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The 6th Day (2000)
I liked it better the first time when it was called total recall
I think that if this movie is approached from the perspective that there might be some 'higher meaning' or 'social commentary' to be found within the viewer is going to be disappointed. With that said, No one should go to an Arnold movie looking for much more than action, it is what he does. While this movie clearly has an agenda, to make a statement about the 'dangers' of human cloning, it never really takes the issue seriously enough, and obviously looked for the right answers by polling focus groups (the obvious rebuke of science for not thinking ethically and 'morally' about what scientists choose to research, such a popular stance lately). Taken for what it was supposed to be, an hour and a half of fun wrapped around something sort of interesting to think about, it is a first rate movie.
Demasiado amor (2001)
too much love
This is a truely tragic film about a very innocent woman's struggle to come to terms with her own sexualty. I expected less than this movie delivered. Ready for something along the lines of Sexo Pudor y Lagrimas, this movie surprised me. Demasiado Amor is very much a European styled movie shot in Mexico. There is no Hollywood ending, the storyline rarely breaks into cliche, and the journey is compelling keeping what could easily have been a rather dull film entertaining. Rather, what this film delivers is a movie about deep inner conflict and emotion that, like what happens to most of us, ends up being messy and problematic. In addition, it ends without the viewer feeling patronized by a director who needs to make one feel good in the end.