One of those movies you can't stop watching for the first third, regret watching for the second third, then can't look away for the final third. If only someone else but Brad Pitt. Adriana Barraza is the real winner here, playing the Mexican nanny, she's tremendous.
Brilliant photography. Typical Alejandro González Iñárritu direction, which is what makes it both irresistible and repulsively true life. Amores Perros was more complex and "tricky" in plot, but this breaths more.
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yeah, I guess the Mexican nanny part was pretty good, and the Japanese girl too. but to me the other part/two parts--Morocco and the Americans--felt really contrived. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett were not sympathetic at all here. especially Pitt. I didn't like the movie very much.
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The director's dedication was to his kids. Which is so seriously twisted, I still see red just thinking about it.
No brainer: if you have kids it breaks your heart and mind just thinking about horrible things that might happen to them despite and because of their innocence. So a whole movie about it will be fascinating and painful no matter what. I liked the connected plots and the slow pace, but it would have been dull without the horror show of hoping at least the kids will be alright.
And then he dedicates it to his own kids? Gee, thanks, dad. Maybe I'll make a plodding art film about Lizzie Borden and dedicate it to my parents. Happy Mothers' Day!
Seriously, what kind of monster does that?
No brainer: if you have kids it breaks your heart and mind just thinking about horrible things that might happen to them despite and because of their innocence. So a whole movie about it will be fascinating and painful no matter what. I liked the connected plots and the slow pace, but it would have been dull without the horror show of hoping at least the kids will be alright.
And then he dedicates it to his own kids? Gee, thanks, dad. Maybe I'll make a plodding art film about Lizzie Borden and dedicate it to my parents. Happy Mothers' Day!
Seriously, what kind of monster does that?
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OMG that's great!Mostess wrote:The director's dedication was to his kids. Which is so seriously twisted, I still see red just thinking about it.
No brainer: if you have kids it breaks your heart and mind just thinking about horrible things that might happen to them despite and because of their innocence. So a whole movie about it will be fascinating and painful no matter what. I liked the connected plots and the slow pace, but it would have been dull without the horror show of hoping at least the kids will be alright.
And then he dedicates it to his own kids? Gee, thanks, dad. Maybe I'll make a plodding art film about Lizzie Borden and dedicate it to my parents. Happy Mothers' Day!
Seriously, what kind of monster does that?
Here I was simultaneously amazed at the display of basic relationships between kids and parents (trust, truth and circumstance), and twisting in my chair watching these kids go through the stages. Having 2 boys, 5 and 7 years old, made this a difficult movie to watch from that perspective.
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