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Movie Reviews of Skins
Movie Review: great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Movie if you want more than the typical Hollywood movie fare.
Watch the movie, then read the book.
Movie Review: What can I say?
Summary: 5 Stars
GREAT MOVIE! I have YET to see a movie with Graham Greene that WASN'T a fantastic film!Movie Review: Skins will keep your attention!
Summary: 5 Stars
Is a terrific and well produced movie with great actors in it!Movie Review: A very revealing film
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently saw this film and must say that it has become one of my all-time favorite movies, solely for the realisitic portrayal it gives of today's reservations.Contrary to the report given by an earlier reviewer, Pine Ridge is in SOUTH Dakota, not North. I grew up in South Dakota nearly all my life, and I taught at an Indian school. I saw, sometimes first hand, what the reservation life entailed, and it was depressing. This movie does a good job of encompassing one of the reservation's most prevalent threats at this time: alcoholism.
I've been a fan of Graham Greene ever since Dances With Wolves, although I don't consider that movie a stellar example of historically accurate film making.
For the past few years, I've read about the debate regarding the liquor stores in White Clay, NE. Although I realize that those people may be making a tidy profit off the Indians in Pine Ridge, people must realize that alcoholics will drive ANY distance to get their booze -- White Clay and further. You cannot blame the store owners for providing the booze. You're blaming the wrong people.
For those who don't see the significance of the bear trap scene: I think it is a statement about the current climate of the reservations, the way native people turn against each other in today's depressing reservations. The alcoholism has brought in crime and distrust among the people of the reservations, and it's startling to see the decline.
I gave this film 4 out of 5 stars only because I found the scenes with the main character (Eric Schweig) having an affair as distracting and not relevant. It seems to me as if there should have been more to that story, but there wasn't.
All in all, I would highly recommend this story to anyone interested in Native American history, or in the history of the United States in general.
Movie Review: Chris Eyre: SKINS (We have a winner!!!!)
Summary: 4 Stars
Skins is powerful.... Graham Greene is wonderful. Skins is a story not only of the disintegration and degredation of a once powerful people, but a story of two brothers rocky relationship with each other. Mogie, (Graham Greene) is the stereotypical "drunk indian" portrayed PERFECTLY by Greene. Graham... you are Oscar worthy for this one! Eric Schweig plays his straight edged, save the rez-from itself, policeman brother (Rudy),that is disgusted by what his brother has become- not to mention the monotonous domestic violence calls he gets due to drug abuse and alcoholism on the reservation. Chris Eyre has intecritly drawn it together to make sense to all people. I saw Smoke Signals, and I can definately tell that Eyre has matured in his directing ability. I dont think Smoke Signals was half the movie of Skins.
There was some less than perfect camera angles and the end was a little abrupt. Its almost like Eyre lost his focus a few times- in other words, storys would just stop when they got started. (like the murdered man in the beartrap... I expected to hear more about that??) I think I understand why he did that though, he was trying to show bits and pieces of all the tragedies of reservation life to give Rudy a reason to go on his vigilante rampage, at least thats what I think. Possibly, he wanted to show such a variety of unlawfullness that Rudy was turned into something of a reservation superhero, only to backfire when he almost kills his brother in one of his escapades.
All in all, this movie was touching in one aspect, rough in another, funny in bits and pieces, moving all the way through, and most importantly... real. Keep up the good work Chris!