Lions For Lambs (Widescreen Edition)
by Robert Redford
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Actor: Andrew Garfield, Meryl Streep, Michael Peņa, Robert Redford, Tom CruiseDirector: Robert Redford
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
Published: 2008-04-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of Lions For Lambs (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: This filmhas become a Prophecy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the strangest film we can imagine about the end of Dubya's war on terror, alas not the end of the war per se. It is all centered on Afghanistan but it is essentially conveyed in the paranoid fear of human beings. Like the Christian God, this story is based on three characters, three story tellers, three episodes that overlap and crisscross from one to the other constantly. On one side a university professor who was drafted into the Vietnam war and has not yet really understood what happened then. He has negotiated a hypocritical peace with life that makes him take his anger and frustration onto the students themselves in order to confront them to decision making at any time in their life as students when this life has become boring and senseless. They know it is not going to be better than their parent's though the latter have promised them it would. And anyway, and that is what these students have forgotten, it cannot be the same, let alone better because they are just starting in life and nothing in life is given ready made and ready to eat. You have to fight for it, like it or not, and that the dear professor has forgotten it in his own mind, even if the students have forgotten it in their real life. The professor makes the students fight but for the sake of it not for any commitment, even purely selfish. The professor does not do his job since he does not teach them how to start from zero, as life requires it for 95% of people, and then have an objective other than satisfying the wants, desires or phantasms of the professor. He is not even a signpost along the road that never follows the road it is indicating, but he is a signpost in the middle of the desert pointing in any erratic direction according to the moment and the professor's impulses. The journalist in a big newspaper is confronted with the necessity, or even the duty, to tell the public that everyone is lying to them and they believe them. But she runs out of steam to convince other people, out of steam to really corner the senator who receives her, out of steam to convince her own boss about that necessity instead of treating everything as news when it is only propaganda. She too is sort of out of phase and she will either yield or retire. She is incapable of doing her job for her boss who takes the assignment away, her job being to bring news to the public. But she is also incapable to do what she thinks her job is, that is to say bring people to reflecting and having a wider vision on things, a vision that could integrate the past into the future and vice versa, in other words be responsible and visionary. The senator is a young wolf who is ready to win the war whatever the cost it may take because that's what politicians need, a win. Instead of drawing the conclusion from the failure that the mistakes are too heavy for life to forgive and forget them and that politicians have to stop these mistakes, they want more war and they look for the person who is going to be able to carry the message to the people and make people swallow the hard medicine instead of changing it altogether. In that trilogy - or should I say trinity? - of lost grown-ups, the film shows a few young students and how they react to this fake life, and it is not at all encouraging. These students are lost. Whether they want to commit themselves and their life to the big battle against terrorism but they are betrayed by a bunch of incompetent officers and politicians who will announce their death as a victory. Or they want to stay out of it and enjoy life and that makes them drop-outs for one and flunkies for two. No hope there, hence a deep sense of despair. The dice have been cast and no one can decipher the message written among the dots and figures. Two years later what can we think about it? It will take a lot of energy - and hope - on the side of politicians to change their ways. It will take a lot of energy for the people to understand enjoying life cannot be the objective of life itself. It will take a lot of energy for the media to understand that their job is not to transmit the press releases of politicians but to educate and enlighten the public into thinking with their own heads. It will take a lot of energy, though I am afraid this battle is far from even having begun, for professors and teachers, educators and intellectuals to get down into the world and commit themselves to real life, which would mean more work and less ease for them, the poor darlings, my heart is bleeding for them. To defend their privileges, these professors and company are ready to break the life of their students as students and then as grown-ups and even as citizens, and they will argue that the students agree. There is always one rotten apple in a barrel of apples, as old seafarers well know.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
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