Friday, October 29, 2004
Curtis White прав насчет 
I like this movie principally because it has it both ways; it is both a fine representative of its type (a cowboy movie, a western) and a commentary on its type. ... Complexity. Rio is no simple avenging angel. He's a one-eyed Jack himself. It's not that he has a "dark side." This is not a movie about good and evil. He is complicit. ... This contradiction in Rio's character is never resolved. ... One-Eyed Jacks is left balanced on these multiple ironies. Is this a serious cowboy movie or a commentary on cowboy movies and their inane black hat/white hat ethics? ... What this movie achieves it achieves through self-awareness of conventional expectations ...
And, very appropriately,
- случайно взял в библиотеке. Smashing. Изумительные сцены в кабаре, не говоря уже обо всем остальном.
"The title comes from the North African tribe, the Rifs, who were in constant conflict. So it's all about melees and conflicts and fighting, out of which the novelist Auguste Le Breton made the word 'rififi.'"
I like this movie principally because it has it both ways; it is both a fine representative of its type (a cowboy movie, a western) and a commentary on its type. ... Complexity. Rio is no simple avenging angel. He's a one-eyed Jack himself. It's not that he has a "dark side." This is not a movie about good and evil. He is complicit. ... This contradiction in Rio's character is never resolved. ... One-Eyed Jacks is left balanced on these multiple ironies. Is this a serious cowboy movie or a commentary on cowboy movies and their inane black hat/white hat ethics? ... What this movie achieves it achieves through self-awareness of conventional expectations ...
And, very appropriately,
- случайно взял в библиотеке. Smashing. Изумительные сцены в кабаре, не говоря уже обо всем остальном.
"The title comes from the North African tribe, the Rifs, who were in constant conflict. So it's all about melees and conflicts and fighting, out of which the novelist Auguste Le Breton made the word 'rififi.'"
