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Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 25th, 2007
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Begrudgingly is the word of the night
I don't know when it was that I started being supremely annoyed with Kirsten Dunst. Perhaps it was sometime around the time that I figured out she'd starred in three times as many movies as there were numbers in her age. If you're working that much and still being given top tier credit, something is amiss. People just can't pump out that much and have all of it be considered quality.
Yet - *sigh* - I like her in this movie. She's a rich girl who is a dirty, freaky slut. She hangs out with the wrong crowd in a pathetic attempt to gain more attention from her family, then when she gets that attention, she goes ballistic over the nature of it. You start to realize that she's sincerely f*cked in the head right about the time that she's really starting to grow on the good Hispanic boy that she's sunk her claws into.
Jay Hernandez is now better known for being in that tripe HOSTEL, but he got his start here. The thing I like best about it is the fact that the character is not just another gang banger. He's a hard working student gearing up for attending school and looking to become a pilot. He's the one with the good future here, not the white girl. It's a nice change of pace.
I like that the director allowed for the movie to get dark and be a little ugly. Too many stories of teen love have a fine gloss over them, giving their final result too polished of a finish. This movie chooses to not take that route, and while it finished a little too positively for my tastes, manages to come to a conclusion which isn't filled to the brim with too much sweetener.
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 | Lisa
Jan 26, 2007 10:06 AM
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| I think Kirsten Dunst played the sluty f*cked up rich girl extremly well in film and kinda redeemed herself for whole "Bring it on" debacle. |
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