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The Blackout
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| Release Date: |
01 January, 1997 |
| Director: |
Abel Ferrara |
Staring: |
Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Béatrice Dalle, Sarah Lassez |
| Studio: |
Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| Rated: |
R (Restricted) |
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Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 4 out of 5
Ferrara one of the best American makers of foreign films
If you appreciate films by the likes of Antonioni, Lynch, Bunuel and Franju and you enjoy entering the inner worlds of characters then you’’ll probably find much to admire in this movie... it is unapolagetically dark, meandering, atmospheric, sometimes half baked, but ultimately haunting and utterly poignant. The DVD is bare bones with a decent transfer. Rated 5 out of 5!
A deep dive into human loss and desperation
This movie is mainly about a guy who gets trapped into drug and alcohol abuse but manages to escape it. Somehow, as in real life, the your history will never be erased and he is trapped again in tragic circumstances with his new wife, pregnancy, memory loss from his ’’wild days’’. This film will not give much to viewer which has not experienced heavy drinking or drug use. For those which has bad experiences or any experience at all, will have a wake-up call and hopefully watch this film in awe. The film can be watched in the same session as ’’Requiem for a dream’’, an uncredible film about drug abuse and the society that not only sells drugs ’’illegally’’ but also a society in which one can get heavy drugs prescribed and legally. Rated 1 out of 5
ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES- MAYBE THE WORST!
I rented this film not expecting too much because it looked sleazy on the video cover. What an understatement! There is nudity throughout especially with the scenes with Dennis Hopper, but this is not the kind of nudity I find attractive in the least with women degrading themselves and most of the scenes seems out of place and unnecessary (trust me on this). Well, I have sat through many a "bad movie" on HBO late at night and found the movie satisfactory because of certain actors I enjoy watching (Hopper comes to mind)or some type of interesting plot devices. Well, the actors are all shallow individuals and not worth the time to watch WITH THE EXCEPTION of Claudia Shiffer who is both beautiful AND a caring person (MY dream come true!), and what makes this picture deserving of LESS than 1 star is the character of Matthew Modine (the actor I like) who repeatedly fails to take control of his life EVEN WHEN HE HAS SOMEONE AS WONDERFUL AS CLAUDIA’’S character helping him! (...). Anyway, this movie depressed me for days and left me feeling sad and empty- don’’t say you weren’’t warned!
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