Alfie

1001 Movies ... my own version (1960's) (100 movies items)

" Notes: Since this movie had a really solid reputation, I had some rather high expectations but, to be honest, I thought it was actually slightly disappointing. Of course, it was better than the remake starring Jude Law but, somehow, I had a hard time to get into this movie. Personally, I think it is because the morals and opinions have changed. I mean, 50 years ago, when this movie was released, you can imagine the impact that this libertine character must have had but, nowadays, we have a dif"

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" Notes: Since this movie had a really solid reputation, I had some rather high expectations but, to be honest, I thought it was actually slightly disappointing. Of course, it was better than the remake starring Jude Law but, somehow, I had a hard time to get into this movie. Personally, I think it is because the morals and opinions have changed. I mean, 50 years ago, when this movie was released, you can imagine the impact that this libertine character must have had but, nowadays, we have a dif"

Alfie

“A corrosive portrait of a misogynist getting his comeuppance, Alfie is a minor late-60s work anchored by a wonderful Michael Caine performance. Caine gives a layered, complex performance that finds Alfie’s toxic masculinity, unwarranted arrogance, and gross sexism smothering a deep insecurity and contradictory fourth-wall breaking justifications. He is infinitely better than the rest of this hedonistic glimpse of Swinging London.   Perhaps it’s because our main character is so nearly off-putting that I couldn’t embrace Alfie. It’s hard to care about a narrative when the main character is so nearly without redeeming qualities to counterbalance. It becomes an exercise in endurance of one man’s bad behavior and his seemingly unwillingness or purposeful blindness to the damage he” read more

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