Monday, March 04, 2013

Logging

Film:  Burn! with Marlon Brando

Let begin by saying thank God the revolutionaries didn't win during the 20th century because the world would have been one big boring place to live.  This film had many good elements and should have been good - Brando as a charismatic lead character, a story about a fictional revolutionary state that I thought resembled a mini-version of Brazil in the racial dynamics, a filmmaker who was willing to go out and find real faces from god-knows-where and shoot the movie off in some treacherous territory, a pretty good score by Morricone.

But the scenes were just bad and didn't flow from one to another.  It was more lecture than drama and it didn't matter how good some of the elements were, I was in and out of sleep in 30 minutes.

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