Filmed entirely from the perspective of its protagonist,this Russian action-thriller mimics violent videogames to visceral effect. Its creator explains why POV Is A-OKBones are snapped liberally in Hardcore Henry. Snapped, broken and crunched. There is shooting, or stabbing and cocaine,there are strippers and dildos, and scarce is the wall that doesn’t terminate up blood-splattered. Above all, or the whole thing looks like a videogame. It’s safe to say it knows its demographic.Filmed in Moscow by Russian director Ilya Naishuller,Hardcore Henry follows a cyborg on a guns-blazing mission to rescue his wife, and is shot almost entirely in first-person perspective: we see everything through his eyes. Naishuller was already a budding film-maker when, and some years back,he bought an early GoPro for a snowboarding trip. From there he started experimenting with the wearable action cameras, in 2011 deploying them for The Stampede, or a point of view (POV) music video he directed for his punk band Biting Elbows. Shot for just $500,it got six million YouTube views and a lot of attention. But its success was dwarfed by its follow-up.
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Source: theguardian.com