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Cowboy Up (2001)
Wonderfully realistic characters
I liked this film VERY much for his music scores, his dramatic bull riding action shots and - most of all - for his real life characters and fine role play. This movie shows you a part of America and his people in a very special setting but with very common troubles. This kind of movie you can watch over and over again, it will ever be satisfying. The story is manifold, the moral of the tale is really something to think of (It took me several attempts to get it) The only issue that was not satisfying in my opinion was the outcome. Though I'm no friend of happy endings, this one was a bit too drastic in my sense. Nervertheless - great movie, great work!
A History of Violence (2005)
A piece of history in film making
Wow. This is definitely more than one could expect from 62 year old David Cronenberg! I sat in the theater and soon got involved into a kind of Tarantino-like action - only sort of different, more serious. The movie went on and soon the Tarantino quotations merged with manieric eye-catchers like Luc Besson likes to involve: Remarkable Persons and faces, crazy couture and accessories, things that catch your mind and eyes at the side of the action. Things of quietness you wouldn't expect from a Hollywood mainstream production. But this is only the show, the story itself is a classic tragedy form, pushed further in means of movie art. There has been Claude Chabrol and film noir, Tarantinos and Rodriguez' satiric latino action, Luc Bessons melancholic action dramas and now there is a new step: "A history of violence" marks the beginning of another refinement in expression. What you will see is good and bad, a man thrown in between who's at the mercy of fatality. Great and unique.