INCEPTION

This could be the second or the third time for me watching this movie, and then it occurred to me that it’s been years since I put my thought at this blog of mine. So here it is:

The idea is genius, I like it from the beginning to the end. The soul thought of something that can be initiated to someone else via mind manipulation is ancient from the time humans could think, but put it in a very creative way like this on the screen is even more exciting. I was expecting a twist at the end, to tell you the truth. I was hoping that the character of Cobb would trick Saito at the end that it was still some way of tricking him into reviling his company secrets, but this was ok ending to. 
The details when they sink deeper and deeper from one dream, to the next was super, especially the van flying moments parallel with the hotel scene with no gravity effect. Like the one idea is fully transferred in the next dream. Although I would expect the same outcome even in the third dream. But I assume that it would be difficult to film that.
 And especially I liked the last scene with the kids, when he rolled the humming top, basically telling us that the all movie was Cobb’s own dream. That he didn’t even woke up from it the all time. Which imposes the question did he even had a wife? Or did he even have children? Was Mal just a structure in his own design?
In my humbled opinion I would think that everybody will contemplate or sense the movie of its own way. And will get a different message then I. Take a breath and see if the world you created for yourself is real or not? Or is it just a figment of your deeper inner self?

Vier minuten (4 minutes)

Excellent story! Chris Kraus made an extraordinary choice combining the two actresses Hannah Herzsprung playing Jenny von Loeben and Monica Bleibtreu as Mrs. Kruger.

It all takes place in a women’s prison, where Mrs. Kruger gives piano lessons to the inmates.

Mrs. Kruger’s first impression of young Jenny is immediate rejection. She refuses to give lessons to a vulgar person that makes her own hands sore, but then in a state of rage, after almost beating an officer to death, young Jenny starts to play and Mrs. Kruger reconsiders. Then she sees the girl’s potential.

Mrs. Kruger character is shown as a senior teacher, very strict, with no respect for nothing but the beauty in classical music. Her fascination of this young women, this uncommonly “wunder kid” sort of, reminds her of a girl she used to know, a girl that she was in love with, and sow killed. Young Jenny got stuck in this place in her younger years. She was a victim of circumstances in life, abused by her father, sexually and psychologically, got involved with some boy, and ends up in prison for murder. There she got to a point where she doesn’t feel a thing for anything or anybody, blunt her emotions. This is where the piano teacher steps in. She offers Jenny guidance in making her better pianist, but not a better person. To do that she must listens to everything Mrs. Kruger says and not wanting anything in return. She specifically emphases the importance and beauty of music and the sacrifice that she will have to make for it. Enrolling her to the contest of young artist and working with her day by day, stage by stage, she makes the deviant young woman realizes the significance in life itself. This structure of bad young woman and old strict teacher became their thread in which they both see a way out. The young one as a glance of hope and the old one, as a way of leaving something worthwhile behind. As time goes by, they create a bond, unbreakable one. Even though there are some problems with convincing the warden to let her compete, Mrs. Kruger decides to act on her own anyway, and by doing so she releases herself of guilt that she wears since her youth. She didn’t do a thing then to save her love, but she is doing, correcting that mistake now, by secretly transporting Jenny to the competition.

The competition itself means freedom, for both, a moment of life, a pure pleasure, an explosion of emotions boiled in 4 minutes. The one by giving (making) that explosion, and the other one by receiving (achieving) it. 

Columbiana (2011)

The story about a vindictive assassin girl is not new, but this story definitely has some innovations. The character is built on a vengeance, and as we watch we sympathize all her actions. Her exquisite looks make the film even more attractive to watch. She kills fast, efficient, smooth, you can’t even see her moves, that how good of an assassin she is, and on the other hand, she had to alienate from everybody (boyfriend, uncle, grandmother) to become the best there is, and to find the one responsible for her transformation, her parent’s killer. She (Cataleya) the main protagonist, after seeing her parents get killed in front of her in their home in Bogotá, smartly runs away to her family in Chicago. There by the guidance of her uncle, she becomes top assassin. Although she learns how to be invisible, she didn’t learn to let her vengeance go. Witch is the catalyst of the all story. After each kill, she draws an orchid, her family emblem just to transfer a message to her parent’s killer that she didn’t forget, and she is coming. Eventually she gets the message through, action witch will doom her uncle and grandmother, casualties that she earlier didn’t understand will fall.

Some of the scenes are original, which I love and they are the ones that make this movie excellent, and exiting while you watch. The poll crossing with sharks in, was one of those scenes. At the end, she did the only thing that was in her mind ever since she was a child; revenge her family, but at what price?! She is now alone, and has no one, which poops the question, has it been really worth it?!

Bride Wars (2009)

Two best friends anticipate their own wedding from the age of 7, and been dreaming about it ever since, carefully planning and following the trends. One of them a teacher, quit, always let someone else to lead, and the other, strict, never backs down, determent, leader. Accidentally they both end up with the same date for their wedding, and their problems begin. They start to trick and back stab one another. The quiet one becomes fighter, cruel, and more aware of her submissiveness, which becomes a problem for her fiancée, and the other one, looses her compass, but finds it with her soon husband to be. Everything turns upside and down, and in order for everything to get back to normal, there has to be like in every story, break down, followed by fight between the two best friends on their wedding day, and then realization or admitting of each others fault, repenting for their foolishness. All ends up like it supposed to.   

Beastly

One of the hideous movies ever! I haven’t seen such a bad film, but this one goes to the charts:)) I dig the story, about finding the beauty from with in, but honestly, who wrote the script?! Who choose the actors?! Horrible producing! I wouldn’t recommend this movie not even to Golden Raspberry award. That is all what I have to say about this “peace of art”. 

Love, wedding, marriage

I didn’t like the movie at all! Young successful marriage councilor gets married just before she finds out that her role models, for eternal love, her parents, are getting a divorce! Their sacred marriage wasn’t so sacred after all. She is crushed, tries to reunite her parents, almost losses her new beloved husband. The “curtain of perfection” is off and she is trying to contemplate that. At the end like all American movies all goes well, and fixes, because love conquers all, her mother forgives her fathers infidelity twenty years ago, she reconcile with her prince as well, ad all live happily ever after. :D 

Lauberge Espaniol

Film that shows you a way where ambition can lead you! Young graduate must go to Barcelona, through the program Erasmus, to be able to find the satisfactory job. He leaves his girlfriend home in Paris, (with the thought that he will be back soon and pick up where he left off), and throws into an adventure of his life. As he flies in the plane, crying about leaving everything he loves and knows behind, that there is a moment that he is not aware, a moment of leaving his old life for real behind. He will never be the same again; he can’t or will not go back to his old self ever again. He arrives, meets young couple at the airport that helps him to get on his feet, at the very beginning, when he is lost in the new world that he is momentarily placed. As the film roles, the young Erasmus will blend in, learn the town, language, customs, and they will in a time become not a strange but his own, a part of his new character, a part of who he is, and will become. He will lose his girlfriend naturally, have the affair of his life, party of his life, friends and experience the most bizarre situations; in short he will experience life. After getting back home, it will be impossible to continue as before. His knowledge is eternal, forever and priceless. He is Erasmus till life!