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Summary: A powerful and uplifting movie
Review: This is an excellent film! I really urge everyone to put this film at the top of their list of must-sees. I thought the acting and the direction were absolutely incredible and the movie has really stayed with me. It is a very unique kind of film because it uses actual interviews from real people as its script. I was skeptical when I first heard about it as I really didn't want to see a violent, graphic movie depicting or re-enacting a hate crime, but so many different people were telling me I HAD to see it that I decided to risk it. Whether you remember or don't remember the details of the killing of gay university student Matthew Shepard it doesn't matter. The movie is not really about the crime itself but with how the people of Laramie, WY dealt with it. In the end the movie is totally inspiring and uplifting, with humor and thought-provoking scenes throughout. It is really about where America is today. I put it in my all-time top ten!
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Summary: Just a made-up documentary
Review: This movie is simply a documentary. In fact, it's really just a bunch of interviews. And interviews with actors portraying the original people that lived in this town. So, really, it's just a made-up documentary.That understood, it was well done. It looked real, the actors did a great job. I don't remember hearing about this true-life incident, so I wasn't swept up in the emotion, nor was I really interested in the event. I would have liked this movie a whole lot more if it was NOT a documentary, but a re-enactment of the whole incident, from the Shepard boy's life and home and at school, to the murder, to the aftermath. THEN, the interviews could have had some meaning. I watched it. I sat through the whole thing. But if I came across this documentary, or rather, a REAL documentary with the real people on Discovery, A&E, or some channel like that, I would change the channel and not be interested at all.
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Summary: Tragically Good
Review: This was a good documentary. I recently viewed it for my Sociology class. It was very onesided, however I agreed with every aspect. I am not a homosexual but I am a supporter. I hope it opened up some people's minds. Basically it was about a group of people who went around interviewing people who were associated with Matthew Shephard. Their intentions were to make a play. It went through the whole story, and you learned about the people. However keep in mind that Laramie, Wyoming is depicted as a "hick" run down town. That is not the case at all.
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Summary: Forget the artistic commentry and lets remeber the meaning!
Review: Whatever one may think of the artistic value of this play/file (I think it is brill!!!!) lets not forget the lesson it teaches us and also Matt's family.
No one could fail to be moved by this story....
Great piece of work!!!!
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Summary: The Greatest Evil Man Has Ever, Ever Seen
Review: You would think that watching this movie, that the murder of Matthew Shepard was the single greatest act of evil ever committed in human history.
Don't get me wrong: the murder of anyone is an act of evil. But the preening, face-twisting rage of one actor after another kept knocking me out of the story. Was there this much histrionics at Nuremberg?
I don't think I'm speaking ill of the dead by pointing out that a drunken gay guy hitting on Wyoming barflies may not be the brightest way to spend an evening. And I'm not saying he deserved what he got, but it was weird seeing normally-liberal actresses howling for the blood of the murderers. How do they feel about the death penalty sentences of other killers?
(I know they're supposed to be reading speeches by actual citizens, but most of them felt like crafted messages or hectoring sermons).
Every week in America, horrific crimes are committed on thousands of people every year--some bewildering in their motives and horrifying in their details. Maybe I've just been desensitized by keeping up on the news, but I can't blame Laramie or America or myself for the death of this guy.
Or maybe this film, so desperate and zealous to convey its outrage, lost its dramatic focus by becoming a smug, haughty screed.
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