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A great review of what Hollywood needed to do -and whatnot- to expose Nazi Germany's intentions... It is a well-documented film with great interviews and original footage to prove that cinema can be used for either wrong or right purposes... This one, it is for the right mission: illustrate how coward was US witnessing what Hitler was doing against the Judaism... Nevermore, please! And even though some raw footage is missing when US troops discovered the death camps, the narration accomplished the feelings of those who watched back then... Hopefully Michael Moore sees this documentary to make him to shift their style of film documenting, where serious stuff can be covered straight forward, without all the comic gimmicks he used to abuse them on his films...

Not only Fernando Eimbcke challenged himself to shoot a movie inside of an apartment but he casted three kids without any experience in acting. The result is an original realistic movie with truly funny young characters. And yes: there are guns, drugs, flirting and bare buttocks but in a unworried way -enough to be fun and not scary. It is Eimbcke's opera prima for a long movie and he proved that his experience directing music videoclips and comedic short movies is a good foundation for this movie. He already got seven "mayahueles" at the Guadalajara Film Festival, a MTV Movie Award and he got his chance of showing Duck Season at the International Critics Week in Cannes 2004.

This movie is a way for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu of doing catharsis for their own sorrow lived years ago when he suffered the lost of a family member. He explored the grieving and lightness means of life through not only the three principal characters but the people surrounding them. But besides the the plot that has a strong moral message, the thing that rescues the movie is the way it was edited to unwrap and to tease simultaneously three stories. Sadly again, the director used the devise of a car crash to tie the lives of three characters as he did it in Amores Perros. Time to try something else, please. The stories were strong enough to be told somehow differently. But truly, God Bless Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: finally he can get redemption.