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Release Date: 19 October, 1999 Retail Price: $27.95 OUR Price: $19.99 You SAVE: $7.96! Cast: |
The City of Lost Children Reviews
Some Images Made Me Gasp, but as to the Plot...Sheesh
This film looks just amazing, but the plot is a jumbled mess of ideas borrowed from other movies and stories and it does not follow through on its own premises. But was there ever a more hideous, striking film image than the one of Daniel Emilfork straight on while dreaming his nightmares? Stunning closeups.
It is a serious flaw in the film that the filmmakers had no moral compass. The hero (the strongman, One), under the influence of a drug, it's true, attacks the child heroine (Mirette). It's really way over the line to show this hulk slapping this little girl around repeatedly.
I don't agree with the reviewers who attacked the movie as portraying a sexual relationship between One and Mirette. That's reading a lot into it, and that reading does not seem justified. He is protective of her and is adopting her as a little sister, not as a sexual object.
Because of occasional weird and horrible violence, especially against a child, this is definitely not a movie for children.
b-o-r-i-n-g... but i guess i'm in the minority
I'll preface this by saying that i enjoyed Amelie, have seen my share of French film, admired & loved Dark City, and am not the least bit concerned with the supposed "pedophilism" that certain American conservative kooks apparently project onto the film. However, not long after the movie began i was already checking my watch, which is never a good sign. As visually interesting as the story was, i don't believe there are any interesting nor sympathetic characters. Each role is sorta thrown at the viewer without much rhyme or reason, and none end up as being particularly interesting. Sure, the sets are both blaring and mysterious, simultaneously evoking a mid-century cartoon and a noirish caper flick. The problem is that the story around the interesting visuals is... well... not very interesting. Realizing this is fantasy, i won't mention a dozen plot-holes large enough to sail a mine through, nor will I kvetch about the empty lack of any meaningful purpose for the goings-on that contribute to the lack of identifying with any of the characters. Even with all of the logic stripped out, this film still managed to bore me. Believe me, i wanted to like it, but it just wasn't happening.
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