Almost a masterpiece, and i'm not exaggerating.
This movie, reminiscent in some ways of traffic in matter of style and story lines crossing is in everything else original, truthful, sensitive, magic. Three characters have their lives changed, all part of the same story, but at the same time each living their lives independent from the others; a young man dreaming to get rich or die trying - whilst his mother tries to look over him -, a woman who feels like a failure to her mother and has to become a mother herself, and an old man who's missed most of his life in jail with his mother as his only support and who exits prison only to witness his mother dying.
The story is complex and well tied; the script and the dialog are truly excellent, reminding the viewer of Michael Mann in places, as for the image, it's captivating for sure; what's most, each story has an individual feeling to it, helped also by the truly masterful soundtrack; you could take any of the three stories and present it separately, but it's so much better when they're all together.
Thoroughly recommended!
This movie, reminiscent in some ways of traffic in matter of style and story lines crossing is in everything else original, truthful, sensitive, magic. Three characters have their lives changed, all part of the same story, but at the same time each living their lives independent from the others; a young man dreaming to get rich or die trying - whilst his mother tries to look over him -, a woman who feels like a failure to her mother and has to become a mother herself, and an old man who's missed most of his life in jail with his mother as his only support and who exits prison only to witness his mother dying.
The story is complex and well tied; the script and the dialog are truly excellent, reminding the viewer of Michael Mann in places, as for the image, it's captivating for sure; what's most, each story has an individual feeling to it, helped also by the truly masterful soundtrack; you could take any of the three stories and present it separately, but it's so much better when they're all together.
Thoroughly recommended!