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In Reply to: It's extremely overrated. posted by Donald on May 23, 2005 at 07:49:52:
glorified violence and the Mafia: the protagonist triumphs through murder, as did his father.
"Natural Born Killers" glorifies violence, using many directorial tricks to trivialize death and torture. Not the case with C of G, at all.
Movies change, technology is used in different ways, and jump cuts, hand-held, slow-mo, speeded up scenes, etc. necessarily don't dilute the impact. To me, the deaths of the characters in C of G were tragic, not heroic.
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leading to it that's made to look glamourous. Of course the filmmakers are saying this is all horrible, but they can't stop themselves from simultaneously making it look hip and appealing. And apart from the film's portrayal of violence, it just isn't very good. The writing's pretty pedestrian.
How? Please remember that most of the dialog was spoken by children, who were generally uneducated. Should they have been quoting Shakespeare? Had they spoken more intelligent dialog I suspect your other complaint may have been "hardly realistic, children do not speak like that."
I had no particular problem with the dialogue, but rather with story's writing, which was anemic.
Well, I had to assume because you did not write what was pedestrian. And now "anemic." If not the dialog, then the "story's writing?" What exactly is that? I assume the dialog was written. So that would qualify. How was the writing anemic? Or the story? My understanding is that the story was based very closely upon the real life events. Should they have re-written the historial events to make it "non-anemic?" Again, what was "anemic" or pedestrian about the story? It was no more pedestrian than every John Wayne war and western film, every love story, and every sports story ever made. Please be specific so that there is something to respond to.
this film, if anything, sugar-coated a lot, in the interests of not being too shocking or unwatchable. Killing kids for organ-donations, child prostitution and lots of other common facts of favela life were not included.
This movie was based on a true story.
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