Miranda345
Joined May 2007
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I loved this film. First I did not know that it was directed by Frears and I thought, vow, who made this best take of Dr Jekylls and Dr Hyde's story. Well it came up in TV again and then I discovered it was made by Frears.
I do not understand how it only rated 5 out of 10 in general. It is a masterpiece. And, I discovered, Julia Roberts can act! I am not great fan of Julia Roberts, because her acting in her usual films is quite boring and I do not find her attractive. But in this film she was beautiful and acted so well and she and John Malkovich had brilliant chemistry.
All the atmosphere and everyday life of this 19th century house was so beautifully pictured, we could almost go into this world.
I do not understand people who wrote it was boring. It was a deeply moving existential love story, full of mystery and the suspense was the twists and turns of the relationship between the characters.
Julia Roberts was absolutely brilliant: this is the top achievement of her career, not these stupid boring blockbusters like Pretty woman or Notting Hill and similar.
If you liked this also watch Frears'is two other masterpieces: Dangerous Liasons and Grifters, also thrilling love/relationship stories with lots of psychological suspense.
I do not understand how it only rated 5 out of 10 in general. It is a masterpiece. And, I discovered, Julia Roberts can act! I am not great fan of Julia Roberts, because her acting in her usual films is quite boring and I do not find her attractive. But in this film she was beautiful and acted so well and she and John Malkovich had brilliant chemistry.
All the atmosphere and everyday life of this 19th century house was so beautifully pictured, we could almost go into this world.
I do not understand people who wrote it was boring. It was a deeply moving existential love story, full of mystery and the suspense was the twists and turns of the relationship between the characters.
Julia Roberts was absolutely brilliant: this is the top achievement of her career, not these stupid boring blockbusters like Pretty woman or Notting Hill and similar.
If you liked this also watch Frears'is two other masterpieces: Dangerous Liasons and Grifters, also thrilling love/relationship stories with lots of psychological suspense.
If I compare two films with Sacha Cohen, Borat and Ali G then Ali G is immeasurably better. I'ts no master piece, but it's a film at least. Borat is complete garbage and I do not understand how it rated better then Ali G.
I cannot put my finger on it, there something wrong with the Ali G script: half of the jokes are as if written by a 15 years old, not by an adult scriptwriter. And a number of jokes including Mr Cohen's lower body are quite tasteless.
But the film actually comes together as a comedy and there are some valid jokes too that are funny: such as how Ali G becomes a member of government for doing something scandalous and stupid in the public (sadly true in today's western society: people get careers for doing stupid things in public), also Ali's advice about immigrant policy and some others.
Ali G overall remains a sympathetic character, even though a kind of mentally underdeveloped for his age. But it's OK to watch,it's quite funny.
But never ever watch Borat, it's awful and makes every intelligent movielover sick.
I cannot put my finger on it, there something wrong with the Ali G script: half of the jokes are as if written by a 15 years old, not by an adult scriptwriter. And a number of jokes including Mr Cohen's lower body are quite tasteless.
But the film actually comes together as a comedy and there are some valid jokes too that are funny: such as how Ali G becomes a member of government for doing something scandalous and stupid in the public (sadly true in today's western society: people get careers for doing stupid things in public), also Ali's advice about immigrant policy and some others.
Ali G overall remains a sympathetic character, even though a kind of mentally underdeveloped for his age. But it's OK to watch,it's quite funny.
But never ever watch Borat, it's awful and makes every intelligent movielover sick.
I do not know how Mr Cohen and his director got away with it. This film does not only have any artistic value but is downright racist as well. The film has no concept and if Borat is out there to get Americans or laugh about Kazakhstan the only person he makes look bad is himself - Sacha Baron.
There certainly are real, deep problems in American society but Mr Cohen is not targeting any of them - quite clearly for the reason that for this mission more talent and intelligence is needed.
All he is doing is hassling normal middle class people who actually give very polite and intelligent answers to his stupid questions. Most of the people interviewed react with dignity and surprising calm to all idiotic situations that Borat creates. The character of Borat is a character of a pervert and if I met somebody like him I would call police straight away or at least show him the door.
Also the film is an insult to the country of Kazakhstan.They have not deserved it in any way. It shows clearly that Borat knows nothing about real Kazakhstan and I doubt he has ever been there. If similar film had been made about any Western European country it would have been an international scandal. But as it's Kazakhstan, it is safe to make ignorant, inferior jokes.
There was a scandal on British TV recently on reality TV show Big Brother and one participant, Jade Goody lost her career over the racist comments she made on TV over an Indian movie star. The whole country stood up for the offended Indian woman.
But the jokes Mr Cohen makes on account of Kazakhstan people are much worse - how on the Earth is he getting away with it? It's not funny. The whole film is as if created by a mentally challenged 5-years old.
I do not understand how general rating of this film can be 7 out of 10. This film is cruel both towards Kazakhstan and regular, normal USA people; it's ignorant, stupid, racist and without any talent. It's complete carbage.
The only thing that had any value in this film were the real folksongs in the soundtrack. They were like flowers in the middle of dirt.
There certainly are real, deep problems in American society but Mr Cohen is not targeting any of them - quite clearly for the reason that for this mission more talent and intelligence is needed.
All he is doing is hassling normal middle class people who actually give very polite and intelligent answers to his stupid questions. Most of the people interviewed react with dignity and surprising calm to all idiotic situations that Borat creates. The character of Borat is a character of a pervert and if I met somebody like him I would call police straight away or at least show him the door.
Also the film is an insult to the country of Kazakhstan.They have not deserved it in any way. It shows clearly that Borat knows nothing about real Kazakhstan and I doubt he has ever been there. If similar film had been made about any Western European country it would have been an international scandal. But as it's Kazakhstan, it is safe to make ignorant, inferior jokes.
There was a scandal on British TV recently on reality TV show Big Brother and one participant, Jade Goody lost her career over the racist comments she made on TV over an Indian movie star. The whole country stood up for the offended Indian woman.
But the jokes Mr Cohen makes on account of Kazakhstan people are much worse - how on the Earth is he getting away with it? It's not funny. The whole film is as if created by a mentally challenged 5-years old.
I do not understand how general rating of this film can be 7 out of 10. This film is cruel both towards Kazakhstan and regular, normal USA people; it's ignorant, stupid, racist and without any talent. It's complete carbage.
The only thing that had any value in this film were the real folksongs in the soundtrack. They were like flowers in the middle of dirt.