Movie & TV Reviews And Ratings For Grownups

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Friday, August 12, 2016

Foreign Movie Review: THE DANISH GIRL (2015) A

I rated this movie A not because it was entertaining but because it dealt with an issue that has been taboo and controversial up until recent years. A person that has to deal with the issue of being transgender. That is, being of one sex but feeling that you belong to the other sex. If the subject matter offends you . . . don't see it.

It's a story that takes place in the late 1920's about one of the first people to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. Unfortunately, I didn't feel empathy for the people. Somehow it was produced in a way that you made you feel that you were watching from the outside. It missed the mark.

As another critic said, "the film merely impresses when it should move. Why? Hard to say. Set in the world of artists, too often it works more like a painting than a film, with beautiful images attracting us to what is, ultimately on closer inspection, a flat surface."

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Warren is retired and lives in Florida where he runs a foreign movie program for adults. He subscribes to NETFLIX and uses Rotten Tomatoes as one of the sources for selecting movies to review.

Started watching movies at about eight years old and was strongly influenced by "Fantasia" for it's combination of music and fantasy. He was profoundly impacted in his early teen years by the social content in "I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG".

As a kid he used to enter the movie house in the middle of a double feature and leave when the movie reached the part where he came in. Loved serials and was able to see most double features for ten or twenty-five cents.

A graduate of Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY), he strongly believes that good movies . . . with mature content . . . are a significant supplement to education and insight into the world around us. No egghead, he also believes that "It's A Wonderful Life", "Young Frankenstein", "The Producers", West Side Story", and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" are great films.

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Friday, August 12, 2016

Foreign Movie Review: THE DANISH GIRL (2015) A

It's a story that takes place in the late 1920's about one of the first people to undergo sex-reassignment surgery. Unfortunately, I didn't feel empathy for the people. Somehow it was produced in a way that you made you feel that you were watching from the outside. It missed the mark.

As another critic said, "the film merely impresses when it should move. Why? Hard to say. Set in the world of artists, too often it works more like a painting than a film, with beautiful images attracting us to what is, ultimately on closer inspection, a flat surface."

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