Camino

Incredibly stupid emotional terrorism, which uses exactly the same range of emotions and persuasive means as the religious fanaticism it fights against. Camino is a monstrous triumph of utterance, emotional blackmail and the stupidest agitation. The fact that it agitates "ideology" may improve it, but it doesn't change the fact that Camino is a stupid and insidious advertisement for childhood innocence and Converse shoes. Everything in it is adapted to have an effect, but the seeming heights in this film are only repulsive lows. Personally, in the face of such none-sense, I find myself in a state of boundless fury. One of the stupidest films I have ever seen. (2010.02.22)

A totally brutal emotional rollercoaster from Spain which, wherever it can, grabs at everybody’s soul so that we would all be properly devastated by the movie. Normally, I can sort of handle similar movies, but the sick child in this one is not for everybody. I know that not everybody can handle movies like this one… but in this case I guess they would shit their pants. The little girl’s performance is so unreal that I couldn’t comprehend how she was able to play being OK at one moment, then sick and then on her deathbed. One of the few stories that I had a really hard time watching. (2019.01.29)