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Match (2014)
Patrick Stewart's worst acting in a very long career
Wow. I cannot believe a man of Patrick Stewart's talent and experience could present a character as boring, ugly, and bizarrely unbelievable at this stage of his career. Even if his director begged him to perform this poorly I cannot believe he would do so. I am sorry. But, do not waste even five minutes on this movie.
Matthew Lilliard, as the potential son, created a character that was so unreal that no one should be asked to suspend disbelief. His character is not a cop. There is a sense of un-realness to this performance. There is no believable reason for his character to be such a bore. This could be a career ending performance.
I honestly cannot believe anyone put money forward to produce this, one of the worst movies I have seen in years.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Offensive and Cliché'd
This false and inauthentic film lifts up a straight, white, dishonest 'victim' of AIDS in a story designed to remind us of the overwhelming tragedy of AIDS in an era unfortunately not forgotten. This cliché'd film is not in any way truthful to the time or to those whose deaths it was meant to commemorate. This film is not truthful in any manner as to the characters it uses to tell this inauthentic story. Medicine is portrayed inaccurately. Gay characters are not portrayed accurately. Nurses and Government bureaucrats are not shown in any way accurately. I cannot for one minute understand how this film got to be distributed or held up for the whole world to see. Here we have a straight man who is infecting dozens of unknowing women with porn like sex throughout this movie and we have the 'gay' character floating through the movie in a dress and acting fey without even a kiss or a touch or a glance of sexuality. We have medicine, in an era where thousands of health care professionals gave their all to try to save those infected with AIDS, as greedy money hungry uncaring 'assholes'. Buyers clubs sprung up in many cities around the U.S. and other places. Hundreds, if not thousands of doctors and other health care professionals put their careers and licenses on the line to 'write scripts' to stock the shelves of these buyer's clubs. But, not in this move. Fake. Bad, Cliché'd and not worth the time it took to write this review. Don't waste your time on this horrible movie.
The Normal Heart (2014)
Masterpiece: Will live forever
Rarely does one film capture a time and a movement and a story that anchors the viewer to the story with grace, memory, and power. This perfect movie made from a rewritten Larry Kramer script, .is authentic and powerful in showing both the personalities and a community affected in the early days of the AIDS Crisis in New York. It powerfully reminds us that these deaths cannot go unnoticed anymore; that thirty years later there is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for 'the Closet" and that we are often our own worst enemies. But, the grace of the film is that despite this, being flawed, means we also have hearts and souls and dreams and the search for love must go on. The normal heart, our heart, has broken and suffered, and lost too much; but it is still alive and here and breathing and WORTHY of this existence called Life. This story cannot ever be untold now.
Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)
Transmformative
This movie, simply just shows us how to live life. I am so happy to live in a time where the forgotten can be not only remembered, but celebrated and heard once again. A metaphor for all of us... We have to share our gifts, keep getting up when knocked down, and remember we can live until we are dead... I cannot wait to see what these ladies do with the rest of their lives and their careers. I am so happy to hear that some of them will have their catalogues re-released and even a sound track from the movie is going to be available soon. Glad to see The Weinstein company helping so that this Documentary can also be celebrated for the Oscar it is going to win next winter. Lisa Fisher and Darlene Love along with Tata Vega and Merry Clayton all carry this movie and then the very current struggle of the DIVA Currently struggling out of the back of the pack, Judith HIll are amazing.
Inch'Allah (2012)
A white coat alone does not a doctor make!
This powerful film is good, haunting, disturbing. But the Chloe character is fake, in- authentic and sad. Putting a white coat on a character does not make them a physician. Chloe as played is weak. There comes with education and experience in medicine an authority that is entirely lacking in this Chloe. This woman does not convey comfort with the bodies of the women she serves? Nor does she talk to them as if she has their best interests at heart. She repeatedly shuffles them in and out of clinics as if they are cattle, not humans.
A physician in her place would be a passionate advocate for all life; she would be a feminist. She would fight for life. But in the scenes wherein a child and baby die in her presence there is no attempt to save a life. She even states "I have blood on my shoes". Not: " I have blood on my hands". She lets a baby die without any attempt to breathe life into it.
Bizarre especially given the choice she makes by the end to truly have blood on her hands.
I went to the movie to see the choice a physician has made in extreme circumstances, but was met with a character that in no way understood or lived as a physician. Such a sad failure for a movie that could shock if written and acted as the story demanded
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Powerful, Disturbing, Brave--Hat's off to Greg Araki, the cast and Scott Heim
Just got back from the Sundance Film Festival. I am still processing this powerful movie and the stunning reminder of the cost some of life's choices bring to our lives. I was amazed at the brutal honesty of this story. While I cannot say enough about the acting, Brady Corbet's subtle portrayal of Brian should be honored and remembered for a very long time. Bravo to all involved with this movie.
Before seeing this movie I could only remember that the novel, Mysterious Skin, had been disturbing. Greg Araki has made this novel into something that cuts emotionally but could also have a great impact in how people learn to deal with a painful past and the defenses they have built up to protect potentially devastating secrets.
Anyone who wants a movie to move them, to make them feel and to think should do everything they can to make sure they do not miss Mysterious Skin