Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on August 12, 2006 at 05:26:03

In Reply to: LOL! I was kinda waiting for that! posted by Victor Khomenko on August 11, 2006 at 18:44:47:

it in such company and it deserves it.
There is no other film, visually or "musically" really with which to compare it.
The film exposes John Ford for the ridiculously romantic, almost sickeningly so, director he was. Both VS and Grapes of Wrath are about displaced, impoverished families but one attempts (unsuccessfully and hilariously) to make opera.
Likewise, what is it like really to "break" a horse, to herd cattle?
Vidas works on so many levels and it is impossible to forget the characters, of which a dog is a principal one!
Yes, I very much liked City of Gods because I thought it provided a brilliant update on the gangster film and it is an unrelenting portrayal of favela deadend life for millions of Brasilians (and similar folks throughout the world surviving in urban slums).
I try to separate my political beliefs from film appreciation. Though I enjoyed the viewpoint, for instance, of Constant Gardener, I didn't like it because of it but almost in spite of it: I hate being preached to.