Thursday, November 24, 2005


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ANGEL
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I'm spending my holiday at home in the
peace-and-quiet-heaven
of solitude. I watched the movie "Angel Eyes", the visual essence of which, was no doubt inspired by Traffic, which had arrived one year earlier. I thought it was really well-done. Caviesie is a creepy guy. He could be anything........a criminal, an islamo terrorist, a creature from another planet. I saw him in a real-life interview once, and felt that he had a feverish, almost borderline-psychotic quality. But that was just after he'd done Jesus, so perhaps that role had not yet had enough time to exit his psyche.

I really like Jennifer Lopez, but Hollywood seems to have purposely destroyed her innate kindness, her loving qualities, and her natural affection for men. Because in this movie, she'd been transformed into the archetypical American bitch who had once lived with an abusive father (naturally) and a victim-mother (naturally) and so she hated all men (naturally) and got to regularly beat them up in her capacity as a violent police officer (naturally).

Lopez and Caviesie could have been a perfect pair, if it hadn't been for the totally ill-conceived, constant level of anger her character had been instructed to express. I felt myself wishing that she'd refused to play the role like that. Because her unprovoked rage prevented what could have been a wonderful movie, from reaching that apex.
It was still pretty good, however.
And nicely spaced.

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