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"The Red Violin"

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Posted by Bambi B on February 9, 2005 at 08:59:25

In Reply to: Well, now I am totally confused... it is kaka or caca? posted by Victor Khomenko on February 9, 2005 at 06:06:50:

Victor,

I really wanted to like "the Red Violin". It seems at first to have everything: a sweeping panorama of 300 years of music history, machincations, violence, grief, greed, intrigue, romance- even an exciting slow taxi ride to an instrument auction, but it simultaneously it's drippy sentimental and more like a loose sequence of contrived goofy vignettes. The climatic auction and the revelation of why the violin is red are just not enough. Violins do produce strong feelings in a quite small number of people, and the concept of trying top make an exciting, dramatic epic about a violin is doomed to these contrivances of heightened cirmstances.

"The Red Violin" should have been an ABC miniseries called, "Strung Out: Obsession, Greed, and Murder for no Particular Reason".

Deciding on wherther to apply "Ka ka" or "Ca ca" to it will be the least worry!

Cheers,

Bam

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Topic - Bummer... - Victor Khomenko 17:40:49 02/08/05 (18)

The sequence in China, at the very least, is incredibly chilling and well worth the wait. nt - clarkjohnsen 15:44:28 02/09/05 (0)

Re: Bummer... - jamesgarvin 10:03:54 02/09/05 (6)

Bummer? - Bambi B 11:18:45 02/09/05 (5)

I found it unreasonable to have Sam Jackson as a world reknown violin expert . . . - mr grits 13:47:48 02/09/05 (2)

Re: I found it unreasonable to have Sam Jackson as a world reknown violin expert . . . - jamesgarvin 15:37:56 02/09/05 (1)

Because he's an actor! nt - clarkjohnsen 15:43:01 02/09/05 (0)

Re: Bummer? - jamesgarvin 11:39:31 02/09/05 (1)

Re: Bummer? - Bambi B 13:19:51 02/09/05 (0)

Red Violin - KT88 08:17:57 02/09/05 (0)

Re: Bummer... - RGA 19:18:31 02/08/05 (8)

Re: Bummer... - patrickU 04:33:56 02/09/05 (7)

Well, now I am totally confused... it is kaka or caca? - Victor Khomenko 06:06:50 02/09/05 (6)

"The Red Violin" - Bambi B 08:59:25 02/09/05 (0)

Re: Ka ka being the German word for it, Ca ca is the French one, but... - patrickU 08:00:01 02/09/05 (3)

So, scatologically speaking, does that make you both a pair of scat-heads or skat-heads? (nt) - Audiophilander 08:14:00 02/09/05 (2)

Re: As long it does make us like you....Mr. LOTR ( another word for it ) - patrickU 08:37:39 02/09/05 (1)

Re: NOT, of course..... nt - patrickU 09:45:19 02/09/05 (0)

I had one broken - mvwine 06:18:55 02/09/05 (0)

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