I have to admit, I enjoyed the movie Tango much more than expected. It was slow at first, but the powerful dancing, the lighting gave you a mixture of emotions, and the storyline took you on rollercoaster feelings through the movie. The story portrayed a film producer Mario's life. We started off by seeing his scenes with his ex (girlfriend, wife or other), then a period of mourning, followed by a new, younger love in his life. The lighting helped show the emotions he was feeling during each scene. Warm colors represented happier times, and then blended into muted tones of warm colors that made you feel hostility. The quickly moving light made you feel unsettled, unsure of what was going to happen. Then white to black, black to white gave a feeling of a struggle between the different emotions love emits.
The actual storyline from the production (the end of the movie) told more of a timeline of Argentina. The ups and downs the people of Argentina had during their turbulent history. Though possibly difficult to interpret, the scene where the military was torturing the citizens was very powerful, and in my opinion, well-choreographed. The orange color gave you a violent feeling, mixed with the motion of the dance provided a chaotic scene. The very end, when the mafia boss yelled out to his former love, Mario’s current love, I really thought the scene had gone wrong, and the perpetrator was really going to kill her for leaving the mafia boss. Mario runs to her screaming, that made me think he was next. Overall, I applaud the movie.
Chris Pappas
Chris, I agree that at the end of the film I was uncertain what was happening. At first I thought maybe Elana was actual killed, as you said, because of the ex-mafia boyfriend. Then I was certain Mario would face retaliation from Angelo when he was holding Elana in his arms and blatantly showing he was the "other love". I'm still confused as to rather Angelo screamed for Elana because he was so moved by the performance that it seemed real, or if ,as he tried to pull off, that it was part of the performance. Sometimes it was hard to differentiate between what was real and what was Mario's dreams or imagination. Despite this, I agree it was a good film. It left me thinking about the power of music and dance and about the plight of the Argentinean people. Beth Niehaus
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