Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite Year definitely has moments of brilliance--the Musketeer sketch and "Welcome to Brooklyn" come to mind--but they are not enough to save the show from its mediocre music, abysmal lyrics and overwrought plot...
...story is simple; there is no time for plot build-up. Daryl Downs (Pamela D. Meekins) is an exotic art dealer who happens to be black and who wants to buy a painting from Steel (Patrick Sylvain). Steel is an artist from Trinidad who repeatedly refers to his work as "his soul," implying a symbolic tie to his African heritage. When Steel refuses to "sell his soul away" for money, intra-racial conflict ensues between those espousing more practical and more philosophical responsess to prejudice...
...plot is somewhat predictable and melodramatic, though many of the relationship scenes are poignant. The performance scenes, however, are explosively energetic and entertaining. The film's highlight is the cultural whirlwind tour of the music and fashion of the decades it encompasses. The aesthetic experience generated by the fantastic wigs, glittery and sleek costumes, the recognizable tunes and the panoramic views of the concerts make this film one of the most visually creative of the year...
...know this isn't going to turn out to be an idle incident. A little later, when he is outraged at discovering his prepubescent daughter Blanca skinny-dipping with Pedro, his estancia foreman's son, you sense that moment too is going to have its consequences somewhere down the plot line. For from its opening frames, The House of the Spirits announces itself as one of those sagas in which there are no accidents, only portents of big-time ironies to come...
...sale and possible public ownership. De facto chairman Sydney Mussberger (Paul Newman) moves to elect a complete imbecile president so Wall Street will panic, and the stock will plunge. Barnes proves himself more than worthy, but when his idiocy becomes golden, Mussberger and the board are forced to plot his fall from power by manipulating the brilliant but friendless journalist spy Archer...