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Movie Reviews of Dead Man
Movie Review: Every time...
Summary: 5 Stars
No matter how many times I watch this movie... Every time I finish it I get the feeling I've died once again. Don't get me wrong, I think this film must be the one I feel the strongest about and the reason is that from the first time I saw it I understood that we all go through life but never really die while we are doin' whatever it is that we do, at least not in the way the movie shows us.
Yeah... We lose people, we lose our jobs, we lose our minds, but we never really lose all sense of direction, finding a new path to our lives. This is, for me, what the movie is all about: losing it all, all that is somewhat meaningless to realize nothing really meant that much anyway. If you can see that, then you'll learn to appreciate what's left. It'n not that we are alone, it's that we are never really alone. It's hard to let go of everything, your work, your friends, your loved ones, even for a split second... That's what I mean by dying.
Anyway, when I watch this movie I get a little of that feeling. The solitude and the freedom of being a DEAD MAN. Nothing follows you when you take that final journey. No one is there though ;P
Bottom line: great movie. Being shot in Black and White really helps you to sink in and the soundtrack by Neil Young is the perfect score to a trip like this.
I've never been a fan of Jim Jarmusch, but he really got me with this one.
Movie Review: Twilight of the Wild West
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw Jarmusch's Dead Man in New York at a movie house with a sputtering, broken sound system. This left a bad impression and I was slow to return to the film until I saw it on Czech television (without commercial interruption). By then I was infatuated and have since purchased the DVD to study the terms and conditions of its claim on my imagination. The sometimes scorching, oftimes lyrical Neil Young score is so intertwined now with my appreciation of the film that its first aborted attempt to lay claim to my interest has receded. Jarmusch has found the great idiomatic middle ground of art by intonation - i.e., the making of a film that hardly requires dialog at all. The freakish elements of the narrative (the occasional gruesomeness) seem almost outtakes, and it may well be simply a gesture at pure surreality for Jarmusch to include the pathetic to compensate for the intense pain of the black-and-white odyssey towards death made by William Blake (Johnny Depp), ne'er do well and waif shipwrecked in the bleak and sinister twilight of the Wild West. Gary Farmer as Nobody, Blakes' Indian guide to the edge of the other side, is both a hoot and a well-crafted play on the noble savage. (As reprise, the same character turns up in Jarmusch's Ghost Dog.) Anyway, once you know the story you could simply disappear into the visuality of the film and never return.Movie Review: "Don't let the sun burn a hole in your ass William Blake.."
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is incredibly sullen. It's dark -literally and figuratively. Like very few reviewers I found it to be wholesome and complete. Some find it chauvinistic becuz it's a "western". Watch the movie, rather, experience this movie, and you will see that this movie is all but "western". It's an art film. My advice is not to watch it when you are in a good mood. Soundtrack is THE important part of this movie. At first, Neil Young vehemently penetrates your ears with the bass guitar. Then, as the movie proceeds, it settles in. After a while, the soundtrack, the black and white cinematography, the dialogues between Depp and Farmer, they all blend in. Like someone already wrote, the movie plays on all kinds of different levels. This movie epitomized 19th century American West and the Pacific Northwest for me. I loved everything about this incredible film. I mean, if it wasn't for this movie, I would have never even paid attention to William Blake. Don't try to figure out the details or events that happen in the movie. To be corny, "let the river of mirror take you on a journey accross the sea...".Here's a little teaser:
Nobody (Farmer): " You seem to have collected more of white man's metal, William Blake".
William Blake (Depp): "Yeah, I seem to be a magnet for it".
Movie Review: Modern-Day Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
... Jarmusch's best film since the brilliant Stranger Than Paradise and perhaps his best film altogether.Only one critic really got it right and that's the usually reliable Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader whose Dead Man review titled "Acid Western" is a must-read. Rosenbaum also wrote a BFI book on Dead Man which is highly recommended.
Dead Man is the first movie I ever went to the theater on three consecutive days to watch. The movie pulls me into its world like few others - 2001, Taxi Driver and Stranger Than Paradise come to mind. Muller's b&w photography is stunning and Neil Young's soundtrack is one of the best ever recorded (Ebert, who hated the film, says it sounds like "a man repeatedly dropping his guitar" but then Ebert, as fine as man as he is, also thinks Tomb Raider, XXX and Daredevil are good movies.)
Some people will find Dead Man unbearably slow. Others will find it hypnotic. Those in the latter group will find the movie to be a unique, special experience, the kind only an auteur like Jarmusch can provide. Nobody is one of the most unforgettable characters in modern cinema.
This is one of those movies, like Stranger Than Paradise, which makes me want to thank the director. So, to Mr. Jarmusch, thank you so very much. You've made my life richer with this movie.
Movie Review: Poetry in the old west
Summary: 5 Stars
Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man" is not only the best film of the 90's, but a mysterious, beautiful film that stands high among the finest American Films ever made. But at the same time, I can understand why many people disliked it. To quote Roger Ebert "The soundtrack by Neil Young sounds like nothing more then a guitar being repeatadly dropped on the ground". But you have to consider that Jarmusch chose this score for a reason. It's sort of like the anti-Hollywood score. Jarmusch himself said that there are so many taleneted musicians out there, he's at a loss to explain why almost all scores in movies today sound exactly the same. I've seen the movie 8 or 9 times now, and own it on dvd. The film is absolutely beautiful and quite thought-provoking. What you have to understand is that it's really a tale of one mans journey towards death, if you go in with the idea that it's going to be your typical shoot-em-up western, you're probably going to hate it. There are also alot of subtle messages in the film and plently of witty humor and dialogue to keep the viewer entertained. This is a film that can only increase in beauty and get better with repeated viewings. Go in with limited expectations and you might end up enjoying it or maybe even loving it as much as I did.