Carla's Song
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Movie Reviews of Carla's Song
Movie Review: Great film
Summary: 5 Stars
In this film, Director Ken loach sucessfully crystalized his unshaken belief on humanity. there's clear difference between his former film "land and freedom", both films descrive one indivisual goes through wartime in foreign country and the end of personal relationship they confront in the middle of chaotic situation. However, unlike "Land and freedom", the hero,Jorge,bus driver in Glassgow,never has been politically motivated character in the first place. He went to nicaragua together with his girlfriend, Carla, to help her to face her past by finding her ex-boyfriend and to overcome inner trauma and scar. Jorge eventully started being frustrated with his powerlessness against the inhuman crisis ongoing in her homeland.
Contrally to "land and freedom" The story moves on from personal reality to political reality. Yet more importantly, this film beautifully captures one's spiritual growth through relationship.
I think that's what makes this film so real, powefull and thought provoking one.
Movie Review: Excellent film
Summary: 5 Stars
Possibly Ken Loach's finest work. If you only know Robert Carlyle from The Full Monty, then view this. Thee won't be a dry eye in the house. The DVD transfer is disappointing & the extras are minimal to say the least but the quality of the story & film making outshine any technical misgivingdMovie Review: What if?
Summary: 5 Stars
As always, Ken Loach made of a simple story, a revealing, breathtaking and hard to forget movie around a Scottish bus driver and a Nicaraguan woman.
Inch by inch, a worthy film to watch.
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Summary: 4 Stars
This was a good movie the players did an excelant performance. The only problem was some of the dialog was in Spanish and I didn't follow along with Carla. Otherwise wonderful love story.Movie Review: Absurd "Love Story" Mixed With Sandinista Propaganda
Summary: 1 Stars
George is a young and irresponsible bus driver from Glasgow, Scotland. He ends up getting fired for, among other offenses, giving free rides to a Nicaraguan immigrant named Carla. George then becomes romantically obsessed with Carla and buys two plane ticket so they can go to Nicaragua and search for her ex-boyfriend Antonio. What the hell is this guy thinking? But wait it gets even weirder.
From there George follows her like a puppydog through various Nicaraguan warzones full of good guy Sandinistas and bad guy Contras before Carla finally discovers her lost love Antonio. Then George happily makes his way home to Scotland.
This most unlikely "love story" is also a Communist propaganda film. Yes, Somoza was a horrible dictator and Reagan, Oliver North and crew were certainly wrong to covertly and illegally fund the Contras, (remember the Iran-Contra scandal). But the Sandinistas were no saints themselves. They formed a totalitarian Marxist-Leninist government which censored the free expression of dissent and received military support from the Soviet Union.
Because of Reagan's funding of the Contras, American liberals, like myself, tended to romanticize the Sandinistas in the 1980's. But the truth is that they were just another corrupt, authoritarian Latin American regime, like Castro in Cuba or Chavez in Venezuela. Because of Cold War politics, the war in Nicaragua raged on for more than a decade and victimized the ordinary people of the country, who were murdered and brutalized by both Contras and Sandinistas. But this movie declines to present a balanced portrait.
By the way, I am still a liberal. But the maturity and education that have come to me with age, along with being married to a wonderful Latina, have helped me develop a more knowledgable and realistic perspective on Latin American politics.
It's hard to say which part of the film is worse - the totally ridiculous "romance" between George and Carla or the Sandinista propaganda. Also the thick Scottish accents in the early part of the movie are nearly incomprehensible and the second half of the movie is mostly in Spanish. Yet the film has no subtitles. Stay away from this one.
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