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Medea (1988)
one of the most schocking experience
Hardly ever a movie disturbed my emotions as much as Lars von Trier's Medea did. When I left the cinema I was unable to do anything for more than an hour but to think about the pictures I had seen and the tragic fate of Medea and her family. And that was not because I hadn't known the story before the screening but because of the paste and tone of the film as well as the superb acting of Kristin Olsen. I wonder if I can ever forget the scene when her older son gives her a robe to help her to complete her fatal task, or when the same boy goes after the younger one and brings him back so that he could be the object of their mother's revenge.
It is very sad that this Danish tv adaptation of this Greek play can hardly ever be seen. So film lovers in Budapest are really lucky that this year's Titanic Festival featured several films of Trier; including Breaking the Waves as well as Epidemic and Europe which also must be seen.
The Truman Show (1998)
Ddisappointing execution
I admit, I was prejudiced against Jim Carrey when I walked into the cinema. I had never been able to watch a whole movie with him playing in it. However I had hopes knowing that Peter Weir (Witness, The Mosquito Cost, Dead Poet Society etc.) directed the film. I also heard praises about the film.
Well, I watched this film all the way, and actually I had fun during the second half of it. The ideas were really promising, and the film had some moments, but the first part soap was far too long. People do not go to a cinema to watch daytime TV. It lacked acting too. The characters were playing soap actors and there is not much fun to watching that. And Jim Carrey, who supposed to be the real person in the show was no different from them. Sorry, this guy just cannot form a character because he is a bad actor. Weir should have noticed it since he had directed actors like Harrison Ford and Robin Williams before. Carrey's performance really hurt the film. No wonder the moment Ed Harris, who did a great job realising the allmighty producer of the show, started to dominate the film it got much better.
But on the whole this film belongs to the group of movies you can write a lot about because of the ideas behind them, but you don't want to see them for the second time. In film-making it is fine to have great ideas and be able to talk about them, but if when you have to go out you cannot make them really work then you missed the point.
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
A nice summer comedy with Ford finally playing a believable character again
It was a delight to Harrison Ford playing in an actually entertaining film after the Devil's Own and Air Force one. The only reason I did not leave the movie during those two playing was because of Mr. Ford's reliable performance. Air Force One was really a pity, because it started out quite well, but from about the half of it it flopped. As for the Devil's Own it was a real disappointment since Alan J. Pakula and Ford had done a great job in Presumed Innocent. 6D7N did not want to be anything else but a light summer comedy-romance-adventure and with all its shortcomings in the story it served this purpose very well. It had a good rhythm and music, the photography was impressive and both the supporting actors and leading characters delivered a very funny performance. Even though Ford did not look like 45 at all, more like 55, his masculinity and the character he played were convincing enough for him to be the right choice for woman who could have been his daughter. "We may be old, but sturdy." Ford is great in comedies and would be fun to see him in some more. However, once he said that he wanted to fall out of his leading hero role and become a character actor. Well, I cannot wait to see him playing such interesting personalities again as Allie Fox, Henry or Dr. Kimble.