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the wonder show of the world......high high high above them all.......nice picture
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I first saw this movie when I was off school and lying sick on the sofa, watching the telly between groans. Not a propitious start you might think but I really enjoyed the movie and always wanted to see it again. This DVD grants my wish. The DVD comes from Korea and therefore is dirt cheap (how?!?!) Anyway, the sound track is in English and it plays perfectly so the Korean connection is not a problem. It makes the DVD slip case hard to read but that's no big deal. Why did I enjoy the movie? It just has a lot of mid-century style. Check out Curtis' jeans or Lolobrigida's outfits. So cool! I totally believe Lancaster is a circus performer and I agree to suspend disbelief with respect to the other two. It is effectively a three-hand movie and I like the way the three actors are in a triangle (Lancaster/Curtis are an established duo with Lolobrigida trying to fit in) just as their characters are performers in a triangle. This mirroring of 'reality' (which is contrived i.e. a deliberate product of the casting and thus unreal) and 'fiction' (where not just the script is pretending to be something it ain't) just adds layers of complexity to an otherwise seemingly simple movie. I also like the documentary style glimpses of 1950s Paris in the street/bar/hotel scenes away from the circus. The only thing I don't like and can't see any purpose to are the 'comic acts' which are as unfunny as the comic interludes in Shakespeare i.e. a dwarf who continually draws attention to his height and denigrates himself and Sid James (how is he in this movie?!?!?) who plays a man trying to sell a snake act (and seems to be telegraphing desperately, look I am funny, no really, I am funny, please find me funny). Bizarre. If there is a deep symbolism in all this (circuses?, dwarfs?, snakes?) it passed me by. Anyway, something about this unlikely combination just kinda sticks in the mind and it becomes a movie that once seen you never forget. I mean how many circus movies are there? I think it must be a 'classic' but I can't exactly explain why. Well, it's going cheap (all the way from Korea) so snap up a copy and make up your own mind.
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