Cinema is about dreaming

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2004)

Don't let negative opinions put you off. It is one of rare examples of good balance between sentimentality and art in cinema. 'Gangs ...', with their beautiful pictures, first-sort editing and matching music are much more then a pseudo-historic movie as the aforementioned Braveheart. They tell a tale happening in a different world, so much different from the one we live in or see in 'normal' movies. The story and the characters may be a bit on the schematic side, like in about every Hollywood production, but this is a simplicity of a fairy-tale or a legend, and is completely adequate to a nostalgic - and somewhat colored up - vision of times and people long gone by. Having said that, the acting, as well as directing leave nothing to be desired.

If you go to the cinema to dream a dream together with the director, like on Burton's or Jarmush's works, you should definitely see it.