Il Divo was a film that the European critics went nuts over. But I didn’t “get it.” It was the most confusing film since Syriana and while 7-time Italian PM Andreotti may have been associated with dozens of faked suicides, there’s no smoking gun.
On the other hand, in Public Enemies, there are lots of smoking guns, indeed, there is little else. It was a standard shoot-‘em-up ‘30’s gangster movie, ennobled by the fantastic performance of Marion Cotillard who has the bility, like Meryl Streep, to come up with an incredibly different and difficult-to-identify accent, neither French nor American Indian.
But the “perfect movie,” as others have described it, is The Hurt Locker, which, like Platoon, gives you the taste, smell and fear of war in a distant place. For the first time, I think I understood what our troops are facing from IED’s, suicide bombers and the like.
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