Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bambi B on February 09, 2005 at 08:59:25

In Reply to: Well, now I am totally confused... it is kaka or caca? posted by Victor Khomenko on February 9, 2005 at 06:06:50:

Victor,

I really wanted to like "the Red Violin". It seems at first to have everything: a sweeping panorama of 300 years of music history, machincations, violence, grief, greed, intrigue, romance- even an exciting slow taxi ride to an instrument auction, but it simultaneously it's drippy sentimental and more like a loose sequence of contrived goofy vignettes. The climatic auction and the revelation of why the violin is red are just not enough. Violins do produce strong feelings in a quite small number of people, and the concept of trying top make an exciting, dramatic epic about a violin is doomed to these contrivances of heightened cirmstances.

"The Red Violin" should have been an ABC miniseries called, "Strung Out: Obsession, Greed, and Murder for no Particular Reason".

Deciding on wherther to apply "Ka ka" or "Ca ca" to it will be the least worry!

Cheers,

Bam