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Land of Plenty (2004) has a lot active for it ... It's yet different amazingly flavoursome and field of study motion picture by the one and lone Wim Wenders, the Jim Jarmoush of Germany.

Where to begin?...

First, the casting - precise on the money!

We of module recollect Michelle Williams as the overwrought spouse in the Brokeback Mountain. She was so valid in that knotty role as the Midwest married woman caught up in a affiliation that panic-stricken her fallen to her connective tissue.

Here Williams drama a fully variant role - the unmingled angel exasperating to do neat. Williams and John Diehl as her uncle and ill-conceived unpaid worker patriot are obedient to a fault. I cognize I'll be superficial to see their new hard work as healthy.

(And the fact that Williams is the record beautiful Dove-girl-next-door you'll ever see does not injured at all. Just exterior at that frontage...)

Then comes Wenders's original purloin on the assignment 9-11 psychosis that we are all conscious on a day by day cause... belief ginger... code red... those haunting metaphors of airplanes loaded beside passengers and jet matter becoming extinct into skyscrapers... ahhh, it's not assured to carry that sadness, that anger, that psychical load near no closing in scene.

And we see that in Diehl's qualities - an ex-Marine who decides to transport belongings into his own guardianship and brush up the motherland from all vermin, even more those that impairment mantled towels for headgear. Period.

But of curriculum to have a intuition instinct of respect for the country, the flag, mom and the apple pie is not satisfactory. This is a intricate worldwide we are sentient in and holding are scarce what they seem to be to be. Our ex-Marine finds it out the serious way...

The climax has any spare lecture and exposition but general this is a neat story, acted out and oriented in good health. It approaches a exceedingly stroppy concern done the flawed filtering of two souls - one misplaced in the world, and the opposite in unchanging suffering.

This is not a big screen you'll close to if you are a visible light merry organism next to no worries in energy. You are warned.

However, if you suchlike this one same I did, you may possibly as well impoverishment to observe out two separate strange Wenders films:

Wings of Desire and Don't Come Knocking

Good art redeems our transience. Land of Plenty does that near flying colors, short degrading itself.