Reviews
Broken Arrow (1996)
The Arrow? it's broken, but not too much
two military pilot: Travolta decides to steal two thermo-nuclear bombs. Slater must stop him. the logic suggests that the need of many are more important than the single one, but not in this film (and not in Hollywood, see The PeaceMaker for example) where the life of a woman (Mathis) is more important than 250.000 ones. It's nice, but too many politically correct. All the characters are too relaxed, too good, considering that the problem are two "big" thermo-nuclear bombs. A very good "bad" Travolta, a not so bad "good" Slater, a "out of place" Mathis, too thin also to be a policeman. The film could be better, but maybe it was only a test preparing "Face/Off" ?.
The Truman Show (1998)
The new Adam fall?
When Adam and Eve has gone on earth, It was a fall or a escape? For The Truman Show it was, it is, an escape. Every man long for what he hasn't, both an apple or a normal "real" life, swapping it with the "paradise". The Truman show is the story of the Truman search of the knowledge and of the true, despite the risk the fear, the Creator and ... the happiness?
The Truman show is a Hollywood story told us with not too much "shouted" humour thanks to a "new" great Jim Carrey and a touch of class due to a great Ed Arris. Almost anyone else is notable.
The Tango Lesson (1997)
Potter Tango make a thin story in a magic film
Sally Potter is always a very original film fact-totum. In this film much more: Not only she write, direct, play and music the film, but she has given both herself and film to the Tango, that is the only true Star.The story is so thin, the characters are so light, the scene are cold, they seems only fills-in. Only the danced frames are full of inspiration and passion. The words are substituted with Tango (and its music), and also a classic scene like the separation at the airport became magic.