade of grass.)
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