Tuesday, January 16, 2007
FIRST AMMENDMENT PORN
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was MIlos Forman's
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
I was ready to hate this film and found myself transfixed by it.
There is no denying that Larry Flynt and his gang are sleazebags but there is also no denying that it is there right to be the way they are.
We see all the down side of this man and the up side; the courage, the focus, the will to exert his rights.
He has had a tough time of it.
Hard to feel sorry because he is a millionaire? Let me tell you. The money means nothing.
A lot of his life has been a vale of tears.
On the other hand, he put the money where his mouth was and it worked.
I really liked this film. Forman is a great director. He has made a wonderful film. He did not have to gild the lily. Flynt is good at doing the gilding.
Woody Harrelson is superb as Flynt (who is also in the film as a nasty judge) and Edward Norton plays, as importantly, Flynt's long term friend and lawyer Alan Isaacman. Courtney Love plays Flynt's wife. She is a powerhouse.
This is a definite 5 out of Netflix5.
