Tuesday, July 10, 2007
BLOOD AND GORE
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was Quentin Tarantino's
This is set like a Greek drama.
It has tragedy and plenty of blood and violence.
There is a chorus. There is story telling of the events that led up to the present crisis.
There is agapé.
Look it up.
It unfolds as a stage play would. One main scene. The rest all subordinate.
That is about all that I can seriously make out of this. I really doubt that Tarantino was thinking about the Greeks when he made this. But how would I know.
I sort of dreaded seeing this film but once in it I actually got with the program.
I can't say that I liked it.
It may be one of the few Harveu Keitel films in which he keeps his clothes on for the entire film.
On another level, it is just a caper film where everything goes wrong.
Relationships form even though the crooks are anonymous to each other. A nice wrinkle.
There was a little too much sadism for me. But I am able to turn my head.
I would give it a 4 out of 5 if it didn't have that element to it.
Gratuitous.
So it is a 3 out of Netflix5. Maybe by the time I rate it I will get it back to a 4 again. It is so over the top that it is not real, actually.
See? I am already moving.
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