While watching the most recent film from Luc Besson, THE FAMILY, I felt like I was eating a burger, tasteful and juicy at parts, but a bunch of plastic food in the end
In fact this metaphor seems perfect to me to explain this movie because it really is tasteful, when it has some good funny moments, with nice black humor; but on the other hand it's so "artificially" made and full of clichés that it really seems like American fast food! Not to mention the amount of "wooh! How could it happen this way??" scenes! One that really called my attention was that one when a little scholar newspaper of a small town in France goes right in the hands of the mafia's leader who was in jail in New York OK I know that a few centuries ago some people used to send a message inside a bottle into the ocean but
I also know it's just a movie and more than that it's a black comedy but enough is enough
Besides it has a lot of "artificial" scenes often used in Hollywood cinema.
So, to sum up, the burger was tasteful with some nice funny moments and a great cast (we don't use to see Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones together in a movie every day!...), but in the end it was just plastic and "artificial" cinema like fast food!
In fact this metaphor seems perfect to me to explain this movie because it really is tasteful, when it has some good funny moments, with nice black humor; but on the other hand it's so "artificially" made and full of clichés that it really seems like American fast food! Not to mention the amount of "wooh! How could it happen this way??" scenes! One that really called my attention was that one when a little scholar newspaper of a small town in France goes right in the hands of the mafia's leader who was in jail in New York OK I know that a few centuries ago some people used to send a message inside a bottle into the ocean but
I also know it's just a movie and more than that it's a black comedy but enough is enough
Besides it has a lot of "artificial" scenes often used in Hollywood cinema.
So, to sum up, the burger was tasteful with some nice funny moments and a great cast (we don't use to see Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones together in a movie every day!...), but in the end it was just plastic and "artificial" cinema like fast food!