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Big Fish, Big Story

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

Big Fish is a story about stories. In the same vein as Picasso’s El arte es una mentira que nos acerca a la verdad (art is a lie that makes us realize the truth) good storytelling grips you, changes you, and lets you touch a world you would never reach following more conventional paths.
It’s […]

Amputated

Friday, January 14th, 2005

“There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Boys like these, younger than these, their arms torn out, their legs ripped off. But there isn’t nothin’ like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you’re merely sending this splendid foot soldier back home to Oregon […]

Hero banks on real characters

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

Sure, the flying judo crap is a lot to swallow at first, but it goes down easy with some sugar-like cinematography so sweet it reminds you the fighting is only metaphoric.
And so it has always been with many old-school martial arts films - the fighting is something sacred that extends a part of the soul […]