Far from a great movie, but definitely an education. Sometimes I think that I have lived so long in this age of mass visual communication that my experience of, thankfully remote, horrors is endless. The depressing adult world depicted here is a generation away and my memory contains only occasional headlines. This despite "Beirut" having entered into common parlance as a metaphor for the dereliction and deprivation often evident in our poorer and less socially minded council estates. Ziad Doueiri's film cleverly interweaves the facts with the emotions of ordinary people and the result deserves a round of applause if not a standing ovation.
Film review over. Technology review. Did I ever in my wildest dreams of the mid-seventies imagine that I would share such a global platform as this with the likes of many of the commenters below me? For them this movie must be all too real. Nice one guys. Rave on Internet. Rave on IMDB.
Ron
Film review over. Technology review. Did I ever in my wildest dreams of the mid-seventies imagine that I would share such a global platform as this with the likes of many of the commenters below me? For them this movie must be all too real. Nice one guys. Rave on Internet. Rave on IMDB.
Ron