Lenny

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Leaburn O @RT35452347 May 21 Slow burn at first but builds gravitas and intensity as the story unwinds. A biopic worth watching for its cultural significance. Watched on Amazon Prime. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Dec 8 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Irene M @igawel 07/29/2023 Dustin Hoffman does a good job portraying the character, especially the finger snapping. I hated the very very last scene. I started thinking alot about George Carlin, after it was over. See more Georgan G @RT98616417 01/30/2023 This movie is a reminder that words are cultural, never "bad" or "obscene." It's been too long for most reading this to remember Lenny Bruce, but he was the 1st to use comedy for social change. See more Shioka O @RT54204327 09/18/2022 I somehow felt that this is a lengthy when I was watching. Anyways cinematography is amazing, well crafted and just beautiful. See more Ben D @RT87620530 03/02/2022 For the first episode of my podcast, my co-host and I pay homage to Lenny Bruce for being the bedrock of modern comedy and a free-speech crusader. I had never viewed Lenny before and was expecting a typical biopic concerning the comedian — childhood, struggle, rise, fall, etc. But that's not how the film plays out. Instead, Lenny is shot in a fragmented, arthouse feel with a style that mixes scenes of his life with interviews from friends and loved ones after his untimely death. Dustin Hoffman plays our titular character, and I probably couldn't think of a more perfect casting. Ultimately, this is the real-life story of the legal system destroying a man (for telling jokes) even when he technically wins in court. Unfortunately, it is not the legal system that destroys artists like Lenny these days, but fellow Americans. Ironically, he wasn't arrested for going on cringey — even at the time — tirades about n*gger, spic, wop, mick, etc., (not to be blatantly offensive, but to prove a point concerning giving power to words) but for saying the word "cocksucker". Moreover, Lenny wasn't arrested in Middle America or the Deep South, but in supposed bastions of freedom like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. Hoffman does a mesmerizing job of Lenny's transformation from charismatic comic to legal obsessive, literally reading Supreme Court opinions on stage. As Eddie Izzard says, Lenny Bruce was the "Jesus Christ of Comedy…he died for us… for freedom of speech." For this reason alone, he demands to be studied and his legacy protected. While not everyone loved Lenny (Roger Ebert for one), I think that the average viewer would enjoy this film and it should be required watching for anyone who calls themselves an "artist" or is in "entertainment". Legend. Icon. Groundbreaker. In typical Lenny Bruce fashion, he held a mirror up to society and changed it for the better, and had to perish to do it. See more Read all reviews

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