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Land of Plenty (2004) has a lot going for it ... It's yet another astonishingly appetizing and field motion-picture show by the one and simply Wim Wenders, the Jim Jarmoush of Germany.

Where to begin?...

First, the casting - exact on the money!

We of teaching remind Michelle Williams as the distraught mate in the Brokeback Mountain. She was so bona fide in that problem function as the Midwest lady of the house caught up in a tie that panicky her hair to her marrow.

Here Williams acting a very distinguishable persona - the perfect angel annoying to do suitable. Williams and John Diehl as her uncle and foolish unpaid worker patriot are apposite to a responsibleness. I cognise I'll be looking to see their other employment as good.

(And the fact that Williams is the peak gorgeous Dove-girl-next-door you'll of all time see does not injured at all. Just stare at that facade...)

Then comes Wenders's peculiar filch on the stake 9-11 psychosis that we are all sentient on a day by day idea... code chromatic... belief red... those persistent descriptions of airplanes overloaded near passengers and jet oil becoming extinct into skyscrapers... ahhh, it's not easy to take that sadness, that anger, that spiritualist load beside no approach in inspection.

And we see that in Diehl's traits - an ex-Marine who decides to payoff property into his own custody and cleanse the country of origin from all vermin, specially those that impairment wrapped towels for vesture. Period.

But of flight path to have a suspicion chockablock of liking for the country, the flag, mom and the apple pie is not enough. This is a complicated international we are animate in and things are scarcely what they seem to be. Our ex-Marine finds it out the catchy way...

The climax has every gratuitous pedagogy and expounding but general this is a obedient story, acted out and oriented healthy. It approaches a thoroughly taxing thesis through the corrupt filtering of two souls - one vanished in the world, and the opposite in unvarying torment.

This is not a movie you'll similar to if you are a rays beaming soul beside no worries in enthusiasm. You are warned.

However, if you similar this one similar I did, you possibly will likewise poorness to bank check out two other unusual Wenders films:

Wings of Desire and Don't Come Knocking

Good art redeems our death. Land of Plenty does that next to flying colors, lacking difficult itself.