One of the most acclaimed and in my opinion one of the most hypocritical Italian movies of the recent past. Director Gabriele Muccino tries to speak about "having 30 years in Italy", but he lacks any real insight in understanding society and, I would say, in how to shoot a good movie. He shoots in a very traditional way, but he edits the movie giving it a furious pace. If at first it succeeds in catching the attention, soon it starts to bore. Actors are screaming for most of the movie - and, well, they do their job, but they are however little more than acceptable. But the real problem comes when we get down to the script. The story has been told a lot of times, and almost always in a better way. The moral of the movie (note: we are in the third millennium.) is "normality is the true revolution". thanks, Muccino, might I add that "life's a box of chocolates" or have you got better commonplaces that you want to *scream* about? You may well ask why this movie has had such a huge success in Italy. well, in my opinion that's because it is very conservative and - under a false façade - full of clichés. It speaks of the importance of the family in a very trite way, and people love to watch movies that let them not think at all. I might compare this movie with "Casomai", of director Alessandro D'Alatri. Where "Casomai" is a gentle story about young families in Italy, wonderfully written, well directed, and with a pair of intelligent twists, "The last Kiss" is poorly written, poorly directed, over-hyped and annoyingly screamed. and when you scream you generally have nothing to say.
Review of The Last Kiss
