Review of Protagonist (2007) by Walter M — 13 Aug 2008
[font=Century Gothic]By taking a page out of Errol Morris' playbook, with the documentary "Protagonist," Jessica Yu has made a mildly successful and occasionally perplexing film(sorry, but I don't get the whole Greek puppets thing.
..) with four ordinary men, Mark Pierpont, Hans-Joachim Klein, Joe Loya and Mark Salzman testifying about troubled times in their lives.(Of the four, Klein is the most notorious of the four due to his involvement with terrorists in West Germany in the 1970's including the infamous Carlos the Jackal.
For this reason, he is also not the most fortcoming, sounding a little naive in fact. Remember, if somebody ever hands you a loaded gun, playtime is over.) What she is after is an exploration of masculinity as all the men included here were missing something from their lives when they were younger, be it a parent's love or a cause, and were lured by the siren song of fanaticism.
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This review of Protagonist (2007) was written by Walter M on 13 Aug 2008.
Protagonist has generally received positive reviews.
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