Did David Lynch
created two stories connecting them with the name Camilla Rhodes, did he
presented some dream or subconscious of Diane Selwyn it will remain a riddle in
my head, but the movie is for sure memorable, and uniquely presented. I did
love the song Llorando, and for me it is the most representational part of the
movie, the song is just carved into my heart. The woman is collapsing, but
still her voice continues while the girls are crying touched from the lyrics
and its representation “I’m crying for your love, which is now gone somewhere
else”. As if they are realizing and expecting the second part of the film, the uglier
part, which comes shortly after. It is not a film that you can see every week,
but it is a film of whom you will be talking about during after parties with
people.
Polish – French
production, European style…which is a bit difficult to watch, but extraordinary
twist at the end. Although it lacks that open space cadre, it’s a bit closed
and dark, but all European movies have that. At first the arrival of Ethan Hawke
(the troubled writer) in Paris, to see his daughter was just a sequence of his “mental
illness” that didn’t even go noticed. But a sympathetic feeling from the audience
of a poor man, his wife is such a bitch who divorced him, fly over the ocean
just to separate him from his child, or is it something more to the story? He writes letters to his 6 year daughter every day, promising soon to be together, and to compensate for lost time. The
progress of the story also didn’t indicate any soon resolution to his problem,
although he was trying desperately. He found a place to stay in a suspicious
and poor café in, found a job in an even more bizarre place… and almost at the
same time he meets two woman, or two woman shows interest in him, which gives
you the sense that he just might get out of his mess, and reestablish his life again… the first one young Polish girl, the works in the cafe, and the second mature elegant and mysterious that lives on the fifth. He spend time with both of them and upuntil the very end he realizes that the one of them is a pure figment of imagination, his alter ego. More so that she is the
initiator for resolving his fears in a most extreme way. The other woman, the
real one is a stone or element that gives balance to the story, and to his sanity. When he realizes
his “sickness” and his behavior from it, from his alter ego he chooses the only logical thing for
saving his daughter, saving her from him... he chooses to leave.
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?
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.
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?!
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.
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”.
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
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!
German film, about a silent and meticulous
young man, by the name of Karl, who is given a second job from his boss, just
to make him realize how valuable he is. To encourage his ambition of becoming more
and wanting to become more in life. There, he meets another man (Hans) that
will change his perspective of life. He will become his best friend, and will release
him of his own severity. At first Karl will hesitate about this new friendship,
but then he’ll accept with arms wide open. They will briefly separate and fight,
because of a girl, the same girl that he sees for the first time in a disco,
before the second job. He will see he same girl later as his new friend’s
girlfriend. But true friends overcome
everything, and they reconcile before he (Hans) gives him (karl) a blessing to
go after the woman he loves, in this case Hans’s ex.
British movie, in British stile (comedy in
stile) :D Precise and old school assassin just before his 55-th birthday meets
a woman so challenging, that he decides to guard her, instead of obey his
clients and kill her. Along the way young man, comes along and becomes his apprentice.
The second most wanted assassin, brutal and sadistic prick will come after
them, and loose naturally. At the end, the girl (the wild target) will soften
his resigned heart and become the mother of his child, the child that’s going
to keep the family tradition and name in the future.
Three best friends are gathering every night in
the same bar, and complaining about each others bosses. One of them is a psycho,
the other one is a female molester blackmailing her assistant to sleep with
her, and the third one is a pure jackass, and a tool. The story culminates when
the tree buddies after a horrible and worst day at the job possible, decide to
kill their bosses. Comedy increases as they search “guidance” for how to kill
them from a black man in a bar. :DD Somehow they unintentionally turn their
bosses on each other, at least one of them, the psycho on the tool, and that is
the right formula for getting rid of them. The third boss is taken care of
sweetly, exactly the way she did on her employ.
Group of unsatisfied
young people, one samurai and the other cowboy, combine their knowledge of
battle and will for revenge against the most vicious leader known to the world.
They both are lead by family honor and hunger for righteousness. In a way the
red army of Nicola (the vicious leader) reminds me of a battle between the east
and west, and the fight for freedom that the capitalist counties always like to
emphasize when they talk about “democracy”. So the vicious leader is exactly
that, a man who keeps people under his control, a tyrant who suppresses and pours
blood, all over the country, who keeps the poor people in fear just to rule. Nicola
is also enriched with nine assassins which are obstacles that the two warriors
need to vanquish, to get to him. Bartender plays the trigger person, who will join
the two warriors together, lead them, and merge them with an army of like-minded
rebels. The drifter (one of the revenges) at the end will see that to be able
to kill the dark power (Nicola), will have to die himself as well, that, there
is no revenge without any losses and consequences. Good always prevails if you
have pure heart, at the end.
Dancing and moving and inspiring staff, the
story is old news, but the vibe of it it’s great. You just want to stand and
dance after. Something like the first part (Step Up), smart talented individual
that lives in a rough neighborhood gets a chance to study at one of the most
prestigious dancing schools in NYC. Naturally the first step was getting in the
school, with an explanation that that sort of talent and street dancing (which
the eminent professors don’t even count as dance) can be used with hard work to
become as the perfection they want to achieve. A dilemma in this young individual
mind is growing, should she stay in the hood as faithful member of her dance
group, or should she try and make it in the new environment, with new people,
new ideas and more subtitle way of dance. She gets cast out, and even expelled from
the school, as bed influence. The competition, called “the streets”, on which
her ex dancing group is a five time winner in a roll, is the right challenge
for her and her new school friends, not only to prove to herself to her ex
friends, but also to prove to herself that she can make it all, no matter what.
