City Island (2009)
6/10
Not bad, not great, mostly entertaining, but containing one disgraceful element
6 July 2023
I enjoyed this movie, and felt it deserved a rating of between 6 and 7, but one pretty irritating thing nudged me in the direction of the lower number. There were at least a couple points in the movie (not going to specify so as to avoid the inclusion of spoilers), in particular at times which were supposed to be emotionally moving, that the music blatantly copied a very famous Chinese song which was popularized by Teresa Teng (Deng Lijun), namely "The Moon Represents My Heart." However, no mention of this was to be found in the credits. Instead, full credit for the music and orchestration was claimed by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek and Dylan Maulucci. That's on them and them alone, as it's likely that no one else involved with the movie had any clue about it. Makes me wonder how much of the rest of "their" music was pilfered. Lazy, disgraceful and unnecessary.
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