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We'll just have to disagree about this one...

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In Reply to: RE: A brave try... posted by Jazz Inmate on February 19, 2008 at 17:47:49

Stephanie Zacharek in her Salon review says pretty much everything I feel about CoM - only she says it much better than i ever could. (See below). There's not many modern movies I'm passionate about but this is one. Thrilling. To me, anyway.

This and Pan were the only films I saw in 2006 where I immediately wanted to run back in and see them again.

Clark and I and several others here will never get over CoM not being nominated for BP or Cuaron fro BD, though of course as I always say, there are far more great movies that didn't won the oscar than there are great movies that did.

Be careful how you interpret what's up on the screen in this film. CoM's can be a difficult movie to read because it is so very dense (not necessarily complex, as it's essentially the story of one man's inner journery). The story is told primarily visually, much of it in the corners and margins of the frames. I'm amused that CoM infuriated hardliners on both the left and the right, a sure sign to me that it hit the right nerves.

I'm delighted that HD DVD threw in the towel so now I can look forward to owning this someday sooner on BD. You can keep Babel, as I'll never want to own it.

Cuaron is my favorite Amigo, for this film, and for Y Tu Mama Tambien, HP3, The Little Princess and a very underrated (if slightly flawed) modern version of Great Expectations.

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2006/12/25/children/index.html (Open in New Window)

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