The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Constance Jones, Kate Winslet, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Vernon GroteBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Product features:
- TESTED OK
- 2003 DATE
DVD Reviews of The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Horrifying,Wretched, and Ludicrous!
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me tell you, nothing makes me happier than when I see a movie purporting to present the arguement, by at least some of it's cast, that all life is sacred and redeemable, deliver a "point-by-point" instructional on "how-to" suffocate and rape a bound woman.... ENSURING she will have no hope of escape. Yep, nothing could be more humane. Not even abolishing the death penalty, which, if that was a goal of the screenwriter (first and god-I-hope-last time penner Charles Rudolph) or the normally reliable director Alan Parker, it should ask those gentlemen to kindly horse-whip themselves. The level of ludicrous, empty violence against WOMEN in this film is SICKENING. David Gale, who is supposed to be this harmless, likeable, Casper Milquetoast college professor becomes disturbingly drunk at a student/faculty party and has gross skirt-yanked-up,woman presses-against-the front-of-a-sink (hey, why not just have her on her knees in front of a toilet?), man panting wordlessly... (cause ya know that's how all us COLLEGE GALS luv it)... exposed-breasts-jiggling (I could practically see that obnoxious, misguided limey old fart Pakula drooling while he filmed it...sorry, I'm MAD!) bathroom sex with a MUCH younger woman who earlier told him she would "do anything for a good grade". Not only does Gale lead her on when she propositions him then with a lascivious, leering "rejection" of her "advances" where he practically leaves a trail of slime down her neck into her cleaveage, (why doesn't he just firmly turn her down? Because he's SKANKY), but also the film seems to imply that, though he is married, the bathroom sex is a justifiable act b/c A. She was asking for it B. Gale's wife is rumored to have (presumably an ADULT, non-STUDENT) lover in Spain. So later when this pissed-off lass "cries rape" (oh, it just gets yummier and yummier) Gale's life as a prof. at that school is over. Despite the fact that he was not convicted, apparently he cannot find a teaching job ANYWHERE else in the free world. Not even the virgin islands, where I hear you can get a medical degree for 5 bucks and a carton of menthols. So now we're in for some legendarily bad acting of the "look-ma-I'm-drunk" variety. You know, don't we all scream at people on the streets, carry bottles of liquor around w/ us i public, and open our mouths and leave them there like we're a stroke-victims whenever we're drunk? Gosh I know I do! I mean, it is LAUGHABLE! Spacey is SO BAD. It's like he had a secret bet w/ some of the crew guys or something. How could Pakula not notice? By the way, Kate Winslet's worst performance ever. EVER. Chin tremby, no tears, hideously contrived wailing pre-schooler fake-crying her way into more Kool-aid and cookies from mommy. AWFUL. We are supposed to believe Gale's meltdown is fueled by evil, adulterous wifey yanking kid away w/ her to Spain. The meltdown and loss of hope are at the center of an agreement he later sets up w/ Constance. The further objectification of women continues when Laura Linney's character "Constance" is given leukemia. Despite her UNSHAKEABLE opposition to the death penalty and her cavalry calling to save EVERY soul condemned, she decides the only thing to do now since "I'm sick" is to "kill myself and use my death to martyr a suicidal Gale for the anti-death penalty movement." We are asked to believe that since this is FOR A CAUSE it is ALL RIGHT. Yeah, Constance killing herself and leaving her beloved organization bereaved and without a leader is OKEE DOKEE and so totally a sane decision any educated, female democrat would make.And HEY! Don't worry kids, we get to see her death scene in all it's exploitive glory. Pakula says in the extras that he and Linney chose not to use a body double so it would be more "REAL" to him, her, and the other actors. It couldn't possibly be b/c she is SLENDER and BEAUTIFUL and quite a tasty feast for the eyes when she's all naked and writhing on the floor? Nothing like a hot lady who's nude and handcuffed w/ a bag over her head, suffocating, Eh? Remember when a chubby goth girl offers to reinact the murder scene for Winslet's reporter character earlier in the film I noticed she is asked to "please" NOT remove her clothes. DISGUSTING. SOOOOOO SEXIST. I don't even think Pakula knows how an educated, left-leaning informed female movie viewer like myself truly sees all this. The theme of this movie seems to be: "2 wrongs make a right." If your wife has an affair: fu*k your failing and desperate female student from behind while you're drunk at a party. If you disagree with the death penalty: forge your own death and then set up a drunken, suicidal divorced patsy to take the fall for it so that he, an "innocent" man, can be convicted to the "lethal needle" and you can prove, once-and-for-all, how the system you MANIPULATED and SNOWED is "flawed." The calculated, preposterous machinations one would have to have undertaken for this film's ending to rationally occur would be beyond the reach and scope of anyone who had a remote ammount of decency or the slightest sprinkling of respect for justice or, God forbid, truth...or for that matter, for women or themselves. THIS MOVIE IS DOG PUKE. Rent it so you can HATE it, as do I. On a positive note, the cinematography is gorgeous, every scene is glossy and perfectly lit, the extras rule, and the music, by Pakula's 2 sons, is very good.
Description of The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)
LIFE OF DAVID GALE - DVD MovieKevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer
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