Martin’s movies — April 2008
I’m not quite sure if it was busyness or laziness, yet the truth is that I only watched two flicks in April. Both decent, though nothing that would make one scream. Here they are:
1. Life Is a Miracle (2004) (Serbia and Montenegro/France)
Knowing previous Kusturica’s movies, there is no surprises. Partly unusual comedy, partly bizarre drama supported by great sceneries, awkward characters and energetic music. A story of an engineer finding himself near the front line of a rising war in Bosnia and losing his family for a short time-being. It is imaginative and multilayered, nevertheless feels a bit slow and somehow tiring.
2. Down in the Valley (2005) (USA)
I enjoyed this one. Starring Edward Norton as mentally unstable modern cowboy (read drifter) and Evan Rachel Wood as underaged object of his desire. What starts as a romance after a casual sex changes into a psychodrama, or rather a drama with a psycho. The change is gradual so viewers get to acknowledge Norton’s character as a weird hero, before he metamorphoses into a freaky anti-hero. Nice indie film. Recommended.
Comments
Martin;
I am a TEP (Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner) a certification of the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy. Psychodrama, a therapy modality that has helped many people, began in 1921 and is the oldest form of group psychotherapy.
Your use of the word “psychodrama” in a movie review has a negative connotation and adversely affects those that could use our help. I ask that you refrain from using “psychodrama” as you have done.
Thank you,
Bill Wysong
psychodrama |ˌsīkōˈdrämə; -ˈdramə|
noun
1 a form of psychotherapy in which patients act out events from their past.
2 a play, movie, or novel in which psychological elements are the main interest.
• the genre to which such works belong.
I guess we both know what I was referring to.
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