And I mean Believe, with capital B.
SPOLERS
By watching the first scene, I already hated the movie. His boyfriend arrives home. He "wakes him up". Why is the camera there? Why is there enough light to shoot the situation? Why are there microphones? Needless to say, if there weren't any of the three, we could simply not watch the scene. Two minutes had passed and I had enough. The movie is just not honest (why is he filming himself when he calls to the hospital?). It is just a cry out loud for indulgence. And they are making money out of that. Out of that, and out of the hundred of images of his mother and his grandparents. Just not honest.
I had the chance to ask Gus Van Sant (producer of this film) in a film festival why he casted non Spanish speaking, US actors to play the role of non English speaking - just arrived to the States Mexicans in his first film, Mala Noche. He said he didn't care at the time. Same thing here, they don't care to mix what it is produced to what it is real (as if we were in some kind of Truman Show). I am sorry for your life, Mr. Director, but I don't care for seeing portrayed in such a non honest way in a movie.
I coulnd't stop thinking about "Capturing the Friedmans". That's a great movie! And 100% Asia Argento's "The Heart is deceiving..." is much more brutal, and much more serious as a film than this made-to-cry- film experiment
SPOLERS
By watching the first scene, I already hated the movie. His boyfriend arrives home. He "wakes him up". Why is the camera there? Why is there enough light to shoot the situation? Why are there microphones? Needless to say, if there weren't any of the three, we could simply not watch the scene. Two minutes had passed and I had enough. The movie is just not honest (why is he filming himself when he calls to the hospital?). It is just a cry out loud for indulgence. And they are making money out of that. Out of that, and out of the hundred of images of his mother and his grandparents. Just not honest.
I had the chance to ask Gus Van Sant (producer of this film) in a film festival why he casted non Spanish speaking, US actors to play the role of non English speaking - just arrived to the States Mexicans in his first film, Mala Noche. He said he didn't care at the time. Same thing here, they don't care to mix what it is produced to what it is real (as if we were in some kind of Truman Show). I am sorry for your life, Mr. Director, but I don't care for seeing portrayed in such a non honest way in a movie.
I coulnd't stop thinking about "Capturing the Friedmans". That's a great movie! And 100% Asia Argento's "The Heart is deceiving..." is much more brutal, and much more serious as a film than this made-to-cry- film experiment