Friday, 7 October 2011

DVD review: True romance


A seemingly normal guy falls in love with a prostitute. Together they battle the mob.

My Tarantino related quest wasn’t really finished with Jackie Brown. I had completed everything that he directed but not everything that he has written. See after Reservoir Dogs but before Pulp Fiction he sold this screenplay to Tony Scott, brother of the more famous Ridley.
This is an excellent movie, first of all because it’s really original. It goes in a lot of unexpected directions and is such a powerful experience that it had us on the edge of the couch wondering what would happen next all the time. A lot of things, like a couple of random Val Kilmer Elvis apparitions are left unexplained but I don’t complain, the main plot threads are tied nicely and explaining the oddities would have probably made them banal.
With all his originality at his heart this is Tarantino wet dream. The protagonist is a film buff and comic book guy who meet a gorgeous girl and start living an hard boiled version of his own life. I’m not saying that this is bad per se, only pointing what this is all about.
The supporting cast his incredible, Gary Oldman and Cristopher Walken in the same movie? Playing two different bad guys? You don’t really need anything else to create a must see experience.

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