Mr.Moustache

I don't feel like sharing the ruthless criticism with which you condemn this film and its director. Regardless of the sensationalism or the disgusting media effect this film has triggered among teenagers (rest assured, bullying existed long before this film, which perhaps for the first time analyzes it in its brutal and clownish vision), Kubrick is not Herzog because they are two different people, and Herzog is not Petri. I adore all the directors you mentioned (Pasolini and Herzog in particular), but try to read between the lines, look closely at what lies behind every image, interpret its meaning, and you'll notice the symbolic capacity that this director clearly possesses. In my opinion, Kubrick was the only one among the directors accessible to a large audience who understood the importance of cinema when approached through a strictly explicit aesthetic, which provokes multiple effects: in a kid who until a few years earlier dressed as Superman, the instinct to imitate kicks in, while in a mature and more reflective individual, entirely different responses may emerge. It’s too easy to judge a film in bad faith because it's overly popular, just as the opposite holds true. Let me put it this way: Coca-Cola is consumed by everyone for its strong flavor, yet some mechanics use it to degrease bolts... I believe you understand what I mean, goodbye.

A masterpiece. Extremely tough, although it doesn't show much on the surface. Stunning the "bureaucratizing" walks, a concept that distorts the average person and grotesquely projects them, making them seem completely clownish. Gilliam's work also features the beautiful army of the 12 monkeys.

This is a Poletti review, and it's also a fantastic movie.

ERRRORACCIO!! I meant to say "..there's never a moment when you're bored.."!!! Well, anyway, I think it's quite clear that I like this movie, and that's more than enough to make up for the mistake!!

It's truly beautiful, kosmo. With a unique kind of violence in certain parts, and I mean both physical and psychological. The desolate atmospheres of late 19th-century Australia are all there, and then there's the grime on the clothes, the dust on the uniforms of the English divisions, and Cave's music is nothing short of terrifying: dreamy, possessed, performed. An incredibly original idea, in a frontier that had much in common with the old west, aside from the Aboriginal spirituality. What really struck me were the pacing of the scenes, fluid like in very few films; there's not a moment where one gets bored, a sign of great entertainment ability. That’s enough, otherwise I might come off as an insufferable critic, even though it’s stronger than me—it truly impressed me. A greeting to you and the immense Sfascia. Watch it, it's really worth it.

"pseudo-attitudinal killer dissociation," how true all of this is!

Hard to believe, and by the way ajeje, think that even the original Japanese is copied from another Japanese horror titled Spiral (obviously awful, and with the difference that the videotapes caused a virus that would contaminate all the firstborns of humanity, what a load of crap..)

No, look, I am referring to films based on novels that are well done.

I enjoyed nothing, nothing at all. It's obvious that the average viewer expects (on average) blood, guts, witches with white contact lenses, and shameless other absurdities, but this film (as Sfascia said) has been ridiculed by everyone and yet it has made box office (and anger!) numbers worth reflecting on. A little gem, in a cinema of porno-fantasy-gothic and Tolkien narratives.

And then, excuse me: but in your opinion, if the historical period related to the story is the 19th century, and O.Twist was conceived and set in that same period, can you explain what's wrong with having to deal with settings from "smoky 19th century London," if the period being referenced is undoubtedly that one (and thus the same as Twist)? It's a bit like saying that Leone's Westerns should force all other directors intending to make a film of that genre to choose a different scenario, I don't know, maybe the Champs-Élysées?