Miracle at St Anna (Widescreen Edition)
by Spike Lee
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Actor: Miracle at St. AnnaDirector: Spike Lee
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 160 minutes
Published: 2009-02-01
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: TOUCHSTONE / DISNEY
Product features:
- From Touchstone Pictures and A Spike Lee Joint comes the powerful and uplifting World War II epic MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee (THE INSIDE MAN). Stationed in Tuscany, Italy, four members of the U.S. Army's all-black 92nd Infantry Division, the Buffalo Soldiers, are trapped behind enemy lines after one of them risks his life to save a traumatized Italian boy. Separ
Movie Reviews of Miracle at St Anna (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: A Capolavoro (Masterpiece)
Summary: 5 Stars
This picture has many excellent things to say.
* Some have criticized the movie as too long. But if one looks beneath the superficial, one will see that fine art cannot be defined by a time frame.
* The movie deals with the idea that war dehumanizes; that it turns morality on its head. It portrays all people as pawns, as victims who wish the war would end.
* It shows an Afro-American (Train) who "never even touched a dead one (Caucasian) in his life" showing such touching concern for an orphaned boy (who represents pure innocence).
* It shows places in our own country (in this case a restaurant in Louisiana) where some people were considered as something less than human, something I might add was a central tenet of Nazi philosophy.
* It shows how people can be so overwhelmed in such situations that the question, "What is the purpose of all this; of life in general?" is answered in many forms, be they religious, social, or philosophical.
* Some criticize the movie as unrealistic but art often deals with situations where characters and places represent not just themselves but similar types of peoples and places. Let's not forget it's the larger themes of a movie that are its crux, not whether it is realistic.
One can see the boy, Angelo, (which translates to Angel) as the linchpin in the plot. The child actor was superb. We see him first as a child who is living in his own world because of the horrible things that will come to the front later in the movie. Toward the end of the movie we see a worn-torn Angelo who by a miracle returns to life and sees his dead friend Arturo, who has come to take Angelo to his father's home. Arturo tells Angelo that he must remember all of what he has seen as it was their time to be children - Angelo's friend `gigante di chocolata' is dead, the German soldier who saved and befriended Angelo also dead, the massacre of his friends and relatives in Sant'Anna di Stazzema, his short life with them is now but a horrible memory. Yet we see the nobility of the soldiers who gave their lives protecting the simple people of the town when these soldiers could have just left. It's at times like these that propaganda and clichés take a back seat to humanity. It's at times like these the best and the worst are brought out in people. This is what Angelo would learn and remember and he would choose to use what he remembered to make positive contributions.
This is a movie written and made for the intelligent. Loved it!
Summary of Miracle at St Anna (Widescreen Edition)
Synopsis: 0Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 02/10/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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