Word: characterize
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A few days later, Soderbergh and his star, Benicio Del Toro, presented Che at the Havana Film Festival. The authorities had warned they would not allow the picture to be shown if it was critical of Fidel Castro, and they found nothing objectionable. (One scene included in the original Cannes...
The dyspepsia of Del Toro's performance is partly due to the bromides he has to enunciate - that the most important quality of a revolutionary is "love," and that he's not a Catholic but "I believe in mankind" - and partly because so little information is vouchsafed about his non...
In the end, the Cuban newspaper was nearly right: it's not the Castro character but the whole of this grand, doomed experiment that lacks "charisma and depth."
So often when we evaluate dramatic performances in films, we cheat. As we don’t know what it’s like to be chased by dinosaurs, or to fight in a war, we instead cut an onscreen character down to size, distill what we can relate to...
...intended as a dark comedy, its casual depictions of sadism and brutality quickly become tiresome. The man attacked in the opening sequence reappears later on, and his traumatic experience is essentially played for laughs. A minor character is also viciously murdered midway through the film, and his death is characterized as little more than collateral damage. The ethos of “Nobel Son” seems to imply that the suffering of innocent strangers can be rather humorous. Only the attractive, wealthy characters at the center of the film truly matter as human beings, it seems. Ethics aside, what...