heinzrogel

A good story is not its storyline, a story is its theme. The theme may hide behind the plot and only gradually show up.

This movie tells a good story. Its storyline follows a father who is looking for his runaway son. The theme behind it is the structure of the Brazilian society, the separation of the bourgeois class from the poor, the destitute, the hopeless. You should see it, even if it's only the Portuguese version. No, you should try to see it just because it IS the Portuguese version.

In the reviews above no one says anything about the superb acting of the two young men. I especially liked Kevin Gottschalk's performance. Look at the way he moves. Listen to his creepy voice. Rarely have I seen a better bad guy in any other neo-noir movie. You have to be rather courageous to gather all these disgusting, stupid, childish, beastly parts of yourself in order to depict a character so depraved and pitiful at the same time. I'm sure the director Kent Lamm had a large share in this. The other actor, Chris Fornataro, did a very good job, too. His task was almost more difficult. He had to play this torn, broken, lost young guy pretending to be evil, brutal and hardened by crime.

The ending of the film shows how good its plot has been devised. If this had not been an independent production the ending would have been ruined by some studio boss or some other one-track-minded idiot. But Fornataro and Lamm have found the right mixture between credibility and suspense throughout the action of the movie and have sustained it till the end.

A really simple, simply real love story, sometimes a bit too real, sometimes a bit too simple, but all in all turned out well.

Good acting by the three young adults. They seem to be able to embed parts of their personalities into the characters they impersonate. We watch them getting to know each other as if we were sitting in the car with them. There were certain moments that reminded me of the atmosphere in "Before Sunrise", a film I find unsurpassed regarding the believability of a love story.

Of course, there's always the verdict of repetitiveness that looms over films like that. Why should we watch something at the cinema or on television that is probably happening right now next door or in one of the cars out there in the street? Well, you don't have to. But if you want to remember the moments when you fell in love with someone you might remember them watching "Wild Blue".