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Elegy (2008)
Roger Ebert's review
Just reading the many long reviews posted, I can see how this movie has moved so many viewers. Like all of Coixet's films, it makes the audience think and feel, and never leave anyone unaffected. Coixet and Meyer have done a terrific job of neutralizing Roth's male fantasies. Kingsley in the "male" role transforms the story by presenting himself as this totally assured professional and successful man who hides many scars that are only perceptible when Penelope enters his life.
Just another comment on the first review posted on the ELEGY page. I read Roger Ebert's review and many of his comments were included in this review without making reference to the source. Perhaps the guidelines for writing comments should stress that "borrowing" must be acknowledged.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Great political satire
I am not a Sandler fan and find his comedies silly and not worth the trouble. BUT "Zohan" was great. In today's political situation, when you can not say a word about the Israel-Palestine situation without having someone attack you, seeing a movie that will attract a mass audience because of Sandler's popularity, deal with this never-ending war (has never been a conflict, whatever that means) was not only refreshing but very advanced thinking. It might be silly, but it demystifies all the "glory" of war and religious superiority. It looks at Jews and Palestineans as people who want to live in peace and perhaps, together, fight against the global plunderers of the world: monopolies (or as Hardt and Negri name them: empire).
Maldeamores (2007)
Media manipulation
This film is a good example of how through media manipulation you can sell a film that is no more than a very unfunny TV sitcom. In Puerto Rico the daily newspaper with the widest circulation has continuously written about the marvels of this film, almost silencing all others. Coincidentally the newspaper with the second largest circulation belongs to the same owners. The weekly CLARIDAD is the only newspaper on the island that has analyzed the film's form and content, and pointed out all its flaws, clichés, and bad writing.
Just because a film makes a portion of the audience laugh with easy and obvious jokes, and because one can recognize actors and scenery, does not make it an acceptable film.
Lions for Lambs (2007)
Let's continue to speak about this insane war.
This particular comment should not appear first or alone because it says nothing and is totally misleading. Does boring mean that the film makes you think, that it tells stories on different levels, that it merges the reality we live in today, that it forces the audience to acknowledge that every day US soldiers and Irak civilians die in a war created by private enterprise?
The film addresses young people, the indifferent and those who are convinced by the war propaganda, the mishandling of news by multinational media people who seem not to question official information, politicians who continue to uphold official decisions so as not to tarnish their careers, and the impotence felt when one can do so little to stop the war mongers.