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OddsAgainsttheMoonPeople's rating
It's truly a shame Dylan Avery could not have made the 3rd or 4th most provocative docu-essay about the 9/11 myths and popular narratives.
Instead he made this, which looks like the lone loony sensation that is spreading peoples loyalties, and faith in the pillars of Western Civilization, apart like no other video cheepie has.
If the Right were less fearful and smotheringly arrogant, they might be capable of examining the "evidence" presented by Avery, with their own minds, uncoerced by the countless anti-'Loose Change' Websites, who's counter-"evidence" makes Avery's look like he produced his 1 1/2-hour flick on an MGM budget.
If the Left were less helplessly jejune in their argument's for the picture, they might see that it is not particularly convincing on the whole.
Personally, I like Michael Moore's work better. Despite what the corporate lackey's (or what the desperate-for-attention Pen Gilette) say, I believe for a brief time 'Fahrenheit 9/11' was really bringing people together. Maybe I left the theater on too much of a high, not to see that for most the audience, Moore's work was a distraction first, documentary second.
If you like your politics dry and rabid at the same time, delivered with a tiresome, wall-to-wall narration, this is your film... If style means something to you, check out the documentary work of Steve James, Barbara Kopple, and Chris Marker.
The last thing I'd want to do is tell someone not to see this work 'Loose Change'. Yet it's Website has a better claim to enlightening the people than the movie proper.
Instead he made this, which looks like the lone loony sensation that is spreading peoples loyalties, and faith in the pillars of Western Civilization, apart like no other video cheepie has.
If the Right were less fearful and smotheringly arrogant, they might be capable of examining the "evidence" presented by Avery, with their own minds, uncoerced by the countless anti-'Loose Change' Websites, who's counter-"evidence" makes Avery's look like he produced his 1 1/2-hour flick on an MGM budget.
If the Left were less helplessly jejune in their argument's for the picture, they might see that it is not particularly convincing on the whole.
Personally, I like Michael Moore's work better. Despite what the corporate lackey's (or what the desperate-for-attention Pen Gilette) say, I believe for a brief time 'Fahrenheit 9/11' was really bringing people together. Maybe I left the theater on too much of a high, not to see that for most the audience, Moore's work was a distraction first, documentary second.
If you like your politics dry and rabid at the same time, delivered with a tiresome, wall-to-wall narration, this is your film... If style means something to you, check out the documentary work of Steve James, Barbara Kopple, and Chris Marker.
The last thing I'd want to do is tell someone not to see this work 'Loose Change'. Yet it's Website has a better claim to enlightening the people than the movie proper.
The tone of the humor in this remarkable film (a delicious treat for any aficionados of central European cinema, especially), is remarkably like some Ealing comedies I've seen ...'Kind Hearts and Coronets' and 'The Lavender Hill Mob', come readily to mind. The director must have seen a bit of American slapstick & french farce, of the 1920's-30's, or at least digested a few choice examples to elaborate upon. Not wanting to give away the plot,or try to define the movie in any tangible way, I find myself at a loss for words. See for yourself, it's to unique to risk selling short by focusing on Favorite Scenes, or trying to figure where it stands in relation to Polish cinema as a whole. I don't recall feeling so turned on my head, and disoriented by a comedy, since Kon Ichikawai's 'Fires on the Plain'.
Here is a movie that has been born again, thanks I suppose to the miracle of digital video, or as bright exception--the rare revival screening. If you were lucky as me, to see it on the glorious big screen, then you may have realized this is one of the Coen's most beautiful efforts. Not to say it's as loving and multi-layered a pastiche as Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, or, Miller's Crossing...and nothing compares to Fargo in depth of wit, and intelligent use of violence in . But there is so much to love in the Hud. One need'not have a personal knowledge of the cannon's of such estimable comic filmmaker's as Sturges, Capra, Hawks, Tashlin, MacKendrick, Farrow. You don't need to see Metropolis, or Citizen Kane, or dozens of other classics the Coens "rip off" explicitly. All good artists are brazen thieves, it's the ones who claim they're original you must look out for.The fact is, Hudsucker is a brilliant homage, and it's about time people learn to accept great entertainment at face value before they go looking for signifiers to everything. And is'not it about time for a Rediscovering of the pleasure of another brilliantly made divertimento of the Coens --Intollerable Cruelty?