davidvliet

I thought this was a particularly well acted, well written script. The Spanish actors are all very seasoned, and really capture, from everything I can tell the essence of the real people who were involved in the situation.

Particularly the mother who plays Rosario, who does a remarkable job in portraying a confused, drama laden, scatterbrained, somewhat mentally unstable, overwrought, calculated, possible killer. Superb acting.

I think the way the story was laid out, woven together, was very effective. It's also an excellent view into the Spanish judicial system. We Americans often think our approach to justice in these cases, as much different than in Europe, so it's interesting to see their similarities.

I don't watch anything below 7.0, and gave this a 8.0 with the hopes it'll elevate the rating because I think this was very well crafted and solid piece that's won't waste your time.

This was a remarkable piece, beautifully done and I rank it among the best modern westerns issued of late (which includes "Godless").

Visually stunning, and stocked with top tier actors, it makes you hunger for more quality historically-rooted westerns. It's my understanding the executive producers (Blunt) went to great lengths to receive approval from the Pawnee tribe who authenticated the historicity of the Pawnee experience and to me this gives the series greater credibility. It's also shocking. We're reminded that the genocide and racism toward Native American people was unrelenting and psychopathic.

There's a love story here that's beautiful and simple as it's born of mutual respect and shared experience, somehow in the Great (and Dangerous) Plains where real trouble and lawlessness was easily found (or sought you out).

I'm glad I found this stark often cruel story, a tale of the wild inhumane west, with all of natures forces and man's depravity, colliding so terribly.

A gorgeous, complicated, and very nuanced story told the right way. The movie traverses through new Pinocchio territory which includes overt ridicule parody of fascism, likely the whole point of the original story evidently as Hitler and Mussolini did their mutual admiration and allegiance dance together when this allegory was penned. Pinocchio does a delightful number mocking the wee Italian dictator.

I need to go back and rewatch the film after I understand a little more about Italy and what the social commentary of the time was saying about El Duche.

There's that and there's the remaining wide variety of topics that are highlighted in the film, the uneasiness of war, loss, pain, hope, searching for that which we love. And of course redemption.

We often think of Pinocchio as a carefree boy, naive and an easy mark and kind of a bad boy. Del Toro goes further than that and helps us love Pinocchio for the newly sentient creature he was created to be (by fairies), his purity of love for his father, and (in the interest of time) his desire to be real. And to be loved.

I think this finally is the definitive version of this story and, long overdue and relevant during a time in which we promised not to forgot and to "assure never more".

Ps: beautiful score: "Ciao Papa" is an eye.