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The 3 Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

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This is a great little film for any number of reasons... its gothic, funny, ludicrous, profound, touching, touching on the ludicrous and completely bonkers... but a very good way to spend a couple of hours.
And partly like a Mexican soap..
Tommy Lee Jones is all over the production and plays a cowboy who takes his friends corpse back to his home in Mexico.
There are sudden bursts of violence which are not pretty... which is how I think violence should be shown, ugly sickening.
The end where the idealising of Mexicans is turned over in favour (my reading) of saying people are the same everywhere is very effective.
The cinema was almost entirely empty.
My friend Bonnie said the horses were beautiful.

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Re: Loved it... - Jeff Starrs 06:19:16 06/02/06 (0)
..try also 'Down in the Valley' with Edward Norton, which you'd like, I'm sure.
Re: Sounds a very similar plot theme to "Lonesome Dove" - grinagog 20:16:07 05/31/06 (6)
which has Tommy Lee doing pretty much the same thing...
Grins
- Decent enough entertainment but any attempts to elevate it beyond - tinear 06:09:17 06/01/06 (5)
  so are laughable.
  One never ceases to love the theme of the honorable American portrayed as the helper and defender of the poor Mexican.
  Right...
  - You could read it that way. - dave c 13:25:55 06/01/06 (4)
    I thought he actually came to consider Mexicans to be like everyone else, him in particular.
    Viva la difference...
    - You could, but you'd be watching a diiferent movie. - sjb 20:23:54 06/02/06 (0)
      Of course the fact that TLJ took Miguel in and fulfilled his promise had little to do with his being Mexican and everything to do with TLJ being taken by his spirit, work ethic and friendship.
      Oh and tin, Shaq IS the MOE.
      
      "Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
    - Your version is the disguise. The Noble White Man helping out the - tinear 16:28:30 06/01/06 (2)
      unfortunate little Brown Man.
      This is a trope in Hollywood.
      Clint Eastwood has made several movies lately in which he is the great liberator, though Clint (lover of "black" jazz) prefers to free African-Americans.
      - million dollar storyline - dave c 18:32:24 06/01/06 (1)
        
        In Reply to: Your version is the disguise. The Noble White Man helping out the posted by tinear on June 1, 2006 at 16:28:30:
        
        Would you read Million Dollar Baby as Clint the evangelist of womens' liberation?
        This is as close to a serious question as I could make it...
        I'm not sure I see 3 Burials like that... he's not doing anything more than taking a friend's body home... except its not home.
        ut in general... its like The LOne Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by "indians' and the LR turns to Tonto and says..."looks like we're in big trouble Tonto" and Tonto says... "what you mean "we" Honky".
        Whichever way you tell it, its still...
        
        No, Million Dollar Baby (thanks for asking!) actually was the second movie - tinear 04:44:40 06/02/06 (0)
        
        In Reply to: million dollar storyline posted by dave c on June 1, 2006 at 18:32:24:
        
        where White Clint rode to the rescue of the same black actor, Morgan Freeman (what a fitting last name).
        In MDB, Clint magnanimously allows Morgan to live in a corner of the gym.
        In "Unforgiven," he goes after Morgan's murderers.
        I don't know what the next collaboration will be between these two but it would be nice if Morgan at least removed a hangnail from Clint.

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