sonofgodtrujesus

I loved this movie because it reminded me, with sincere passion, that although bad (evil) men spend most of their time being bad and by their actions are bad, there is a capacity and a knowledge of good and to do good, even in the midst of a spoiled and a wasted life. The other reason why I loved this move is that it was such a pleasure to watch professionals enter their characters and refuse to budge even for an instant in front or the camera; such acting forces you to identify with the characters and submerges you deeper into the film.

Christian and Crowe were crack a lacking, just taring up the screen; wonderful performances. Mr Lerman can act; has an uncanny ability of putting on an alter ego and reducing his own; hope to see a lot more from him in the future. Peter Fonda gave a certain old school credence to this film. A lot of modern film lack texture due to the box office draw of pretty boys and healthy hunks; Fonda certainly gave this film depth and time perception.

James Mangold cannot make a western but he is a good story teller. This film looked too new and pretty, the film was too clear, the sets were too new and not dusty enough; no one chewed tobacco and their were no prostitutes or mangy dogs; everything was just a little too polished. Good casting and good filming of the story, only the ability to create real fear and danger was almost non existent.

I can't believe the overall rating on this film was a paltry 6.0, thus it's obviously up to me to do all that is in my power to make sure this film get to at least a 6.5, or more on IMDb, seeing that this number represents my cut off point for what I'll view on film; unless, of course, I've seen the film and fallen in love with it before I've visited IMDb, then, my personal rating cut off point trumps IMDb, and I won't feel like I've just wasted 2 hours, the time it takes watch a movie while stuffing my face with popcorn. Joshua is one of those movies which I fell in love with at the theater, watching it twice, just because I wanted to see the closing scene just one more time.

This movie seriously reminded of a type of Exorcist but without the supernatural agency of evil and special effects which at times can confuse and reduce the art of film making to an amusement park theme. Joshua was just pure evil; no let me rephrase: If you ever wanted to know what pure evil is then Joshua represents the carbon copy definitive energy vibration of such a manifestation. Joshua, in time will be a cult classic, only its so dark I doubt if it will ever go mainstream, due to the fact that it utterly demonizes a certain group in our society, which I'm sure do not want the added label of masochistic & sadists.

Truly one of the most vulgar movies I've ever seen. Jacob Kogan did a spectacular job. I cant tell you how many times I wanted to kick some anti rational sense into this child until love manifested; first rate acting - my blood ran cold. Kogan should do some pretty good work if he can keeps his personality and mind together through puberty; a truly wonderful recruit to the film badboys, yea, weze baby, bop bop bop! The psychological dynamics of this film is what I found most interesting. the fact that a child can learn just about anything in our society even Sun Tzu warfare and complete dysfunctional passionate obsession, but not love, is the one great symbolic message in Joshua which rings true and resonated on my psyche most after watching this film. My new cut off for viewing films is 6.1 on IMDb thanks to Joshua.