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Net Worth (2001)
Man it sucked
This one is way too trivial and not thought through. It is about these four people from different backgrounds that make a bet who can get the highest net worth after a month in an unfamiliar city (Salt Lake City)with an initial amount of a hundred dollars in their pockets. All the persons are way too stereotypical. The "hippie" spur of the moment type guy has had a hard upbringing, the seemingly wealthy hotshot stock broker is really up to his neck in debts, the sensible one takes the hard but right way, and so on... It's a movie for people who believe in the personality types that were built up for *NSync and similar bands are telling the truth about the members of the band....
Anyway, no matter what their differences between the movie characters are, it's still just a test of how good their friendhip is. Come on... Whoever said this is original is wrong. This is too predictable. And too slow. And too stereotypical.
Barbecue: A Love Story (1997)
white trash, barbecue, pleasures and pain of poverty.
This movie is certainly entertaining as much as it can be disturbing. It reflects the life of a trailer-park trash couple, and their everyday troubles with their marriage, the cumbersome handling of a mother addicted to gambling, a sleazy trailer-park owner and a miserable abusive wino ex-husband.
As a middle class person, it is sometimes difficult for me to understand the characters' behavioral patterns, but at the same time I can as easily be understand them by looking at the situation they find themselves in. The quirkiness in their personalities can be traced to the hopelessness that surrounds them.
The movie gives a good perspective of how small life can be, but how it is still the same fundamental issues that matter the most. To take the pain, you need the pleasure, and when life is poor, the pleasures are cheap. In this case, the ultimate pleasure is an all-you-can-eat barbecue, and happiness can be found in your immediate surroundings if you really look for it and try hard to find it. The movie is quite slow in its story telling pace, but that slow pace also contributes to the atmosphere.