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Manito Reviews
Awesome! Sad, real, raw, moving = perfect choice for erica :)
3/5. Pretty solid. Extremely low budget and it's carried almost like a documentary. Some of the acting's got some hiccups but the lead and a few others do a damn good job.
A very well done film. The struggles of a somewhat tame Dominican household are brought to light in this Indy flick. I say somewhat tame because I can totally relate. I'm sandwiched in a crappy apartment, tucked deep inside of Brooklyn's crappy 'Little Dominica,' and I deal with this drama daily. Worth a view if you want a short independent film.
A very tragic story about people trying to make their life work and they simply find too tough circumstances to find their way through.
This film is So powerful, So good, So seamless. It's not like watching a movie. It's more like watching a documentary. There is not a false note in the whole movie. Why not a higher grade? It ends too soon and it ends too abruptly. Maybe that was the point. To show that is how life can be. It's random anything can happen at anytime. People don't make the right decisions. Sometimes the wrong people get punished. Also by ending it so abruptly it makes the audience feel more emotional towards the film and characters. I know i did. I wanted to spend more time with the characters. They made me care about them. They made me want to see how they end up and where they end up. I admire this film moved me emotionally. The film is short and bittersweet. It made me think the characters are real not cookie cutter perfect they have flaws. Take for instance. The main character loves his family and is an ex-con. Not a saint he lies on his business insurance form. He hires cheap labor, Uses cheap paint, Sleeps with his client, Cheats on his wife numerous times. But you care about him. The story is of the title character. Who has it all. He is about to graduate high school, he has a scholarship to college, his crush shows up at his graduation party, his family loves him and is proud of him, but he makes one wrong decision that could ruin his future. His brother feels guilty as he tries to save him from this fate almost identical to what happened to him. In this film. We get a glimpse into the other members of this family as well as us getting a glimpse into the working class neighborhood of Washington heights. The performances are by little known or novice actors. Which helps grounding us into the realism. The only actor from this I have seen gone into other films is franky g. (Confidence, The Italian Job, Saw 2.) The director Eric Eason. Directed another film named "journey into the night" I see a central theme with him and his movies are damaged father-son relationships and the placement of brothels. I feel he is a naturalistic filmmaker like the greats from the 70's. The final scene is so (Forgive me) heartbreaking. The line the father uses to dismiss his son is so cold you wonder if he ever truly had a soul.
Manito tells another cultural views of the city. It is not overstated but really emotional. Because we don't talk about the gun issue, it seem unrealistic from us but it still is.
Manito is the rare little movie that gets bigger as it goes along--so big that it can hardly contain its own emotion. Franky G.'s performance as the protective yet combustible older brother is as real as it gets.
Great movie! so real and raw...not a blockbuster but worthy of making my collection
Great. Believable culutrual representations and not too exaggerated. Shows cycles of violence for poor latin-american life and the flaws of the justice system.
This is not going to be the greatest movie you ever see but it is a true depiction of Latin life in New York City. The message in this movie is great and it will keep your atention.
I loved the message of this movie.It speaks highly on the spanish speaking communities in New York and elsewhere.It was sad but the message was good.I Loved it.