Raul Aranguiz Borgeaud This is for sure the worse movie I have ever seen. I just want to warn you. I can't believe that actors like García Bernal or Williams accepted a script like that. I just made an account to help you avoid even thinking about it. Trust me, you don't want to loose exactly 2 Hrs. looking at a film that shows how our third world countries are screwed, without taking any position about it. I appreciate that someone visits this countries and gets so impressed that he wants to make a movie about it. It seems that this particular director has gone to Thailand, smoke something with the surfers that he met, and forgot what he was doing (But he recorded them to remember the killer party he had).When you thought he was going to change dramatically the course of the story, he just reinforced the idea of the typical bad things that happen anywhere but in Sweden and USA. Maybe is informative for someone that doesn't understand how people live overseas, but you can't make a movie without a script that has a

nwerle-3 watch this movie if you are not able to sleep, it will cure your insomnia, phillipine expat life is not like they showed! this could have been a 30 minute TV show.the people know what the world is, the ones in the movie were spoiled.many are happy just to have a roof over their head and something to eat.movie did not show how the guy got a trip to Thailand, seems he is clueless about life.hookers in real life in Thailand do not look beautiful, they look like drug addicts. these were actresses. his grammar is ridiculous, his wife would not make enough to have a nanny or other things.go ahead and enjoy the sex trade think how your daughters will be the replacement

tieman64 Since the development of Marx's critique of bourgeois society, the purpose of critical social theory has been to clarify how the economic forces that made possible the rise of modern capitalism exact costs that cannot be grasped in terms of political economy. Today, however, it has become more and more difficult to contend that individuals, social groups, and societies as entities, pay a price for economic progress (capitalism is expert at "outsourcing" suffering). Man has been acclimatized to his world, and resistance to the notion that there is no viable alternative to today's (laissez faire or otherwise) economic policies, has shrunk to the so-called "anti-globalisation movement". These critics usually stress that today's policies result in various forms of injustice and alienation, and violate many of the very values western democratic societies purport to embody.Lukas Moodysson's "Mammoth" aims to paint a portrait of life under twenty first century globalisation. It opens on Leo and Ellen Vidales, a wealthy Manhattan couple whose eight year old daughter, Jackie, is entrusted to a live in nanny called Gloria. Leo, a video game designer, epitomises our perpetually wired, yet wholly cocooned, media savvy generation. Emotionally and intellectually stunted, but always plugged in, he leaves his family indefinitely to travel to Thailand. There he hopes to sign a multi-million dollar contract with a big software company. The borders of finance are not only being redrawn, but eradicated. Leo travels across the globe to sign a cheque.An emergency room surgeon, Ellen's world is equally cold. Patients come in, she treats them, and they're shunted away. She returns home to an apartment as sterile as her hospital walls. Always working, she rarely sees her daughter or husband. Mirrored to the Vidales is Gloria, the couple's live in nanny. She slaves away in America only to send money back home to her children in the Phillippines. Like the Vidales, Gloria is alienated from her family. Unlike the Vidales, she earns scraps. While Jackie's father and mother are away, Jackie and Gloria grow close, each hoping to assuage loneliness. And so a mother seeks a surrogate child, a child a surrogate mother.Meanwhile, in Thailand, Leo hooks up with Cookie, a prostitute who sells her body to earn money for her own impoverished child. Leo then returns home after having confronted the dark underside of his life's Mobius strip. He hugs his wife and child, but nothing changes. The film ends on a note as dispiriting and depressing as everything that went on before.All artists want to say great things, but great art tends to speak invisibly, its messages disguised, almost imperceptible. "Mammoth" is well meaning but contrived, obvious and didactic, Moodysson constantly talking down to his audience. As a comparison, see Olivier Assayas' "Summer Hours", and his duology of "Demonlover" and "Boarding Gate", two trashy B movies which cover similar ground. Some other better films about globalisation: "Red Desert", "What Time Is It There?", "35 Shots of Rum", "Platform", "The Girlfriend Experience", "Miami Vice", "Syndromes and a Century", "Pulse", "L'Enfant", "Code46", "The Class" and late Romero/Chronenberg/Godard etc.If the film fails dramatically, it nevertheless captures the noxious alienation of Antonioni. Here, alienation is not just an undesirable by-product of techno-capitalism, but its very modus operandi. The film also captures a certain paradox of 21C life; its character's are increasingly connected, yet find themselves always moving farther and farther away from one another. The film's cast is weak, with the exception of actress Michelle Williams as Ellen. Williams made better, similarly themed films with "Wendy and Lucy" and "Land of Plenty".7/10 – Worth one viewing.

Raymond I was looking forward to seeing Mammoth because Moodysson seems to be one of the most interesting directors at the moment. I've yet to see Container and will probably pass Hole in My Heart for good, but all the other movies have deeply moved me.While Moodyssons other movies feel genuine and sincere, Mammoth felt a bit forced and clichéd. It was strangely detached from all characters and during the movie I was thinking if this is a conscious choice or not, as in his other movies you really feel like you are there and feel the characters every emotion. With Mammoth, I was left more as an observer.Moodysson also seems to be a bit out of his character with the huge global setting. Altho the set, locations and cinematography are top notch, especially the New York scenario and the family just don't seem believable. I had really hard time connecting to anything or anyone.I have to admit I've always thought both Williams and especially Bernal keep a bit of a distance from their characters. Williams delivers once in a while, but Bernal just feels like his not really acting a character, but rather just being himself. Or maybe he just acts the same role in all the movies I've seen from him.There is a bit of an Oscar vibe here too like there was with Babel and Crash, and it feels intentional. Everythings a bit too underlined and spoon fed. Many events are easily foreseen before they happen, and you're left with very few surprises. Most of the events go as awry as they can, and it gets a bit heavy with more then two hours of it.Not a bad movie, but too preachy and pretentious.