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Amazon.com:
John Boorman's 1985 South American epic never quite gets all of its gears working simultaneously, but it remains an often startling work with an extraordinary performance by the director's own son, Charley Boorman. Powers Boothe plays an American engineer working on a dam project in Brazil. When his young son is seemingly absorbed one day into the dense perils and beauty of the Amazon rain forest, Boothe's character goes on a protracted, 10-year search for him. In the interim, Boorman puts his full storytelling powers to work by characteristically exploring the arcane rhythms and dangers of an indigenous world hidden from ordinary view. Specifically, Boorman leads us into the life of a forest tribe who have assimilated the missing child and who will ultimately send him back with the opposite of his father's pro-development sensibility. The movie is gorgeous to behold, and it's great fun watching Boorman find ever-novel ways of making the same film again and again. But the environmental message and the emotion of the core relationship get in each other's way a bit, preventing the film from uniting on every front. Still, this is a must for Boorman fans. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Useful in the search of indigenous identity
I've shown this film over and over to indigenous groups in Panama, as it conveys extremely well how the spiritual world of american indians is unknown to western-eurocentric cultures, and taught as "savage" or "un-civilized" to indians who end up convinced that their culture has no value. In a world where indians behold some of the keys to the planet's las chance of survival, this film is a good way to restore indigenous culture's place of honor.
Rating: - One of My All-Time Favorites!
I have loved this movie since it came out. I have yet to order the DVD, but will soon. I have trouble with anyone not seeing the value in this film. Yes, you have to suspend disbelief in order to "get" it. But it is a spectacularly beautiful movie with great acting and many messages for the human soul, including that we are so much more than our technology. I have never tired of watching it in all these years, and doubt that I will in the future. If you have a heart, love nature and believe ... Read More
Rating:  - Really, really bad
I am astonished at the good reviews this movie received. Not only was this movie unrealistic, but the acting was terrible and the script was awful. I would put it on my list of worst movies ever. I have enjoyed other movies with Powers Boothe, but this was a real stinker.
Rating: - ELLOS AUN SABEN LO QUE NOSOTROS YA OLVIDAMOS...
Un mundo en donde se valora la naturaleza, se respeta la fauna, se cuida la flora, donde el hombre sabe que es parte de un equilibrio natural, su mayor tesoro al cual venera, ama y protege a toda costa...eso es lo que nos enseña la "Gente Invisible", indigenas que viven en la selva misma de Brasil; por otro lado, nosotros, los "Hombres Termita", supuestamente civilizados, dedicandonos a destruir SU MUNDO...NUESTRO MUNDO, tan empecinados en la tecnologia que no nos importa destruir el medio ambiente ... Read More
Rating: - Much on life
Taken literally or metaphorically, this is a very beautiful, moving and inspirational film with so many lessons on life.
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