21 Grams

Rating:★★★★
Category:Movies
Genre: Independent
This is in some form a masterpiece of a (an independent, I should imagine) film by Argentinian director Alejandro González Iñárritu. The beauty in it lies in its disjointed presentations of sub-plots and a reverse chronological order of the original script, requiring an intelligible reconstruction of the pieces of the full story on the part of the viewer.

Somehow the premise of the title of the film (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Grams) does not lend sufficient weight to the importance of the possible intended depiction of the frailty of life and the resultant response of attitude that is persuaded to the viewer.

Brilliant acting by Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro nonetheless.

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