The Milk of Sorrow Is A Terrible Film
I am actually not a troll.
JL, I agree with your opinion, but please elaborate a little further if you don’t want to be mistaken for a troll.
“Uncle Boonmee” is terrible. “The Milk of Sorrow” is crap. “Honey” doesn’t taste good either.
I disagree. I think it’s a great film.
…and “Bad Lieutenant is the only Herzog film that can be called a masterpiece” is another jewel.
Get back under your bridge, Troll.
The Milk of Sorrow is a disciplined portrayal of pain amid a desolate atmosphere where, still, people are shown to have lives and dreams and celebrations. And good for Llosa to not have aestheticized that community for the benefit of the beautiful people. That juxtaposition between the internal turmoil of the protagonist and the sense of community built upon poverty is the thematic axis of the film… and a valid one. Poverty is enormously prevalent in Latin American countries and I see no reason why it should not be addressed by filmmakers or any other artist. Can it be exploitative? Yes, but The Milk of Sorrow is not such a case: it is very well focused on the internal world of one particular victim of terrorism and misery. Amid all this, the film manages to be poetic (for me, successfully).
That discourse which insists that the portrayal of poverty as exploitative just for the fact that it is portrayed as what it is reminds me of that Mafalda strip where Mafalda laments the sorry state of the poor around her and wonders how they could be helped, and Susanita responds “Why go to all that trouble? We could just hide them”.
Good for Llosa to have won in Berlin. Latin American cinema is under appreciated enough (first and foremost by Latin American viewers, I’m sorry to say) to have to be attacked in an unsubstantiated manner the few times it gets the spotlight.
I thought it sounded pretty good. But I’ll more than likely not take into consideration the opinion of a person who will create an entire thread stating that they don’t like it and not giving any explanation as to why they feel that way. Sorry buddy.
Hey, he said he wasn’t a troll—what more do you want? A troll wouldn’t lie . . . right?
Would the film have won an award had it been made by an unknown, rather than a scion of the elite right-wing Llosa family?
No one can answer.
^ Because you mingle politics and art. So just because Ezra Pound was a fascist, he should be stripped off of his writer’s identity? You’re a scam JL, get the fuck out of here you pathetic troll.
(damn, I fed it more)
What’s your favorite food?
No one can answer.
—Or no one will. Same way you chose to not explain your dismissal.
“I am actually not a troll.”
Haha.
I am trying to have a serious discussion. Thank you.
No, thank YOU:
“It’s crap.
But it’s gorgeously shot.
Still, it’s crap.”
Serious discussion indeed.
Have any of you seen it?
Just do yourself a favor and stop posting on this forum, JL. You’re unable to add anything substantial and waste people’s time with your meaningless rants. If you should start another thread like this, then I will flag it immediately.
JL, since when does “It’s crap. But it’s gorgeously shot. Still, it’s crap.” constitute serious discussion? Fuck off back to your cave
he listed these as “as 10 films you MUST have seen to even be in with a chance of being a true Cinephile” Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Inception
Kill Bill
Toy Story
Spiderman
Star Wars
Juno
Fucking hilarious.
He should stick to his beloved blockbusters and post on imdb where he will find like-minded people who also think that art equals crap.
I’m happy you guys are enjoying that top 10 list.
Edit why bother
I think s great, and you guys keep your mouth shut.
Thanks, Narda!
JL
It’s crap.
But it’s gorgeously shot.
Still, it’s crap.