• Cuaron’s debut and a visually accomplished, if not stunning, debut. The reviews seem to be weak because of insensitive nature of the film’s premise (changing someone’s medical chart to make them believe they have HIV when they don’t) and attempts at humor—regardless—the visuals are there
  • Shares both the immature/superficial sexuality and title structure with Y Tu Mama Tambien though very little else. This is a sea of green in terms of the color palette and it doesn’t have the rigorous formal structure that makes Y Tu Mama Tambien transcend
  • Green font titles, green -ee cummings poem- bathrobe, shoes, spiral staircase, green phone, jalapenos
  • DP is Chivo- Emmanuel Lubezki
  • The neighboring apartment is soaked in green- looks like jungle
  • Great stain-glass doctor’s office
  • Situation comedy- and the situation- again- bugged a lot of critics—but other than that it’s like a rawer old Hollywood film like one from Wilder- Seven Year Itch
  • Formally well structured- quotes (again) form cummings, Newton, Itsy bitsy spider
  • Astonishing level of detail in mise-en-scene
  • Green seats in plane, green paper
  • Humor again does often land- black comedy – often uses Japanese as a punchline to
  • Expressionistic gorgeous street light from above
  • Helicopter shot on tower and he turns the distant street lamps to green
  • HR- top 10 of the year quality film—can’t stretch higher despite the visuals because of some of the narrative problems