Change Your Image
kamalkicks
Reviews
.45 (2006)
B as good as A
I grew up in NYC in the 70's and the 80's.
i've seen the city turn from a multicultural exciting if sometimes gritty and dangerous place to the rarefied millionaires- only- please Disneyland that it is today.
45 reminds me of the city i knew as a boy and the flawed, dangerous but fascinating people that inhabited it.
I have seen all these actors in other projects . they are all fine and well known for a good reason. i think they are better served and show me more sides of themselves in 45 than i have ever seen before.
great story telling.
reminds me of the great Cagney movies.
Drunks (1995)
As good as a meeting
they say in the program "one day at a time". some days are harder than others. DRUNKs represents that better than any film i have ever seen. I am the member of a twelve step program. I think it is one of the greatest international communities that exists. it has changed countless lives and i am hard pressed to think or find one person who's life hasn't been affected positively by it's existence. it is a secular religion -if you will.
I believe this is the most realistic and resonant film that has ever taken as it's focus the program and it's demographic busting community.
i think the level of talent that came together to make this is a testament to it's quality.
it is not a rose colored take on the community. it reflects as does the program the myriad ways that people use, don't use, succeed and fail.
it is the truth as i experience it.