Arizona Dream (1993) - Movie Review
Just completed
Arizona Dream by the famous Serbian director
Emil Kosturica. The movie is starring
Johny Depp an movie
actor I'm not too big fan of.
The movie's plot is too cracky. It all starts and ends with scenes
of some Eskimos, where it progresses and depicts later on an
ordinary life of an american fisher.
As movie progresses parts of the life of a successful car sells man
comes in place. Axel (Johny Depp) is the main actor. The movie
revolves around the sexist element.
Some of the scenes and movie delopment looks quite unexpected. Axel
starts living in a place with two beautiful woman (a mother in law
and a daguther in law).
The mother in law is famous for her passion to attract and sleep
with new young man. Axel fells in love and together they follow a
dream of building an airplane which is supposed to be used later on
as a mean to kill themselves together and according to Eskimos
belief bind together their souls for eternity.
The spiritual concepts of the movie are completely messed up and
clearly the movie contains references to multitude of
anti-christian ideas.
The movie is generally a bit depressing as the atmosphere one can
feel is a jail like. Initially Axel fells in love with the mother
in law Ellaine, later on near the movie denouement, he losts his
passion for Ellain which is a bit older for his age and fells in
love with Grace (which is a way younger and even more
attractive).
Grace has a severe problems with feeling of unvalueness and suffers
with chronic depression and thus things constantly to kill her
self.
Near the end of the movie Axel explains himself in love with Grace
(which seems to also be in love with him).
However the ending scenes are too sad as Grace decides finally to
kill herself and commits suicide with a gun ...
Honestly I expected a way more from the movie and I wouldn't
recommend it as a piece of classics or a movie with some
significant value.
The rest of the movies directed by
Emil Kosturica seems to
be a far more superior and positive than this one.
If you want to save yourself from some insanity just stay away from
this cranky movie!