karl_consiglio

Elephant suspense. I love the director's take that Eric shoots his partner in crime, didn't see that coming;-) which is not what actually happened but a small touch like that makes all the difference vis a vis hate, accumulated hate. The kiss that girl gives that boy gives us hope. The school itself seemed good enough. The headmaster fairly reasonable. The school has all the facilities. OK nothing is perfect as in the real world. But as John Lennon said (just a mere coincidence that he was shot) "We all got both Hitler and Jesus inside of us, we all want Jesus to win" Trust me I'm not religious. Everything in this film is so pre-9/11 isn't it? Even the slow jump of the dog..... freezes the tempo of the film.... the intro and the 3 angles of repetition of the shooting .... a masterpiece of a film based on a real story.

Not a particularly great poet to begin with. I don't know why the film is in black and white, is that supposed to make it look more arty or something? I don't see why he was not happy with the advertising job. He could have still found time for his poems on the side. His poems are really heavy and monotonous and pedantic, I bet they don't necessarily mean anything most of the time. They just kind of sound like they do. But its just drunken delirium. Some nice shots under the bridge. The guy does have a nice smile. Poet was destructive. I bet Ginsberg liked this guy. Lucky guy got to travel a lot, not bad for a broke cliché of a suffering artist.

A rather sweet film. Not Bill Murray as we expect him. And yet I couldn't imagine anyone more suitable. Much ado about nothing really and men know that. Women worry too much. Two great flawed personalities as we all are. They have a drink. A smoke. A hot dog. Share a joke. While the women hassle about as usual. A lot of terrible things could have been avoided had there been more pleasant weekends like this. The presence of the American Indians made quite an impression. Because they got screwed more than the female Americans in this film at the end of the day. Funny to see a British King still telling his wife not to compare him to his brother while an American President is having his wife and lovers coming to terms with the fact that he has other lovers. Those pictures on the wall depicting the British as monkeys, as the characters in the film suggested, were indeed rather symbolically true at the end of the day although the Americans were supposedly supposed to be the less sophisticated.