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by WilliamJones  - Top 1000, Mar 01 '03
Pros: Many
Cons: Few
Movies, in general, are too full of chatter. Film is a visual medium (as should be readily apparent to all) and yet it's a medium that's often overloaded with dialog. Someone, it seems, is always talking. I'm reminded of something the great ...
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by metalluk - Top 100, Feb 28 '04
Pros: A visually gorgeous, minimalist perspective on middle-class Vietnamese culture of 1951
Cons: Sacrifices plot and character development so as to focus on sumptuous visual detail
What this film lacks is as important to understanding and appreciating it as are its strengths. The Scent of Green Papaya follows a design in the minimalist tradition, whereby a work of art is stripped of several of the qualities usually expected ...
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by trust12345 - Top 1000, Nov 29 '02
Pros: Nothing
Cons: Abyssmal acting, script, characters, music. Utterly pointless from start to finish.
After seeing this film, and then reading two 5-star reviews (well, one review and one total rip off from James Berandinelli's original), I feel compelled to right some wrongs.
Set in Vietnam before the war, the putative story of The Scent of...
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by judy_lind , Oct 22 '04
Pros: An enchanting film which shows that sometimes less is more.
Cons: None, unless you're an action/adventure buff.
It is hard to imagine a more beautiful movie than Tran Anh Hung's "The Scent of Green Papaya". With a bare minimum of dialogue, Tran brings to the screen the story of an upper-middle-class Vietnamese family in transition in the early 1950s. Through ...
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