After watching Marcel Camus masterpiece "Orpheo Negro" I had high expectations for this film. The story here is simple:
In search of happiness, two adventurers find themselves in the deepest Amazon region. Here they find what they are looking for and will soon be in possession of a valuable diamond. But greed eats away at one of him and he steals the diamond, tries to kill his partner and runs away. But the deceived person is not satisfied with that and begins to hunt down the bold thief, in the middle of the deepest jungle. He meets the former girlfriend of his enemy and tries to find out some things about this guy. It doesn't take much long and the man and the woman are attracted to each other. When he finally meets his enemy instead of killing him he saves his life and let him go away.
The film, shot by Marcel Camus in Brazil, is rich in beautiful images and ideas, but suffers from the unclear construction of the story and gets boring after a while.
It may sound like the story of an adventure movie but its more of a medidation. The whole film is very slow, there are not much highlights that keep the story moving.
This film is very disappointing and the whole revenge-story doesn't make any sense.
Better watch "Orpheo Negro", it's a much better one!
In search of happiness, two adventurers find themselves in the deepest Amazon region. Here they find what they are looking for and will soon be in possession of a valuable diamond. But greed eats away at one of him and he steals the diamond, tries to kill his partner and runs away. But the deceived person is not satisfied with that and begins to hunt down the bold thief, in the middle of the deepest jungle. He meets the former girlfriend of his enemy and tries to find out some things about this guy. It doesn't take much long and the man and the woman are attracted to each other. When he finally meets his enemy instead of killing him he saves his life and let him go away.
The film, shot by Marcel Camus in Brazil, is rich in beautiful images and ideas, but suffers from the unclear construction of the story and gets boring after a while.
It may sound like the story of an adventure movie but its more of a medidation. The whole film is very slow, there are not much highlights that keep the story moving.
This film is very disappointing and the whole revenge-story doesn't make any sense.
Better watch "Orpheo Negro", it's a much better one!
