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| Dead Man 1 of 10 |
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| Directed by Jim Jarmusch Cinematography by Robby M�ller Johnny Depp Gary Farmer Iggy Pop Crispin Glover Eugene Byrd Gabriel Byrne John Hurt Alfred Molina Robert Mitchum |
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| Pretentious junk. 99.99% style. And the other .01% sure wasn�t story. Not sure what it was. Depp was good, as always. But there is no way for him to rise above this stuff, no saving the film with a brilliant performance this time. No one could do that. Pointlessly violent, with very, very random characters and events. It feels too much like an effort to completely destroy the idea that there were brave, upright, straightforward men in the American West. Instead, everyone is completely messed up: cannibals, rapists, transvestites, prostitutes...another example of what Hollywood does so well. It shows you so much depravity, but never gives you anything normal to compare it to. And so it completely loses the impact it might have had, because there are normal people; there are good people. And if you make something completely devoid of good or normal things, it feels - and is - completely unreal. Seemed almost as though Jarmusch was trying to reduce the entire Western genre to the absurd. He didn�t do that, because that can�t be done. There will always be Westerns, and good ones at that. But he certainly did produce something absurd. Now, about the style. If there had been any semblance of a body for these clothes to hang on, they would have been beautiful. But they were completely empty, and it was finally impossible to overlook that. I was also disturbed by the number of famous actors that made cameo appearances. Jarmusch obviously has the ear of Hollywood illuminati�and that may be the most disturbing thing of all.
�That gun will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will be written in blood.� |
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