If you absolutely have to watch a film with subtitles, try to catch it in the movie theater and not home on DVD.
You see when you watch a beautiful film with subtitles on DVD you miss the scenery. That’s because your eyes must always semi-focus on the bottom of your TV screen to keep track of the dialog.
But when you watch a movie with subtitles in the movie theatre, you’re looking up at a huge screen and your perspective is such that your peripheral vision can absorb more of the scenery - even the text seems easier to perceive.
Mongol which opens June 6th in a very limited release can be screened at the Varsity cinema in the Manulife building at Bay and Bloor in Toronto.
This is probably the only place in this city where this movie is playing. This is a good movie - a historical epic by Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov – but it has subtitles.
After twenty minutes it won't matter - Mongol is an awesome movie, and definitely the best new foreign film I've seen this summer.
What's the best new foreign film that you have seen?
Mongol portrays Ghenghis Khan as a fearless visionary.
