This movie is great art

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2000)

There is a number of movies which may be considered to attain the same level of super-masterpiece as "Some Like it Hot", showing that cinema can really be great art. It depends by personal tastes: a common choice could be "The Seventh Seal", "Citizen Kane", "Alexandr Nevsky", "2001: A Space Odyssey" etc. By sure, no film can claim to be better than "Some Like it Hot". In movie history, it is impossible to overcome it in the quality of the story, of the photography, of the costumes, of the music, of the direction, of the performances and charisma of the actors, of the careful and evocative reconstruction of the roaring twenties. What about the script? This is beyond any description, pure art, work of genius at his highest level. OK, the plot is not realistic... well, is Mozart's "Magic Flute" realistic? Some works of art are just not involved with realism. I deliberately pass over the fact that Wilder's masterpiece is also one of the funniest movies ever made: art may be tragic or comic or what else. It doesn't matter: it remains art. Such being my opinions on the movie, one can figure that I was almost annihilated gathering from IMDb comments that some dislike it! Well... I guess we can discover even people considering Marilyn an ugly woman...