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Il caimano (2006)
ludicrous low-flying propaganda
I have not seen a movie, I have seen a poisoned bulk of very low-level propaganda. Yeah, just like "Aleksandr Nevskiy" or "War and Peace" somebody could say, but Moretti is neither Sergei Eisenstein nor Sergei Bondarchuk. The film fits the slot of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine: shouting to politicians. How interesting. The actors' play is very bad, but it's a constant feature of Moretti movies. If you are not a left-winged Italianman looking for politically engaged movies, don't watch it. If you are, watch Roberto Benigni, a real artist. If you simply are a guy other than Italian, looking for Italian Movies, look elsewhere.
Heaven (2002)
very cheap artist- wanna-be
I found this movie utterly useless.
It is slow, in a bad way. I am a huge fan of Luchino Visconti, so the objection that I should limit myself to Die Hard or Terminator is an utter nonsense. It is completely unrealistic. But OK, sometimes you have to give up realism for the art.
The acting of the surrounding roles is low-level. Or maybe my being Italian make me generally hate Italian acting. But the worst reason is the following.
I do not know how it could be possible to like the characters: the woman chooses to kill someone with a bomb, the most coward killing device (maybe along with poison) but slays 4 innocent. Giovanni Ribisi falls in love with such subject, and betrays his colleagues, his country, his father.
But for some reason, movies (or books) where love, possibly towards a criminal, drives to such a betrayal are hailed as deeply moving tragedies.
This is not tragedy, nor poetry. If I want to see a tragedy, I watch King Lear, Ran, Amlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Damned, Gallipoli and so on. This movie simply smells a sort of pretension from the first shot to the end titles. Furthermore, normally I like long shots of beautiful landscape in a documentary, because in a movie they tend to be used to conceal gaps and inconsistencies of the story. One more thing: the fact that I found this movie in a supermarket for 3.5 EUR already provides a good clue of its level...