The End of Violence Review by B Movie Ben (4 Stars)

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Starring:
Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Andie MacDowell, Daniel Benzali, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Loren Dean, Nicole Parker, Enrique Castillo, K. Todd Freeman, John Diehl, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Peter Horton, Udo Kier, Marshall Bell, Frederic Forrest, Henry Silva, Samuel Fuller

Directed By:
Wim Wenders

Written By:
Nicholas Klein

The End of Violence (1997)

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Movie Review by B Movie Ben

June 19th, 2007

Opens slowly like a rose

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 on at once, and they are interconnected.

Bill Pullman (Independence Day, The Grudge) is a movie producer (Mike Max) who finds himself in a situation that allows him to change his life. It wasn't such a great life anyway. He was only married to Andie MacDowell (Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral). How can a man stand that! But his situation has been observed by a computer scientist that is working on a new tool of Big Brother to watch our every move. Like they don't have that now.

There were some very interesting characters floating through the story. This was Traci Lind's last movie (?). She was an actress who lost a job when Max's movie gets shut down, and she runs into him, and she connects with a cop who is pursuing her and working the case, and he connects with the computer geek and well, I said it was all interconnected while separate stories are going on.

It's Crash. It's Babel. It's both. It's neither. It's about life. It's about Big Brother. It's about relationships between the races. It's about Hollywood.

It's Wim Wenders, so it takes some effort, but it is worth it. It's not about sex and violence: it's about people.

Besides that it has Ry Cooder's music.

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