Sunday, April 13

We saw Barry Levinson's Diner (1982) and Walter Hill's Geronimo: An American Legend (1993). The characters in the former weren't particularly sympathethic. I'm guessing that people who remembered 1959/60 nostalgically in 1982 partically liked it, but I'm too young for that. Although Geronimo made a stab at acknowledging the wrongs done to Indians, they insisted on telling the story from the point of view of a white man. Actually, I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but by trying to be all things to all people, I felt the movie failed to help me understand the narrator/protagonist, and at the same time, Wes Studi was badly underused.

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