Ironweed (1987, dir H Babenco, w Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep,

IRONWEED


Directed by Hector Babenco


Starring

Jack Nicholson
Meryl Streep
Carroll Baker
Tom Waits


Music by John Morris


Release date(s) December 18, 1987



SYNOPSIS

Have you ever wondered what\'s it\'s like to be homeless? Ironweed takes its viewers into that shadowy world of the rail yards, cardboard shantytowns, underpasses, and abandoned automobiles, and shows us incisive glimpses of how a person arrives there. Featuring what I think are the very best performances by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, Ironweed gets us deep into the sooty, grimy, bilious skin of the two `hobos.\' Like Schindler\'s List, Ironweed is dark poetry.

Set in Albany during the Great Depression, Ironweed delivers not an ounce of moralizing. It\'s like a clinical exposition of the homeless person\'s entire life, both from without, and within. On the outside, of course, there\'s the Depression: a society doing the best it can to get by. From the `hobo\'s\' point of view, one feels the implicit violence of a culture taught to view others as economic instruments of their own survival. The homeless, of course, are on the bottom end of the food chain.

On the inside, Ironweed takes us into the intense pain of dashed hopes and expectations. From within and without, the homeless are caught in a whirling vortex that only grinds them down deeper and deeper into despair, the type that Kierkegaard\'s describes in `Sickness unto Death.\' It\'s where intense poverty is not just physical, but spiritual.


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Ironweed - 1987 - dir Hector Babenco, w Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Tom Waits.avi
AVI, 1.37 GiB, 2h 23mn
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MP3, Joint stereo, 245 Kbps, VBR, 48 KHz

Audio is english
No subtitles