Movie Talk (New Films, Old Films... doesn't matter) (57 Viewers)
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I heard good things about it.
Excellent film. Its last scene was overwhelmingly sad 
I loved it.
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Splendor in the Grass
Wuthering Heights
Casablanca
The Bridges of Madison County
The English Patient
Moulin Rouge
Atonement
I love vincent cassel 
watched la strada. I didn't find it overwhelmingly sad like I thought I would based on reviews, but to quote a review that said it perfectly... "you will not forget gelsomina's face". Plus anthony quinn is awesome.
watched la strada. I didn't find it overwhelmingly sad like I thought I would based on reviews, but to quote a review that said it perfectly... "you will not forget gelsomina's face". Plus anthony quinn is awesome.
I loved it.
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Splendor in the Grass
Wuthering Heights
Casablanca
The Bridges of Madison County
The English Patient
Moulin Rouge
Atonement
Did you like it?
So it's a story about despair essentially and nothing positive to take away from it. However towards the end I got into it more, it's not a bad movie.
What's strange is how calm the various people are even in moments of great turmoil. Both the Arabs and the Jews, just to be clear.
At first not that much. The stories are very tragic, a long succession of awful events caused by idiotic thinking followed by helplessness. Like a mafia gang coming to demand protection money from a guy who owns a bar. He shoots one of them, paralyzes the gangster. Which of course starts a vendetta. They arrange a peace negotiation with some kind of local traditional judge who weighs damages on both sides and decides this family has to pay 30k usd or whatever to this mafia boss, a crippling debt needless to say.
So it's a story about despair essentially and nothing positive to take away from it. However towards the end I got into it more, it's not a bad movie.
What's strange is how calm the various people are even in moments of great turmoil. Both the Arabs and the Jews, just to be clear.
So it's a story about despair essentially and nothing positive to take away from it. However towards the end I got into it more, it's not a bad movie.
What's strange is how calm the various people are even in moments of great turmoil. Both the Arabs and the Jews, just to be clear.
Btw, I don't think anyone as good and fair as Israeli filmmakers have ever pictured the situation over there.
Well in this movie the political commentary is not at all central and quite downplayed even is my impression. Obviously it portrays mistrust of Israeli police, it shows checkpoints, it shows how almost all Arabs speak Hebrew whereas only some Jews speak Arabic etc. But on the whole it does not politicize the question. It is the anti-Rebel you could say.
On a personal level there are conflicts with tribal themes like a Jewish man having a dispute with Arab neighbors over some practical issue that then escalates because they can't agree. But even that is not central.
On a personal level there are conflicts with tribal themes like a Jewish man having a dispute with Arab neighbors over some practical issue that then escalates because they can't agree. But even that is not central.
