POR FIN!!!!! encontre una reseña extrajera de una película colombiana

He aquí un real descubrimiento, una honesta reseña internacional de una película Colombiana. Se acaba de convertir en un pequeño tesoro personal, sobretodo porque esta tan llena de verdad que casi se me salen las lagrimas leyéndola. Yo sabía que no estaba sólo y que este tuerto era un farsante. Aquí va el link original http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35352

…y he aquí la reseña:

Okay, now on to another movie. It’s called Perro Come Perro (Spanish for “Dog Eat Dog”), a Columbian crime “thriller” about the thug hiding gobs of American cash from the fellow thugs and the mob boss for his own gain. I went to see this movie because of a gushing capsule preview by a “critic” screening hundreds of movie submissions for Sundance in the film catalog. It’s obvious she was doped up on drugs.

“Perro Come Perro” is rank amateur in terms of cinematography (so irritating it makes Bourne Ultimatum look positively restrained), editing (overused “speed-up” editing and annoying two-second blackout flashes), some overacting (particularly the mob boss, with the laughable facial expression of puffing face in raging anger) paltry-written & horribly cliched script that doesn’t even make sense at all (the movie involve a vex-casting voodoo priest and a mysterious dead man in the casket that haunts the particular black thug’s dream). The story’s so dreadfully lulling I resisted the urge to doze off, and I did doze off in the meandering middle.

The movie emphasize the gritty and nasty with its over the top violence that seems to glamorize gross brutality for the sake of violence, as though it’s the cinematic love letter to violence that only the death-row prisoners would admire for depicting absolute nihilism. Maybe that’s the actual point of the title.

I’m an admirer of Sam Peckinpah’s “Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia”, which utilize brutal violence with actual story in substance to a superior effect. Perro Come Perro is so lurid in its exploitation of glorified violence that it’s as sensational as Latin American tabloid magazines that publish the gory pictures. The movie felt amateurish, with constantly shaky cinematography and awful acting that tried to emphasize rough & grit stoicism. This is not a “thriller” in any sense, because the editing and story are incredibly trite. There’s a particularly grotesque death scene involving the buzzing chainsaw (though not shown in full) that appear to have been lifted straight out of “Scarface”. This movie doesn’t have an original bone in the body, only trying to up the ante by being as nasty as the movie can be in terms of violence with dead aesthetic and lesser artistic value. Sounds familiar — that was “Chaos”.

“City of God” this ain’t, and easily one of the worst movies at this year’s Sundance. I thought Sundance represent the quality choices of filmmaking, but apparently not. The Sundance 08 film catalog capsule reviewer who lauded “Perro Come Perro” must have seen a different movie, otherwise she must be on drugs when she saw the movie. Pure trite horseshit that should have seen straight to video in Latin America market, like shitty Mexiploitation movies. I’m a reasonable moviegoer with an opinionated point of view, but this movie isn’t good in any aspect — just shitty bad. I’m sure some moviegoers felt the same as they left the screening promptly as the credit roll, not caring for the Q&A session afterwards indicate their disdain.

0 star

Un hermoso oasis lleno de verdad en este desolado desierto de criticas.

Hasta la próxima, Seudonimato

~ by seudonimato on September 22, 2009.