Review of Nine (2009) by Michelh — 09 Jan 2010
This musical creatively tells a story about an honored artist's spiritual odyssey. It's a soul's journey of a media frenzied Italian film director, ala Fellini, who has finally met himself in crisis and doesn't like what he has become.
He is creatively and ethically bankrupt and must change or perish. At this precipice of his life music, song, dance and beautiful sets play out the emotions of the characters in such a way as to dramatically feel, almost grok, the depiction of the joys, sadness, mortality and resurrection of the infinite human spirit.
It's the most brilliant use of the musical medium of film making since the Phantom. However, the flip side sorely seems to be that this musical is another pearl tossed before the swine of critics enamored with but the pornography of violence or the "Shock the Monkey" type of teenage pandering.
So.......? I'm afraid we won't get many more of these wonderful creative gems of spiritual dimension.
This review of Nine (2009) was written by Michelh on 09 Jan 2010.
Nine has generally received mixed reviews.
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