The makers of this movie took advantage of the intrinsic implications of the evil life of Eichmann to make a film that adds nothing to the knowledge of the subject, but tries to "enliven" it with gratuitous nude scenes, incomprehensible and uninteresting forays into the interrogator's private life, and reprehensible attempts at parallels between the lives of the Israeli and the Nazi. Steven Fry played his role as if he were running a sales office, the rest of the cast were uninteresting at best. And no, the Eichmann portrayal really wasn't particularly outstanding - just less boring than the others. But what actor couldn't sink his teeth into Eichmann - essentially a blank slate onto which he could project whatever vision he and the director chose? What we have are movie-makers incapable of making a profound film hijacking a profound subject and pretending that they've done so. Talk about immoral
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Slumdog Millionaire
(2008)
bah humbug
23 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Bah Humbug. Oh wait. That's another Dickens story. This one just plagiarizes Oliver Twist with a villain who makes Bill Sykes seem almost benign. The rest is fake-realism (a child covered with excrement forces his way through a crowd that neither recoils nor shoves him away) with a jumble of quick back and forward story-telling so the viewer won't realize how thin the plot is.
So it won a ton of Academy Awards - those self-serving hand-outs that were created as a Hollywood promotion. Which they still are, though now gilded with a faux patina of seriousness and importance. Just like this movie.
So it won a ton of Academy Awards - those self-serving hand-outs that were created as a Hollywood promotion. Which they still are, though now gilded with a faux patina of seriousness and importance. Just like this movie.
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