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- Virgil Bliss
- Virgil Bliss---Moral force administrator or subject
- THIS MOVIE IS SIMPLY AMAZING...
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Virgil Bliss
Starring:
Clint Jordan ,
Kirsten Russell ,
Anthony Gorman ,
Greg Amici , and
Marc Romeo
Director:
Joe Maggio
Manufacturer: First Run Features
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ASIN: B00006JMQB
Release Date: 2002-11-26 |
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Virgil Bliss.......2007-02-15
What an incredible film! I loved Virgil from the opening right up to the violent moment of his undoing. What a powerful film. This is one of those movies you want to share with all the intelligent, thoughtful people you know. Virgil is a real person and we want him to have the life he so desperately searches for once he's been released from prison. Yet fate, or circumstance, or just dumb luck haunt him in the forms of Manny, the first "friend" Virgil makes on the outside, the halfway house "counselor" who is mostly concerned with showing his macho stuff, a society demanding that Virgil make it on his own but then won't allow him the most basic snese of self-determination, and an overall system programmed not to care. Virgil could have made it, and that is the tragedy of his story. Incredible performances all around but especially Clint Jordan as Virgil. If you crave excellent films that demand your full attention but then require you to come up with the answers, Virgil Bliss is for you.
Virgil Bliss---Moral force administrator or subject.......2002-12-29
At second viewing I was struck by how minimal the dailog was. The first time through I was captured by the total presentation; verbal and visual images combined. The minimalist technique is very effective since it allows you time to process the underlying meaning which you are always groping for in this film. Virgil is an unglamorous hero, but his morality is always on the line and being tested strongly as he copes with the harshness of his environment. One wonders about the source of his resolve and conviction. He is above all human however and cannot escape the overwhelming forces that surround him and try to destroy him at every turn.
THIS MOVIE IS SIMPLY AMAZING..........2002-12-04
"Virgil Bliss" is one of those rare movies that come along once in a long while--the kind of picture that doesn't yield all the answers in just one viewing, the sort of pic you have to watch more than once. What makes the movie worth watching repeatedly are the incredible performances by Clint Jordan and the cast, some of whom are non-actors with great faces and honest, true-life delivery. A must-see for anybody interested in real stories about real people and not that [stuff] being shoveled out by Hollywood. An antidote to "Harry Potter".
Customer Reviews:
Virgil Bliss.......2007-02-15
What an incredible film! I loved Virgil from the opening right up to the violent moment of his undoing. What a powerful film. This is one of those movies you want to share with all the intelligent, thoughtful people you know. Virgil is a real person and we want him to have the life he so desperately searches for once he's been released from prison. Yet fate, or circumstance, or just dumb luck haunt him in the forms of Manny, the first "friend" Virgil makes on the outside, the halfway house "counselor" who is mostly concerned with showing his macho stuff, a society demanding that Virgil make it on his own but then won't allow him the most basic snese of self-determination, and an overall system programmed not to care. Virgil could have made it, and that is the tragedy of his story. Incredible performances all around but especially Clint Jordan as Virgil. If you crave excellent films that demand your full attention but then require you to come up with the answers, Virgil Bliss is for you.
Virgil Bliss---Moral force administrator or subject.......2002-12-29
At second viewing I was struck by how minimal the dailog was. The first time through I was captured by the total presentation; verbal and visual images combined. The minimalist technique is very effective since it allows you time to process the underlying meaning which you are always groping for in this film. Virgil is an unglamorous hero, but his morality is always on the line and being tested strongly as he copes with the harshness of his environment. One wonders about the source of his resolve and conviction. He is above all human however and cannot escape the overwhelming forces that surround him and try to destroy him at every turn.
THIS MOVIE IS SIMPLY AMAZING..........2002-12-04
"Virgil Bliss" is one of those rare movies that come along once in a long while--the kind of picture that doesn't yield all the answers in just one viewing, the sort of pic you have to watch more than once. What makes the movie worth watching repeatedly are the incredible performances by Clint Jordan and the cast, some of whom are non-actors with great faces and honest, true-life delivery. A must-see for anybody interested in real stories about real people and not that [stuff] being shoveled out by Hollywood. An antidote to "Harry Potter".
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