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• Nicki M

  
  Good movie. Have been seeing this going cheap on Blu ray for a while now. Was tempted to buy it, but glad I watched it on tv instead, as I don't know that it is a movie I would want to watch again. (though I did like it). It's pretty much a movie about unhappy people. I… More
  Good movie. Have been seeing this going cheap on Blu ray for a while now. Was tempted to buy it, but glad I watched it on tv instead, as I don't know that it is a movie I would want to watch again. (though I did like it). It's pretty much a movie about unhappy people. I could see what they were aiming for with the parallels. Ie, Michelle Williams plays a working mum who doesn't have enough time to spend with her family. Meanwhile the Filipino nanny is working for her, practically raising her daughter, while she misses her own little boys at home in the philippines. I found both these women sympathetic. Less so the husband. The story about what happens to the young son of the nanny is horrific. I think the stories were a comment on life today and priorities, but I couldn't get the point about the husband. So he cheats with a young girl and gets away with it. Were we meant to pity him in some way? I certainly didn't! Overall a good movie which maybe I didn't quite get, but good acting and great soundtrack.

• Emil K

  
  What a fresh change in direction of filmmaking from Director/writer Lukas Moodysson who finally hits the right notes with this touching piece of art. Mammoth is a film that shakes you and leaves you shattered. I honestly do not remember when i've seen film which has so much to… More
  What a fresh change in direction of filmmaking from Director/writer Lukas Moodysson who finally hits the right notes with this touching piece of art. Mammoth is a film that shakes you and leaves you shattered. I honestly do not remember when i've seen film which has so much to say about the life itself. Moodysson makes so many great points here when he portrays families and the busy parents whose children are victims of their absence. This is one of the truly great films about family and it's importance. There is nothing that feels staged, artificial or even acted here. It is like a true slice of life. Director Moodysson's career has been quite interesting and sort of a rollercoaster ride. His films has always been uncompromising works of art. Sometimes he has went too far with his shocking subjects, like in his A Hole In My Heart, which came close to exploitation, and same goes for his uneven Lilya 4-Ever. He also made one of a kind experimental-film, Container, which was completely in it's own league as a film and was closer to a dreamlike poem. Still it ended up being in my opinion a incoherent and artsy mess. He also made much loved Together and Show Me Love that were loved by audiences and critics. Even the great Ingmar Bergman once said that Moodysson is Sweden's hope as a director. What surprises me, is the fact that i have never liked that much of Moodysson's films, until of course now. Mammoth feels so much more adult and balanced work from him. It is like he has finally got over from that urge to shock audiences and is focusing to tell a great story. I give credit to Moodysson for his fearless attitude. He has never made films to entertain audiences. He is more of a storyteller who is worried about us humans. Mammoth is a grim film and even shocking at times, but this time there is a blink of hope underneath all the sadness and uncertainty. This is a film that everyone should see.

• Jan Marc M

  
  Fragmented, but coherent, Mammoth comparatively narrates domestic drama in different social-cultural settings. Heaving with stereotypes, Mammoth concluded in accomplishment of imparting a definite set of emotions with the audiences.

• Stefanie C

  
  'Where do all the children play?' Disregard the film synopsis. These interwined stories, from varying cultural standpoints, confront and question post-modern values. The pursuit of money to better our lives and childrens' exacts a high price. Each character… More
  'Where do all the children play?' Disregard the film synopsis. These interwined stories, from varying cultural standpoints, confront and question post-modern values. The pursuit of money to better our lives and childrens' exacts a high price. Each character determines if the cost is worth it. This film's direction, symbolism and 'message' is far from subtle.

• Christopher H

  
  The film is gritty, with all the characters interrelated, yet somehow all unrelated. A thought provoking film from Lukas Moodysson in his first English piece as writer and director.

• Daisy M

  
  Mammoth was the story of a rich New Yorker couple and their daughter and their nanny and her family. The one thing the woman, the man, and the nanny all have in common were the sacrifices they made for their kids. The couple, both had very successful jobs, and the nanny worked in the… More
  Mammoth was the story of a rich New Yorker couple and their daughter and their nanny and her family. The one thing the woman, the man, and the nanny all have in common were the sacrifices they made for their kids. The couple, both had very successful jobs, and the nanny worked in the US to earn money for her kids in the Philippines. Each of the actors were superb, Gael García Bernal was simple marvelous in his role as Leo and Michelle Williams portrait a successful surgeon who was very sentimental active in her job. The story sounded a bit like in the style of Babel and Crash,but this movie was in some ways a more intimate version of that kind of storytelling.

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