Butterfly
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Movie Reviews of Butterfly
Movie Review: Could've been soooooo much better...
Summary: 1 Stars
I would've given this film the 3 stars that it deserves, but I felt I had to cancel out all the nincompoops who give "Easy 5's" in their reviews.The beginning of this film is moving, captivating, poignant; the ending of this film is also.
Unfortunately, what you have in between is a bunch of unrecognizable, undecipherable metaphor which starts to bore you in short order. It looks as though this film was lifted from a written work in which this middle metaphors were more easily discernible. However, when you make the darn thing a film, for goodness sakes, you have to be less subtle about things. Explain yourself, Mr. Moviemaker. Most of western civ. has forgotten there ever was a Spanish Civil War, and yet you expect us to grasp your hidden, esoteric metaphors???
Have you ever actually met another living human being who has read George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia"? Almost without exception--NO.
Thus, this movie could have been SOOOOOO much better, if they just explained things better.
The beginning and the ending are powerful. Then there's all that yawn-fest material in-between.
How sad...