jackrabbit1969 Reviews

When Night Is Falling (1995)

excellent cinema

[9/10 · 5 September 2006]

Excellent cinema... It's like a metaphorical exploration of what can happen when you least expect it and most need it. Camille finds this love and it's like finding money you've thought was lost; you rediscover yourself. Nothing is more precious than finding that you are every wonderful thing you always hoped you were. Petra is a gorgeous, unreal, ephemeral being that transcends physical knowing, she is pleasure and self confidence, notice how she balances herself in the air? She is the temptress that seeks to reinforce the new knowledge of self. There is no sin, here, and to suppose such a thing is silly. The Christian context serves to conflict the message ( how telling, Christianity is apparently more at odds with God than atheism/paganism)that nothing is wrong with love.

To the other post-makers: please be kind to each other.

Ganja & Hess (1973)

Better than the average blaxploitation flick

[7/10 · 3 January 2006]

Ganja and Hess doesn't surpass any cinematic niveaux or reinvent the art form but it is far above the standard fare afro Americans have had to tolerate as representative cinema. Something about it is just charming enough to recommend it; it is quirky and pensive but paces itself so deliberately it might well be delivered in episodes. It is a historical artifact, you will notice a multitude of 70s markers. The vampirism is not campy, the dialogue while perhaps inexpertly delivered, is not cliché or stereotyped and the cast looks good. It takes patience, nonetheless to watch and more than a little intelligence to decipher its subtexts.