![]() ![]() In the end, she believes that she is truly loved but she hasn’t changed much. Angelina’s character is not even a true villainess she is only a victimized puppet, a woman who doesn’t believe she is lovable. He comes off as merely stupid and adolescent. Antonio Banderas is supposed to be a passionate but doomed lover. In fact, none of the characters in “Original Sin” are worthy of our respect. Noble lover or not, he is too dumb to be respected. In films like “Dream Lover” or the masterpiece, “Days of Heaven”, we actually care about these loser rich guys. Let’s face it: The movies abound with innocent sincere rich men in search of true love who inevitably get suckered by a gorgeous money-loving woman. I will tell you, however, that you will spend a great amount of your time looking at your watch and wishing the movie would end. I won’t tell you about the plot twists because I don’t want to deprive you of the pleasure you might get at guessing them. it’s about this time that the movie begins its slow spiral downward. And before you can say, “Watch out!” Luis is being set up. While the audience can see through this woman, Luis is blind. She knows just how to play with the emotions of the smitten Luis. The ad is answered by beautiful, seemingly demure, Julia Russell ( Angelina Jolie.) Julia knows how to become the object of love/lust for just about any man. He advertises for a wife in a Baltimore paper. Handsome, rich and noble, Luis is hard put to find in Cuba a wife “who looks to the future”. The Lover is represented by turn-of-the century Cuban coffee-planter, Luis Vargas ( Antonio Banderas). Okay, fine! But if we are to believe what this movie says, not only is a true lover unable to withstand the power of love, love also makes people quite stupid. We learn early on in the movie that “it is not a love story, it is a story about love.” We even get definitions telling us the difference between love and lust. Perhaps, the silliest I’ve seen in my life. In fact, “Original Sin” is quite frankly, the silliest movie I have seen this year. It is quite difficult for a movie to be silly, boring and sexually offensive all at the same time, but “Original Sin” succeeds.
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