Product: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans [Blu-ray] (2009)
Rating: 4.0
Screenplay a la Woody Allen's Formula.
In many Woody Allen's movie, the protagonist often gets himself/herself into all kinds of big and small troubles due to his/her own personality/cirucmstances/stupor, etc. All the little mishaps will eventually lead to a final blowup or climax. Not only did the screenwriter of the present movie borrow Woody's comedic formula generously, he also included many unexpected twists and turns.Instead of pulling a ship up a mountain or fighting a no-win battle with God, Nicholas Cage, the protagonist, was fighting his backpain, uncontrollable drug and gambling habit, the local drug kinpin, the loan shark, the unsympathetic attorney general, the out-of-town thugs, his own dysfunctional family, ... in the post-Katrina New Orleans. As in many Herzog's movie, the final climax left the audience another metaphysical question: Was the final blowup a consequence of FATE, or the result of Cage's intelligent calculations admidst his painful and drug-induced high state?