Modestency Review of Tropico

Tropico (2013 Music Video)

A truthful review from an unprofessional person

[10/10 · 10 December 2013]

FIRST...If you don't like or understand Lana Del Rey then you won't like this short film or any previous or upcoming Lana's work. So the first part of TROPICO did sound a little silly to me at first view but in a second view i started to understand what was this film all about and i say that because although I'm a big fan of her but i didn't want to judge tropico as wonderful and etc..etc before i even see it like many fans do so this is what i really liked and didn't like about it: I liked the story "which i see" it was about two lucky humans(Adam&Eve)in love who lives in paradise but in a weaken moment they sin and lost it all to find themselves on earth where they start their journey back to but necessary the same paradise they left and in order to achieve that they had to sin again for the last time by prostituting and steeling.I also like that my favorite song "Bel Air" got some recognition at last What really makes this project profound and deep is the mind behind it..Del Rey's mind that wrote all the three songs this movie based on "and surly wrote the whole film" in a very deep and delicate way and that is proving more and more she isn't manufactured or a superficial artist but an educated singer with a great love for poetry and visual arts and a huge gift in writing lyrics and not to mention a great amount of beauty that makes her close to the heart(I don't know her personally but i guess it's true from all her music and interviews that i listened to). The one thing that i didn't like was the extensive focus on the girls bodies because in general it's very rare to find nudity that serves the concept without being offensive but hey it's the legend Lana Del Rey so i will let it pass. So this is it.. the end of Born to die chapter and what a great closer to a unique different music project. At the end i couldn't find more truthful and Justice say than the this one phrase from Slant Magazine's review "Del Rey doesn't position herself among the film's icons of Americana the way, say, Kanye West or Lady Gaga might. Instead, her work continues to serve as both a tribute to an imagined past and a critique of contemporary pop culture."