I saw two foreign flicks this weekend - District B-13, a French martial arts action movie, and Cidade Baxia (Lower City), a Brazilian drama about two life long friends and the hooker they love. I recomend the former but not the latter. District B-13 doesn't try to be anything other than what it is, a conventional action flick featuring amazing martial artists that benefits from not been made in Hollywood. I really wanted to like Lower City, but it sucked. I found it to be a downer, and grimey. In the end I just don't buy the premise that the two main characters, friends and business parters, would risk their friendship over a hooker. And if even if they would, I didn't care.
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I actually do know two people who've risked their friendship over a hooker - it's also unbelievable and just plain sicker in real life than in the movies.
I'll put the action flick on my Netflix list. Don't get to the theatre much with the bambino.
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