Gia (Unrated Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Gia (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Love Angelina Jolie
Summary: 5 Stars
Very sad story. Hard to watch such a beautiful person with so many problems spiral downhill.
Movie Review: awesome movie
Summary: 5 Stars
ive seen this movie before which is why i bought it...it's awesome. Jolie did am amazing job.Movie Review: A Different Look at a Model
Summary: 4 Stars
Gia is about a punker masculine energy biker girl who was turned into one of the world's top models. It is an introspective of how she deals with the people in the business and her relationships with a few individuals that she is intimate with. She is herself through all her dealings with them. She seems to not be intimated at all by people who may exude power or fame. Her manner starts out and stays pretty needy throughout the film until the end where she seems to be able to be with herself more and feel comfortable with that. Her main relationships are with her on and off again girlfriend, her best male friend, her agent, and her mother. She gets drawn into drugs yet does not really show much of her dealings with the drug world. It just shows her breakdown of spirit and her eventual suspended state of neediness of people than how it transfered to drugs. Of course she is beautiful but her personality is not about that and you tend to focus on who she is. The story shows exercepts of her journal writing and she tended to want to learn who she was but didn't want to be with herself for long periods of times. She was dependent on her intimate others. They were all flattered and enchanted by her attention but they were unable to fufill her neediness and this always led to the inbalance of the relationship. Thus her need for drugs turned out to be the next source of addiction. The clothes and makeup were fun to watch and added to the glamour of Angelina Jolie. The ending is sober and we get to see the strength behind the vulnerable girl that develops in her last years of her life. The things that I liked, intimate relationships, late nite dinners, closeness, being able to be yourself around all people, the strength of spirit, the modeling, the creativeness of styles, the richness and freedom, and the healing.Movie Review: Tour de Force performance by Angelina Jolie, but movie itself has some flaws
Summary: 4 Stars
Personally, "Gia" is Angelina Jolie's best performance to date. Her raw emotional energy and her method acting provokes the audience to sympathize with Gia Carangi, a supermodel, who self destructs herself because of her difficult upbringing. Her mother left early in Gia's life and her mentor Wilhelmina Cooper dies during her modeling years thus leading to Gia's drug use and eventual death with AIDS, an unresearched disease during that time. Angelina becomes Gia, although the screenplay doesn't follow the real Gia Carangi's story accurately. Although this movie contains a briiliant performance by Angelina, the casting of Elizabeth Mitchell to play Linda was a bad casting choice. Her acting doesn't match up with Angelina and weakens the power of this film. Also, the editing is very incongruous and takes away from the film. During a bedroom scene with Gia and Linda, the editing repeats some scenes and is very choppy, distracting the scene altogether. Also, the use of black and white was without purpose and the consistent nude images of Angelina wasn't necessary as well. Although I understand the reason for Angelina being nude during the "fence photoshoot" (since this actually was a real photoshoot to Gia Carangi), does the audience really have to see Angelina walking out to the elevator naked or have a shower scene with Linda? Also, the mother daughter relationship between Gia and her mother is not developed fully as it should have been. Besides these flaws, Angelina does give an excellent performance, which is why this film still deserves 4 stars.Movie Review: A blueprint for self-destruction
Summary: 4 Stars
Before actress Angelina Jolie, there was supermodel Gia Carangi. And before Jolie nailed a supporting Oscar for "Girl Interrupted," she snared a Golden Globe for an utterly transfixing performance as the model Gia in this 1998 bio-pic. Directed by Michel Cristofer, "Gia" culls from corroborating resource material ("A Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia" by Stephen Fred, perhaps the definitive biographical work) to capture the Phialdephia-born Gia's skyrocket to fame - she went to Vogue covers just two years after graduating from high school - and as rapid a descent, the victim of a self-destructive psyche ravaged by an insecure childhood and ill preparation for stunning beauty and uninvited fame, wealth and power. Gia died in 1986 from complications of AIDS (from IV heroin use), and her self-fueled destruction might be called just another tale of beauty and fame gone tragic. But Jolie's craftsmanship salvages the film from that fate with a stunningly honest and ethical performance. So natural is Jolie in the role of Gia that it might be offensive to dismiss her acting prowess as "coming naturally." More to the point, Jolie's talent here is honest, and it is that honesty which makes Jolie unblinkingly compelling here. "Gia" manages to rise above other bio-pics of its type as a cautionary tale, and the caution may be that, for anyone privileged by sudden wealth, fame or anything else, there is a responsibility to that privilege. Failure to be humbled by that responsibility may bear a cost too high to survive.