Another Day In Paradise
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Movie Reviews of Another Day In Paradise
Movie Review: Paradise Lost!
Summary: 5 Stars
Larry Clark has never been one to beat around the bush. Sugar-coat the truth. And once agin he does this by pushing reality in our faces and make us go WOW! "THIS IS THE F**KING WORLD I LIVE IN?"
And of course the soundtrack is amazing and sets the mood in every aspect.
I recommend this movie to anyone. But some will be offended but Hell! life is offensive.
Movie Review: Good Show
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this very much. It is far from the beaten track in a sort of "Drugstore Cowboy" sort of way, but at the same time is pretty original and James Woods does a really good performance here on all sides. Basically it is about the nuclear family trying to achieve the American Dream any which they can. Cue lots of drug dealing and robbing. Its a good show and well worth watching.Movie Review: Another Day In Paradise
Summary: 5 Stars
I have gotten a very awsome movie to add to my collection. It's in perfect quality and i recieved it in only 1 business day. I am very greatful. 2 thumbs up!!! and a couple of toes too! LOL Have fun and happy shopping!Movie Review: Like watching an accident -- fascinating.
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent acting by all concerned make this a powerful film. Sort of like "Boogie Nights" in its raw-nerve story. It deserves a lot more attention than it got.Movie Review: Fady Ghaly's reviews
Summary: 4 Stars
Another Day in Paradise is a stylish mix of filth and flash, of violence and jazz. It's a colorful, clever and compelling picture that poses the intricate question of whether an outlaw life of crime is sumptuous or ruinous. Based upon Eddie Little's lustful, fresh and fierce novel, director Larry Clark, who has evidently anointed himself the American cinema's poet of decadence, finding special interest in the tension generated by kids in danger, gives us a raw, non-glamorized look at the bleaker regions of American squalor. He does so very well, and yet gives his film a name that subverts the true superficial irony that lies within, luckily to then, however, generate a greater impact viewers like myself weren't initially up for, and yet once experience, develop a whole new kind of perspective and a whole new kind of respect for. Aside from the seemingly innocuous-enough-of-a-name, "Kids", which gave a false impression to many parents, as such a wildly controversial film offered a non-blinking look at the dehumanizing rituals of growing up, his latest film, which is based upon a true story, is entitled "Bully", a rather frivolous name which, though may develop an assumption in one's mind-who doesn't follow Clark's work, mind you-that it'll merely be some other light-hearted family feature that would be of a primary choice for elementary teachers arranging a special period that would give students the privilege of watching a film than to work, it in fact regards a group of teens whom, after growing weary of being aggravated upon by the school bully, lure him to a swamp where they then beat him to death. That's not funny or suitable for a class by any means. That's appalling...that's life, portrayed upon kids in the grimmest and grittiest ways.And here you have this one, which is entitled "Another Day in Paradise", but, as looks can very much so be deceiving, so can words. We know that the good times can't last, that it isn't going to be this glorious life for the foursome couple, who'll forever get the easy way out of each robbery, and then celebrate by going to fancy restaurants, getting drunk and shooting up once getting back to their apartment, for they ultimately endure the vast effects such a lifestyle has as they wind up on the verge of death's door, which sadly even opened for some of them. I mean, even in the beginning of the film you know that it isn't exactly going to be a pleasant one, as it opens with Bobby after having made love with the love of his life, Rosie, who, in order to support both her and himself, breaks into a junior college to burglarize a vending machine, merely to then find himself face-to-face with a security guard, who badly wounds him and yet, after a fierce fight, is defeated as Bobby stabs him to death with a crowbar. Soon he's being treated by Uncle Mel. "Are you a doctor?'' he asks. "Yeah, sure. I'm a doctor shooting you up with heroin," says Mel, satirically, and their chemistry progresses from there. (So does the story.)
The bond between Mel and Bobby was greatly alluring to me. In a sense, Mel was like a father to him, the loving father he never had-as dysfunctional as one can be-but a father nonetheless. As the film deepened and their friendship grew stronger, he had such empathy toward this poor little delinquent without many shoulders to lean onto, that it really fractures you to see what a pitiless and self-indulged man that allegedly loving father turns out to be in the end, when all hell broke loose and there was a real dark revolution with regards to this man's motives and abilities. As the conclusion to the synopsis on both the back of the VHS and DVD package say: But, he's a junkie on the make, and that doesn't mean that he can't use Bobby-and it sure doesn't mean he can't ditch him when he's done. What can I say? It's a tough world out there. If you're not tough enough, you aren't ever going to make it out alive.
Switching from working on G and PG-rated family features such as Alaska and Masterminds, to grittier and much more arresting R-rated adult, Vincent Kartheiser proves that he's a true actor that will not be afraid, or rather be incapable of taking on new rolls that would entirely alter his self-image to others. But unfortunately, he remains to be quite underrated, despite the deliverance of such powerful, such breathtaking performance, because throughout the last half-hour of the film, that was something in which he had definitely not failed to do. Such distinguished critics as Roger Ebert say things like how the performances are really what make this film worthy of watching, as the story was something in which he can easily anticipate, and then got specific as to why he enjoyed all the heart and soul James Woods and Melanie Griffith put into this picture, but neglected to even bother referring to Kartheiser, who I think outstaged them all! This kid is like the next Leonardo DiCaprio. (Or rather, adult. I know that he no longer wants to be refereed to as being a kid, for he really no longer is, neither is his work meant for any.) Kartheiser has matured into a young, gifted man.