She wins, gets the respect back, and her way to school again.
Film which transfers the “rising up again”
concept, showing us a woman in her late 30-ies, struggling to get her life back
around. Her best friend’s engagement and preparation will set her of track a
bit, she will have a break down, or as they putted in the movie, she will hit
bottom. The fact that she’s supposed to be the main maid of honor will only
accelerate her “bottomness”, or recovery. She, after loosing all of her money
in cake business and boyfriend at the same time, is barely living a
satisfactory life. Her income now is from a job that her mom found for her,
which is just to pay rent, her “lover” is a dick which uses her only for his
good time, and she knows it, but is just in the faze of accepting her misery. So
she keeps hoping that his idiotic behavior is because they agree on some
“terms” about their non obligation relationship, and finds it excusable. Moreover
there comes long a cute policeman, who finds her great just the way she is, and
because of her wrong momentarily perspective of life, drives him away. On top
of all that, there is a threat from this other bridesmaid, who is new figure in
her bff’s live, to loose the “first” place in the heart of the only stable
person that she knows, her now engaged friend. The other woman just drives her
crazy, and actually she is the catalyst of her reaching the bottom stage. With
all the bridesmaids activities and plannings she, the other woman always wins,
partly because she is rich and knows people, and mostly because she is doing it on purpose, to make our heroine look bad. You have to reach lowest point of
life, loose your self-esteem and then start again, fresh. You need to get over
the changes, and in the process you have to try not to demoralize to the point of
not even liking yourself. That's this story, bridesmaids were the one that made her feel bad, but actually they were the ones that made her realize the everyday straggle in live, and acceptance of change during it.
Woody Allen film, and as usual his concept in a
characteristic way, draws you to the most essential questions in life. Happiness
above all, is the moral to this story. The question that runs till the end is:
should we be satisfied with just OK version of our life, or should we try and
seek for the love and happiness which we know we deserve?! Midnight in Paris shows exactly that.
Through the eyes of Hollywood writer, in love with the city, we see a man who
at first is not completely satisfied with his work, and live with an illusion
that there was a time in the past (early twenties) where everything was wonderful
and charming. He, one night starts to
walk in the city, gets lost, and at midnight somehow travels in his favorite
time. There he meets his greatest heroes and inspirations. Not only that, but there,
he learns about passion and love, and courage to do what’s in your heart. Most importantly
he learns that no time is better then yours, you just have to live it with full
lungs, no regrets and wonders how if?!
Story about two people driven by fate, who are meant
to meet with each other, so that they could fall in love and conquers all obstacles
of life. Young man, after loosing his family and his house, joins the circus to
be able to survive, as a vet. There is where he meets the girl of his dream,
also without any family, but also the wife of the circus manager. He’s been
given a chance to work with her, when an elephant is brought in as an attraction
to the circus. His job title is a boy that gives water to elephants. The circus
manager, who is a vicious man, smells the love between his wife and this young
individual and casts him away. Justice was made, by the other workers, who also
have a grudge with the manager. They let all of the animals and create a chaos,
killing in the process every bad bodyguard there. The young couple fights to be
together, poetically after the struggle with her husband, almost loosing her
life, the elephant gets to the manager and kills him.
Talented girl needs to find her way back into
the world. She finds herself lost, after her mother dies and leaves the only passion
which she knows (skateboarding), to help and take care of her father. Money is
tight, so she is by pure luck, gets to work in the mountains for very rich folks.
Because of her affinity towards skateboarding, she tries to relax on snowboard
as well. Romance is developing with the rich son. As in all rise up’s, she gets
the slap one more time, just to make her even more strong and decisive about
her future and commitment to the one thing she always like, boarding. At the
end she gets the rich son and the first price on the snowboarding contest, and
with that actually she finds her way back. ;)
Super cool drama! Young man is living imaginary
life that he is a super hero, which helps the ones in need. When he’s out there
the streets are safe. His mind is so brilliant, that the only person, who is
able to see that, is his brother’s new girlfriend, which is a “weirdo” herself.
Her ability to make his 6 year old imaginary world even better makes him a
stronger man in reality, ready to take risks, and continue with the struggle against
evil on the street. And the greatest power of all is to become invisible, what
he in his mind succeeds, when the girl shows. She is the missing component to
the secret ingredient of invisibility.
It looks like they made the movie just to
promote J.T. and to show his “actor” skills. I guess he is one of Americas multi-talented individuals :)) with every movie he gets better and better, and get bigger and bigger roles :))) Read the title and you don’t need
any explanation. I am a fan of easy movies, the ones you can watch with your boyfriend/girlfriend
and not involving to much thinking. Man and woman meet, become friends, good company,
decide to become sex buddies on accessions, fall in love, of course there is a scene
where she gets mad at him, and then he realizes that she was the one all along :DD
a grand come back, involving dancers,
honest acknowledgment of his love and stupidity…bla bal babalal…it finishes
with hug and kiss scene. I admit, that it is a cute movie, and that I’ve seen
worst acting from “professional” actors, so I’ll give it a chance ;)
