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An Amazing Triple-Neck Acoustic Guitar Version of U2's "With or Without You," by Luca Stricagnoli

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Not Approved By The MPAA7/01/2018 6:08:43 pm PDT

re: #170 goddamnedfrank

Keep in mind that it is just a movie and given the subject matter, it was certain to exaggerate and capitalize on fear. That’s how you create the stakes in a film narrative. Poor timing? Absolutely.

As to your comments regarding the hopelessly broken portrayal of Mexico is in the film, I would ask you to look past the bombast and look at the scene where Del Toro and Isabela Moner arrive at the desert farm. The husband recognizes her and no doubt knows that whether he refuses them sanctuary, or agrees — he has compromised his family. But he does it because it is the right and moral thing to do. I would ask you to look at the scene between Josh Brolin and the Federale where it was demonstrated the type of joint cooperation that undoubtedly happens between US and Mexican authorities regardless of the political rhetoric.

As to your statement that the filmmakers purposely added in the opening sequence to appeal to the worst instincts of Mango Mussolini and his kin, I would ask for proof that occurred. Without that proof your statement is absurd given the simple fact that it is the events of that sequence which drives the rest of the movie. Which would mean everyone from Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Black Label Media to Sollima and Sheridan agreed to a complete rewrite of the script, the day after Trump was elected, and miraculously put it all in motion in a manner so efficient never to have happened in the history of cinema …

I’ve worked in the industry most of my adult life and it simply isn’t how things happen.

It’s quite okay to dislike the film for a variety of reasons, but please spare the Alex Jones type conspiracy theories. Again, if you have some evidence this happened, I would very much like to review it. I should have a copy of an early draft of the script in the near future and I will certainly let you know if the sequence is included.