This review is pretty detailed and spoilery. The movie is great, so consider just watching it and coming back. We begin in a snowy Yakuza fortress in Japan, where seventeen year old Agent 13 the incredible Aurora Ribero rises up out of an armor collection to decapitate a sleazy boss.
All he really has to do is come in wearing a tux and kill a couple guards to get up there. I enjoy improbable muscleman characters — Schwarzenegger playing scientists, etc. Time to stop wearing white shoes according to Serial Mom , and time to wrap up the summer retrospective according to me. I do want to note that Oliver Stone was one of the directors most associated with boomer self analysis — rightly or wrongly, his movies were a big part of the way people my age conceived of the Vietnam War, the JFK assassination, and of course The Doors.
But here in the summer of GUMP he was more interested in being contemporary, cutting edge, of-the-moment. His choice to recruit Trent Reznor to produce the soundtrack album proves that the movie is more Lollapalooza than Woodstock. They are stories about young people and the lessons they learn from older mentors. The Triad boss running the fights, Mr.
Big Hung , is also the guy you go to for fake IDs, and when Lok turns down a job offer from him he gets screwed on that. July 15, That one was about a young woman growing up in a fictional desert town, this one is a fictional portrait of young cholas in a real neighborhood of Los Angeles.
That must be crazy to see your neighborhood in a movie from that long ago. Even from 30 years ago is cool, though. I hope everybody had a good Big Mia Weekend this year! The prequel PEARL shot back-to-back and released in the same year is set in , with Goth playing young Pearl growing up and losing her shit in the same farmhouse. We would learn about this world along with him and then it would sort of become his story as he deals with the macho insecurities raised by trying to fit in with these guys.
