This Movie...
This film should be in the TSPDT top 1000 films of all time, and the IMDb top 250 also. Why in heavens name isn`t it?
shareI believe that great films like the Pawnbroker, dealing with the Holocaust and ugly things like racism, sexual violence, miscegination and other abborhent acts, have a hard time making a huge impact on modern viewers.. It seems that Dark Knight, and other silly comic book flics, are much more revered. When I ask someone why they go to a "blockbuster" movie, instead of a film, it is always the same answer... "I don't want to think"... So, it will almost always be a one in ten proposition.. I go to films(though not really-as I refuse to sit in theaters with people talking to the screen, or using cell-phones, as an example) to see great actors, performing with wonderful scripts, advancing the art and culture of the World we live in. But alas, that is not what "Joe Blow" wants to see.. And what is worse, Joe Blow now has dumbed down to where Heath Ledger, in a mediocre film, gets nominated for an Academy Award. Pawnbroker is in a long line of great to medium great films made in the sixties and seventies.. We have not come close to this again.. One in every 100 films now, makes a small impact.. Imagine putting Titanic up against a small budget, but wonderful film in that era???? Not a chance.. Bucks is what it's all about now.. I could make twenty films for ten million dollars now, that is spent on two films with people like Jennifer Anniston, Ben Affleck, J-lo, Vince Vaughn, and so many others... When the decison is made to make crap... Then crap is what you eat. There is an old Portuguese saying: 'when the rich put a value on crap, the poor will be born without *beep* Bend that a little and you end up with cinema today.. Rod Steiger, and all the rest in that cast, put almost all actors in the cold. When will the audience stand up and say,"I am fed up, I have had enough, and I won't take it anymore"????? Tony
shareIt is ridiculous, in general, that this film doesn't deserve the recognition it said. Besides what our very angry "mythman" friend said, there was a Holocaust class in the English department last year and this movie wasn't even on the list! In my opinion, this is the greatest movie that shows the effects of the Holocaust.
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