Is nobody as moved as I am?

I was moved. Pinero was great, I just wish he would have appreciated his talent, and lived a more stable life where he could have a family and continue his work...it was his choice....his life.....interesting person nonetheless.......

Awesome movie about a very interesting preson. Bratt was excellent. I have to be bad to keep being good.........Intense, dark, true. I bought the dvd. I can't wait to share it with friends. The one friend I watched it with so far loved it.

Been there

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Many people are moved by extravagant-spectacular-effects-movies with less script but techno-visual-virtual-digital-domain-wizardy, those movies are good,ok, no hard feeling, they come straight from Meliés-human desire legacy to dream,even silly dreams, no bad thing but there is also Piñero kind of cinema ( well remember, "Man gave name to all...")that mantains it's life standing in front of these big trees, but think about that if the film moved US, certainly it have moved may viewers, not everybody in the net is compelled to write a response for many reasons, so I take pride in thinking that at least, people like you recognize this film. Ichaso's Bitter sugar, and the one with Ruben Blades, I beg your pardon ,but can not recall the title, are demonstrations, of a filmaker doing well, very well his job, along with all the staff, producers, grips etc., Piñero is dark, and in that darness it illuminates the "panorama" the scope of art and struggling. If you are surprised amazed of nobody writing a review at all, the same happens to the composer, Mr. Kip Hanrahan,he has been making an intresting classical-avantgrade-fusion-integration music and many people are unaware of, so we can express our concerns and faith, that even in silence, there are many many people watching and enjoying, and noding with approval this kind of film that narrrates the people as they lived.

I finally got around to seeing the whole film (saw parts of it when it was first on cable in 2003), and it hit me in the gut! I had known that Short Eyes was a play, but couldn't have told you who wrote it, prior to hearing there was a film called Pinero.

Many think poetry has been dead since the '60s, at least on a major, popular scale, but Miguel Pinero was a true poet! The Lower East Side poem he wrote for his own funeral sent chills up my spine. I just looked it up online to get the text - amazing! I know it's a film, and liberties were likely taken, but I really feel like this film told truths about this man and city life in general that many would be scared to tell - and those truths come right from Pinero's poetry (read A Lower East Side Poem, the part where he says:

"A thief, junkie I have been
Committed every known sin"

then later:

"I am the philosopher of the criminal mind
a dweller of prison time
a cancer of Rockefeller's Ghettocide"

Stunning! (What's funny is that as I write this, Sonya Sotomayor is on 60 Minutes, and while I am sure she's a wonderful woman, the contrast between a Puerto Rican like her and one like Pinero - it's irony is not lost on me, but who's to say her life was any more meaningful than Pinero's? Yet I'm sure many would have you believe that. Viva Pinero!)

One last thing: I am not the world's biggest Benjamin Bratt fan...but he's incredible in this.

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