The Burning Season - The Chico Mendes Story [VHS]
by John Frankenheimer
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Actor: Carmen Argenziano, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Luis Guzm?n, Raul Julia, Sonia BragaDirector: John Frankenheimer
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 123 minutes
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of The Burning Season - The Chico Mendes Story [VHS]
Movie Review: Raul Julia tries to save the rainforest.
Summary: 2 Stars
My only reason for seeing this film was because Luis Guzman is in it.
Raul Julia plays "Chico Mendes", a true story of a man who tried to save his people in the Amazon Rainforest. A story that needed to be told, but this film is overlong and slow-moving.
I do believe the rainforests should be saved and destroying them should be stopped.
Instead of decreasing them, the forests should be expanded.
The rainforests are beneficial to our weather and to th humans and wildlife there. Flowers in the rainforests have been used for medical research and medicine that can not be found anywhere else.
What would happen if land was just roads, concrete, buildings and desert. I think if a patch of unhistoric desert is bare, just plant trees there. It would look nicer than a vacant lot. It is trees that tranform our air into what we can breathe. I think trees and water play an importence in bringing forth rain as well. If you have ever lived in a drought area, you would know what I mean.
During filming of this tv-movie, Raul Julia got food poisoning from sushi. He was air lifted to a hospital. He had lost weight and was weakened by his condition. That same year, he filmed Street Fighter (Widescreen Extreme Edition)(1994) and then his last film, Down Came a Blackbird [VHS] (1995-tv).
In October 1994, after attending an opera, he had stomach pains. Later that night, he suffered a stroke. He went into a coma and fours days later died from a brain hemorrhage.
If you like Raul Julia, see him in The Morning After (1986).
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