Alfonso M (pontxo)
Alfonso's Recent Reviews
The Passion of the Christ
R
WARNING SPOILER AHEAD... The main character dies. This is the best example of
how to kick your main character's ass from beginning to end. Drove to Mexico during Holy Week/Spring Break just to sit by crazazy Catholics. Saw some crying and praying, rosary in hand, etc... that made it a great anthropological experience.
It's basically a pop corn movie.
Mammoth (Mammut)
R
It's not so bad as many have said and written about. Yes it does resemble Babel, but it's the film style but the writing from which a film begins from (aren't most movies a copy of another? and Babel is not the one that started this style, it's just the most popular today).
The film is well structured, balanced and connected in the formulaic 3.
It's a story about sacrifices and those we sacrifice because of said sacrifices. Everyone kills something within themselves. Children and motherhood are the main characters. At the end we can see that the cycle restarts once again.
Overall it's an OK film... depressing, well produced and chuck full of details that the spectator must stay aware of.
Alfonso's Favorite Movies
Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland (Hitler: A Film From Germany)
Unrated
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! One of the most misunderstood films by a controversial artist about a that guy known as Hitler. Set your mind controls for almost seven hours of no less than a fantasy! "One of Europe's boldest and most controversial film and theatre directors, Syberberg has devoted much of his career to exploring the roots of his native Germany's tragic destiny in the 20th century. His earlier films, Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King, and Karl May, developed the form of "montrous monologue", which culminated in a unique co-production by Europe's three leading broadcasters in 1977. Syberberg believes Hitler is the subject of our century, and one that needs to be explored at many levels, so that we can discover "the little bit of Hitler in all of us". Here we meet Hitler in many guises: as a ventriloquist dummy, Mr Punch (with Eva Braun as Judy), Napoleon, Chaplin's "Great Dictator", in a film which tries to combine the epic theatre of Brecht with the musical aesthetic of Wagner, and is also a film about the power of cinema itself." (www.subcin.com)
