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Cassandra's Dream
Though there is something terribly paranoid about the tone of Woody Allen films, this managed to catch my eye as being over the top-ish. Though starring two of the hottest men on the planet (Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell), Cassandra's Dream is another one of Woody Allen's morbid murder movies.
The story takes off on the lives of a pair of brothers, Ian (McGregor) and Terry (Farrell). Addicted to gambling, whiskey an 'pills', Terry is the more high strung of the two. Ian has more potential and appears to be better loved by his parents. Their father (John Benfield) is a weak man with a dream that his wife (Clare Higgins) does not approve of. He has invested his life in his own little restaurant which doesn't put the food on the table (intended) all of the time and so the boys have been encouraged, by their mother, to look up to their rich and successful uncle (their mum's brother) Howard (Tom Wilkinson). And this is how the story goes. A family in the shadow of one man.
Things start to pick up pace when Terry goes and loses 90,000 pounds (since the sign for the currency does not appear on my keyboard, i'm sending it out there that this is about the money....its all about the money...always is) and then they have to run to good ol' uncle 'owie to give 'em their breaks. And everything spirals out of control from there!
Though you begin to expect a strange turn of events in the end, the unlikely twist, there's always something drastic that will leave you wondering why the hell...? and that's when the answer will come to you: it's Woody Allen!
Smothered in tones of grey, this movie is set in London (surprising how many movies he makes 'in' London!) and is very English working class. And that works for me; because that is the sort of language that I LOVE TO HEAR! The tone! The words! The very English expressions! *sigh*
Watch the movie if you must. Intriguing as it is, it isn't necessary to put yourself through it. Make sure you expect some bizarre bull...it'll be better that way!
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