City of Joy | Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins

City of Joy | Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins | simply a beautiful film

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City of Joy

	City of Joy Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins TriStar Pictures, 1994 average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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Best of the Best

I am a movie fanatic and this is in my opinion the best film that I have watched ever. It is extremely moving and passionate. I cried three or four different times during this movie. I have been looking to acquire this movie in the past and it is the first time that I find it. It is a good way to see some aspects of India, at least through a window because nothing in life can prepare you to be in India. The drama ocurrs around an Indian family in Calcutta and an american doctor who volunteers to work in a poor neighbourhood. He becomes so involved with the family that...well, you should see the rest by yourself if your are not already a fanatic of this movie. I could say many more things but I will leave it brief and not boring.

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simply a beautiful film

The nature of ''the greatest democracy in the world'' exposed(By the way, did you know that India has its fair share in the remaining 27 million men,women and children that still, 150 years after the first publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', live in slavery?).Every two seconds a child dies from hunger, that's about 35000 kids a day(!), and the death toll during one year is several times greater than the number of Auschwitz victims during the whole of World War II!6000 people die every day from thirst or diseases connected to inadequate drinking water supplies.Even for those who aren't familiar with that, this film is a ''call to action''.To those petty little people who might mock its humaneness, I can say that only at sick times like these are must we feel embarrased for being ''over-sentimental''.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,who actualy considered himself an authentic(i.e. anti-authoritarian and truly revolutionary in his approach to power and material wealth,unlike so many others)socialist(as well as were also,even though this is always conceiled, M.L.King,Jean Paul Sartre,Federico Garcia Lorca,Albert Camus, and a ''foreign-born agitator'',as one congressman depicted him in a call for his expulsion from the US - Albert Einstein, along with countless others), had another vision for India.The film pays a tribute to this humanistic vision of direct,consistent democracy and human solidarity.It is precisely the continuous dealienation and ''Revolution of Hope''(as goes the title of a wonderful book written by Erich Fromm)that takes place among the lowly of Calcutta.

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Real India

Most movies, even the ones from Bollywood gloss over the reality of the poverty, dirtiness etc. This movie is true to the life and culture of the people. The characters are well fleshed out; they seem real and you care about them. Unless you've been to India you might not believe that people can be so poor and not be miserable. This movie shows how everyone can find joy in life, where they are, with what they have. Excellent movie.

Touched by City of Joy

"Feel good movie" doesn't quite describe City of Joy. Many parts were difficult to watch because of the poverty and ocassional brutality. But it is in my opinion that this is a great movie, both for its story line and character development. The dialogue was exquisite at times, especially that little leper fellow, and the characters were always believeable. Though the ending for the doctor was predictible, nothing else in the story was.
A movie worth watching at least twice.

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Educational

The beginning was kind of slow, and the movie didn't really seem to have anywhere to go, but if you stuck to it, and watched, it developed into this intricate plot. The western and eastern clash of paradigms was very incredible, and when they finally merged and succeeded and overcoming the obstacles it was intense. This movie adressed real issues in India today, and discussed the different views that we have from theirs. And Patrick Swayze is always good eye-candy :)

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