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La capa gira (2000)
Views of a Underdog-Microcosm
The story is all about some semi-professional drug-dealers in Bari, Southern Italy. However, there is no story to speak of, but it doesn't really matter because it's all in the characters: their words, their gestures and their faces. For everyone familiar with standard Italian the very strong Bari accent ("Barese") proves very hard to understand and even most Italians will need subtitles. This is therefore one of those wonderful low-budget Italian art movies - true jewels of pictographic and linguistic milieu studies - that will appeal especially to persons that have some personal acquaintance with the place and the people living there. I wouldn't be surprised, though, that others will find movies of that sort boring or even uninspired, maybe they don't even see the point. In any case, if you liked "Lacapagira" (The head is spinning), then watch the better known movie "Mio cognato" by the same director, with a stunning Sergio Rubini (who himself hails from the region of Bari).
Demolition Man (1993)
Not where the action is
One of the commentators here said about the movie: "nobody likes it, apparently". Right. But they're wrong. This movie has been sold as an action movie and it has actors famous for action and little else besides. Yet action is not the point here, for the film is a bitter-sweet ironical farce about our coming destiny in the world of consumism; seen thus, the action is accidental to the movie. Just remember the scene about the car radio that exclusively plays 15-second music clips from commercials! Well, we've got almost that far. To sum up: What a strange and extraordinary Stallone movie!! Rambo meets Big Brother, and there's a lot to laugh ... and to reflect afterwards. As a consequence, this is the only Stallone movie I have in my DVD collection. And this says something.