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Movie Reviews of Proposition
Movie Review: Brutal but lyrical
Summary: 4 Stars
Bleak, brutal and yet strangely lyrical... a bit like Cave's own music. It looks great, the score is mean and moody, and it's got a huge emotional impact. Ray Winstone is as solid and steady as ever, and Guy Pearce adds the bearded cowboy to his CV.
Not for the squeamish, but I loved it, and would heartily recommend it to any Sergio Leone fans.
Movie Review: Save your MONEY!
Summary: 1 Stars
Who could have been so stupid as to think
anyone might make it even half way through
this waste of film?
Movie Review: slow, pretentious, boring and what's the purpose of this movie?
Summary: 2 Stars
so the proposition was to kill your brother to save another brother? what's the logic here? since the australian movie makers tried to imitate hollywood's western movies, every one come out of there was weird, and this one is no particular to the others, they never got over with the 'mad max' formula, crazy, bloody, gross, filthy, pointless and pretentious. this proposition sucks big time! 'two thombs up"? give me a break.Movie Review: Oscar Worthy
Summary: 5 Stars
From the opening gunfight, The Proposition puts us in the middle of a drama where there are no heroes, just different degrees of villian. This is not Butch and Sundance with the lovable "bad guys", this is a very visceral, very violent, very beautiful movie with characters that use there own internal justifications to give them the right to commit this violence. This is a story set in a time and place where the value of an ideal, whether it be family or a better world, is more valuable than life. So how can a movie that seems to have no one to root for be a great movie let alone, watchable? The answer is hard to find, but if you give it a chance, you cannot turn your eyes from the screen and the people on it. Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce and Danny Huston are dead on in their roles. Winstone's Captain Stanley is a man that finds solace in his home and the different world that it represents to him. His flaw is that he has given himself the impossible task of trying to make the land and people in his new country fit his ideal, and he is willing to go to almost any length to get there. This leads to the proposition that he gives to Charlie Burns(Guy Pearce)to choose one brother over the other, Arthur, the psychotic older brother played by Danny Huston or Mikey, the dim-witted younger brother. Given this you as a viewer can know that there can be no happy ending. No one can win. But what you can know is that the story getting there is intelligent, and superbly crafted. I will be very surpised if I do not hear Ray Winstone's name at oscar time. Guy Pearce and Danny Huston could just as easily get oscar nods as well. This is more than just a great movie in the western genre, this is a great movie in any genre.Movie Review: I never knew that there were so many flies in Australia.
Summary: 2 Stars
I never knew that there were so many flies in Australia. THE PROPOSITION has a cast of millions, all of them insects. There isn't a scene where we don't see or hear a bevy of buzzing bugs. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get used to seeing Guy Pearce or Emily Watson acting completely nonchalant as a fly crawled around on their lips.
While John Hillcoat's film is about racism, fraternity, and justice, I found the flies more interesting. THE PROPOSITION is something of an Outback Horse Opera and plays like a good first act of a grand Spaghetti Western. Yet, first acts are typically a half hour long at most, not 114 minutes! In other words, the film started out just as it was ending, and it took far too long to get there. Everything should have been paired down into twenty-some minutes.
The plot of one brother (Guy Pearce as Charley Burns) sent to kill his mad dog (yet oddly philosophical) older brother (Danny Huston as Arthur Burns) to ensure that their youngest babe in the woods brother (Richard Wilson as Mikey Burns) will not be hanged on Christmas Day was stretched painfully thin. Even the subplot of lawman Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) trying to maintain law and order in a "savage land" as he's sandwiched between ignorant bureaucracy, brutality, and an imported sense of British Propriety is tenuous at best.
One of the largest problems with his "looks great, less filling" film stems from our inability to sympathize with Guy Pearce as our foil. He invites sympathy but acts like a somnambulist, simply traveling from one locale to another. Even when he's run through with a spear, he appears nonplussed.
Written and scored by Nick Cave, the music in the film adds to some of the tedium. We hear the same ten-note refrain repeated throughout the movie. There's one noisy bit on the soundtrack that works well and seems to signal that the film's finally getting into gear but, alas, it ends before it begins too.
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