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The End of Violence (1997)
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If Wim Wenders falls prey to overambition in this sprawling story of identity, conscience, and voyeurism in modern Los Angeles, it pays off in a richness absent from so many of Hollywood's safe, sterile films. Bill Pullman is the ostensible hero, a Roger Corman-like producer abruptly kidnapped by a pair of dim thugs who prepare to kill him in the shadow of the L.A. freeway. Gabriel Byrne watches, powerless, from on high, a meek Big Brother wired up through surveillance cameras hidden throughout the city. When Pullman disappears into the faceless population of L.A., adopted by a family of Hispanic gardeners, he begins his own covert...
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The End of Violence Movie Review by B Movie Ben  (6/19/2007) |
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Wim Wenders(Buena Vista Social Club: Paris, Texas) is not for everyone. His films are slow and methodical. They do not hit you hard, but creep along unwinding in layers so that you can savor them like a fine single malt scotch.
This film came out before Crash, but it is still that same format. There are many stories going...
(complete The End of Violence review by B Movie Ben)
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