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Just read the books and you will understand it. Dark Tower books are a modern cult saga, and it is one that close all the story circles with cohesion and bright, all the loose ends got together as one big shot.

The movie is not a sequel for the books. The movie is a pastiche of buzzwords, disconnected of any sense. The movie is not a part of King's world as The recent footage of "It", for instance. The movie is a big mistake.

"Dark Water" never had one single worthy review here in Brazil. This is odd, because Walter Salles is at least one of the three best Brazilian director's nowadays (the other two are, of course, Bianchi and Meirelles). And what the three have in common? They do political inspired, remarkable real movies. OK, Meirelles had his dream of an international career come true with all the success of "The Constant Gardnerer" and Bianchi approach to the Brazilian national sufferings is too much acid to foreigners. That is only a/mine own point of view. But the fact is that here in Brazil some were expecting a bit more of the candy flavor of "Central Station", some the "hunger esthetic's" of "Behind The Sun", yet others the political idealism of "The Motorcycle Diaries". Those were all Salles' personal projects, somewhat embedded on Brazilian's "Cinema Novo" tradition. Salles has more to offer. Those who saw "!Foreign Land" -- perhaps his masterpiece -- may have noticed all other influences that this well-born, well-educated and incredibly intelligent man is capable of agglutinate on a movie. That is what "Dark Water" really has to show. A South-American director who really knows how to direct actors, to cut his films and to deliver a product that is not as simple or straight as it seems. "Dark Water" is a film of several layers of understanding, a horror movie that happens inside the head of the characters, a game of suspicion and discovering AND a realistic divorce story. Extremely well photographed and cut, led by awesome actors and with a sublime touch of a suffocating music score, "Dark Water" is an achievement yet to be fully appreciated.

"Cronicamente Inviável/Chronically Unfeasible" is Bianchi's strongest movie. Also his best work. From script to cut, from actors to photographing, Bianchi brilliantly directs a drainage of old and open wounds of Brazilian recent History. Somewhat like in "Anna: Ot shesti do vosemnadtsati" (1993) -- classical Nikita Mikhalkov's documentary that deeply relates the end of the Soviet Empire -- Bianchi's movie performs a deep panel of his country society. Unlike "Anna", instead, it is a transversal rather than a longitudinal (timeline) cut. Both of them give the public a wonderful job of information AND opinion. If you are interested in the problems of Third World, specially Brazil, you MUST see this movie.