Tuesday, November 15, 2011
TRULY GRITTY II
I watched the second half of Alejandro Gonzålez Inårritu's
starring Javier Bardem as a lower rung hustler and middle man for exploiting illegals. Not a sympathetic character but Bardem makes him so. Under all the chicanery, Bardem's character has two kids that he is raising and has just learned he will soon be dying of prostate cancer.
Sounds like fun, eh?
Well, no. Not really.
The second half has us going downhill even faster and lower.
I guess we have a "christ" figure here. Doing good and suffering the consequences. Mostly because he is a half assed christ figure who makes fatal mistakes. After all, he neglected himself and let the cancer metastasize in the first place.
There is a bleak happy ending. Not a spoiler actually. We have to get something out of all the suffering.
Bardem is very good with his rough long suffering face and it is a very well told tale. Just don't look for a good time.
This is the second day of movies about fathers and their kids. In this one there is even a grandfather.
I wouldn't want to watch it again. Way too baleful. I am glad that I saw it though. I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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