A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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A political drama about terrorism, revolution, and the power of memory. In an unnamed place and time, an idealistic soldier named Joe strikes up an illicit friendship with a political prisoner named Thorne, who eventually recruits him into a bloody coup d'etat. But in the post-revolutionary world, what Thorne asks of Joe leads the two men into bitter conflict, spiraling downward into madness until Joe's co-conspirators conclude that they must erase him from history. —Anonymous
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A noble effort
When I read the cast list for this film i thought "hey with these people it should be great!" well... it's not great, but it does do a good job at exposing the hypocrisy of power, and who is better suited to govern, a single person/regime or that amorphous element named "The People".
Donald Sutherland and Rafe(don't call me Ralph!) Fiennes, give wonderful acting performances, and there are many great supporting roles too. Including the lovely Lara Flynn Boyle, (watch for the scene with her in a skin tight latex dress playing kinky sex games with her husband!,it made the rental price, for me anyway, worth paying ! Woo Hoo!).
There is a lot of interesting and intelligent dialog through out the film too , the director/writer is obviously a literate man.
My problem, is that this film tries to hard to be too many things at once.
BTW, the poem that Sutherland's and Fiennes' characters quote is by William Butler Yeats and it's named "The Second Coming", and the haunting piano music you hear, you might remember is also used in "Barry Lyndon" and I believe is written by Mozart
It's definitely worth a rental though.
Donald Sutherland and Rafe(don't call me Ralph!) Fiennes, give wonderful acting performances, and there are many great supporting roles too. Including the lovely Lara Flynn Boyle, (watch for the scene with her in a skin tight latex dress playing kinky sex games with her husband!,it made the rental price, for me anyway, worth paying ! Woo Hoo!).
There is a lot of interesting and intelligent dialog through out the film too , the director/writer is obviously a literate man.
My problem, is that this film tries to hard to be too many things at once.
BTW, the poem that Sutherland's and Fiennes' characters quote is by William Butler Yeats and it's named "The Second Coming", and the haunting piano music you hear, you might remember is also used in "Barry Lyndon" and I believe is written by Mozart
It's definitely worth a rental though.
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- mrharper77
- Oct 15, 2006
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