Men With Guns
by John Sayles
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Actor: Dami?n Alc?zar, Dami?n Delgado, Dan Rivera Gonz?lez, Federico Luppi, Tania CruzDirector: John Sayles
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 128 minutes
Release Date: 1998-08-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of Men With Guns
Movie Review: REQUIRED VIEWING
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the few films that everyone should be required to watch even if it means tying them to a chair and forcing their eyes open. No matter what I said about this film it would be inadequate to do it justice.Movie Review: Stunningly beautiful, sad, insightful.
Summary: 5 Stars
As the Peruvian's review indicates, there are certainly Latin Americans who don't want to face part of their political reality, just as there are US citizens who like to deny or rationalize the violence of the United States of North America. The "Indian Wars" of the US empire continue as this film on the oppression of Guatemalan Mayan Indians reveals. While President Clinton did offer a near-apology for our decades of funding and organizing Guatemala's dirty war that killed 200,000 people, our corporatocracy continues to exploit the region and to wage economic warfare via NAFTA, CAFTA and the World Bank.
"Men With Guns" beautifully shows all who care the sort of brutal madness that has been taking place in Central America. I've shared this film with Guatemalan immigrants I know, and they confirm the suffering they endured at the hands of our proxy forces. These US taxpayer funded troops wiped out Guatemalan villages in the same way the Nazis wiped out Russian villages. It's such a disgrace that it happened, and that so few Americans know about it. This film offers us a tool to raise awareness, and civic groups like Global Exchange and Madre offer us opportunities to act in solidarity with the victims of US foreign policy.
I'd also recommend books by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchu (who, predictably, had a Yale professor conduct a campaign to cast doubt on her credibility - a standard psy-op tactic of our military establishment) and the DVD documentary, "When the Mountains Tremble."
Also see "Guatemala: Never Again!", the official report of the human rights office of the archdiocese of Guatemala. Sadly, Bishop Juan Girardi was murdered a couple days after turning in that report.
Movie Review: Decepcionante.
Summary: 1 Stars
Entusiasmado por los comentarios previos decid? adquirir esta pel?cula.Que decepci?n.Lenta,aburrida con una adaptaci?n de gui?n a mi criterio mal estructurada.La direcci?n de actores,p?sima,pese a tener a Luppi y a Dami?n Alcazar que es el ?nico que se salva en su corta actuaci?n.
Pens? que tendr?a algo que ver con "La Ley de Herodes",extraordinaria pel?cula de Luis Estrada,pero absolutamente nada que ver.
Recomendable s?lo para tus enemigos.
Movie Review: Human Rights
Summary: 4 Stars
When a civl war rages through a country, the line between the good guys and the bad ones is blurred. Such is the case in Men with Guns. Both sides in conflict abuse others, even the innocent ones, to secure their goals.Movie Review: 100% Guatemala
Summary: 5 Stars
The basis of the movie was taken from a secondary character in Francisco Goldman's book "The Long Night of White Chickens", which is about Guatemala during the civil war, also the cover photo is the work of a Guatemalan photographer, Palma. Excellent movie.
Summary of Men With Guns
It is impossible to predict where John Sayles will travel at any given time in his film career, but Men with Guns is one of the director's most surprising journeys. Shot in Spanish, with a little-known cast, the film is a beguiling mix of the political and the mythical. A well-heeled doctor (Argentine actor Federico Luppi) in an unnamed Latin country leaves his comfortable home, in search of former medical students who may be caught in the political violence of the countryside. Although Sayles casts an unflinching eye on the issues of poverty and "willful ignorance" (embodied by the doctor, a well-meaning but complacent man), Men with Guns has a lush visual style and a great grab-bag of songs on the soundtrack. It's a slow and sometimes dreamlike movie, but by the time we reach the end it feels as though something special has transpired. --Robert HortonMexico Video
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