Why do you have to explain everything so explicitly???

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2004)

'The Last Samurai' was better than I expected, since the trailer made me think that Tom Cruise would be the Last Samurai which I found to be an offense to my logic!!! However, this is not the case and the film has the potential of becoming a masterpiece until the halfway of the movie, with an interesting plot and intense feeling.
The main problems start at about that time, when some logic gaps start to appear (according to my sense of logic that is...) and the movie cannot persuade me about the goal of protecting a culture from imperialistic influences when the origin of the film has already consumed much of that cultural elements that are meant to be protected by Tom. Hmmmm!!!
Anyway, another problem is the explicit statement of what the movie is all about and what message is meant to get across. We have to think by ourselves about the meaning and find our own, or not? This movie made me think about the 'Theatre of the Oppressed', a book by Augusto Boal, and why it is politics to make a movie... 6/10