El colombian dream

Just watched it again, and I felt really disappointed with myself... I compared this at once to the majestic direction of 'Confesion a Laura' and 'Ilona llega con la lluvia', but NO WAY! 'El Colombian Dream' isn't as brilliant as I thought two years ago, it is actually a pointless use of thousands of camera angles/movements alongside a freaky pointless dumb multistory. The script has tons of pseudointellectual phrases and the direction leads people to get sick.

What have I learned? 1) Not to call "brilliant" to every unusual movie I see. 2) Not to call "brilliant" nowadays to something I haven't seen in years. 3) Not to re-watch a movie I liked when I was younger. It may damage its impression in me.

Soooo NOT "another attempt to exploit the cliché of what Colombia is not." I have seen Colombian movies, and most of them do fit perfectly into that description, but this movie is different. It shows a new format in Colombian films, the story is fresh even though it does deal with drugs, and the conflicts of the characters are perfectly plotted and put together into a delightful, artistic movie. Don't think "Mary full of grace" is all Colombia has to offer. This movie is full of wit, and was cleverly written and filmed. One of my top ten. Oh, and if you're into Colombian movies, you have to watch "La Estrategia del Caracol." That's a classic and is also very, very good.

This is a Terrible movie, in almost every aspect, murky cinematography, sloppy special effects, and cheap sets, the argument it's full of gaps, flat, slow and predictable, and the direction it's Kind of ED WOOD in a LSD trip... It's a Colombian movie, and one of the main lines is: It's better to born in Colombia than be dead....Great, it's also very patriot.

It's Just another movie about Colombians and drugs...from a very drugged point of view.

125 lost minutes in my life, and 125 millions of dead brain cells... don't waste your time, nor your brain by watching this...

This movie is one of the few, if not the only Colombian production that I can feel proud of, it tells a story close to our culture and our collective personality in a psychedelic and frenetic tone that reminds us of Fernando Meirelles's "Cidade De Deus".The movie is filled with creative film-making and literary reflections, and the various outcomes are usually pumped with an irony that makes it amazingly realistic, and often put that slightly sadistic smile on your face. the wit and crudity of Aljure in representing the particular things that makes us Colombians is overwhelming,and is truly revealing at some times.Don't let other comments bump you out, this really is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen.

The Director longs for Colombian cinema to be taken seriously outside of Colombia. This will not be the film to accomplish that goal. The film is basically another story about the tragedy of the drug trade, this time in a hyper-frenetic magical realism style. One of the reasons this film will have difficulty being accepted outside of the Spanish-speaking world is that it will be virtually impossible to create subtitles. This might not be an issue for a film "purist" but from a practical point of view if you don't speak Spanish the film probably looks like a sick cartoon. Obviously the director has talent and creativity but it needs to channeled a little better.