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Tragic. Conflicted. Beautiful. Wasted.
Angelina Jolie flawlessly executes the role of Gia with grace, tragedy, and stunning beauty.

Gia's life was a tragic waste. She was overcome by the promises and lies of both the fashion culture and the drug culture. In the former she found fame and fortune but no deeper satisfaction. In the later she found deception, lies, and death. Both led her into a life of despair, discouragement, and aching lonliness.

Gia searched for life's meaning, comfort, and love in the arms of her lesbian lover, again, to no avail.

The enemy's dark powers stole her will and claimed it in the depths of death and despair. She was killed by the false promise of the drug culture - she found bondage instead of freedom and release. In the end, when the enemy had exhausted her spirit and disfigured her beauty, he killed her with HIV from her dirty needles. The very thing that had promised her release bound her in death.




favorite movie
this is my all time favorite movie. i love everything about it. i think angelina jolie did an AMAZING job playing Gia. it really shows her acting abilities in this movie. she was dramatic, funny, romantic, emotional, and a very strong character. My favorite part is the ending where she is walking in the hospital with the sheet around her and you hear angelina reading from gia's journals...its amazing. everyone should see this movie atleast once. i've probably seen it atleast a thousand times.

Angelina shines
To be honest, I did not know anything about Gia Carangi when I picked this DVD up. Now that I've seen the film, I know a bit about her life. That is all fine & well, but I remain unmoved.

Angelina Jolie turns in one of her finest performances in this film. She also looks terrific minus her clothes, and the lesbian scenes are erotic. The film is well done and the final scene is downright artistic. Also, the makeup artists did a fantastic job making Jolie go from looking drop-dead-gorgeous to looking like death warmed over (and back again) repeatedly.

So why only 2 stars, you ask? Well, the problem I have with the movie is that Gia Carangi is not a particularly interesting person. Beyond her beauty there is not a whole lot to her. She seemed very shallow and superficial and there was very little that was genuine about her. She does not evoke a whole lot of sympathy as her series of bad decisions leave one more apt to say "What is she DOING?" rather than "Wow, she is a really a victim of circumstances!" Some may call her story tragic. I call it pathetic.

With that in mind, I would recommend this DVD to two demographics: those who are big fans of Angelina Jolie and those who are big fans of Gia Carangi. Other than that, most will not find a whole lot of appealing or dramatic material here.

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