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Atonement (2007)
Romola Garai makes this film outstanding
The reason why I like this movie so much is because of Romola Garai's character Briony Tallis. There are two very touching scenes with her. In one she get's criticized by a woman in a nurse school because she told a soldier that her name's Briony. "There is no Briony! Your nurse Tallis!" the woman shouts at her. When she's alone she says to herself "There is no Briony" like she feels as if someone had stolen her identity. In another scene she talks to a dying french soldier who thinks he has been in love with her. When he calls her Tallis she says passionately to him "Briony, je m'appelle Briony!". These scenes make "Atonement" to one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958)
Excellent thriller
This is one of the best thrillers I've seen. The music is excellent and the relationship between the detective and the little girl is just moving. The girl really seems to look the detective like some father figure. The movie also shows why men do such terrible crimes. He's married with an always bad tempered woman who always critizes him and never give's him a friendly word. It's easy to understand the murderers frustration but it would be better if he would speak to his wife or just leave her if she doesn't change her behaviour. Of course this isn't an excuse to kill a girl, because an excuse for such a crime doesn't exist.
Olivia (1951)
Excellent movie
I think this is was one of the best movies from the 50's. Is it touching to see the emotions in Olivia's face when she says under tears to her teacher that she loves her and later begins to cry in Julie's office when she calls her affection a "schimäre". The supporting characters are also excellent like the very strict but attractive Miss Riesener or the former pupil Laura, another beauty. I must also mention the dramatic wonderful film music.
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Excellent movie
This is an excellent but also mysterious movie. We never get to know the reason why Lucy (Emily Browning) offers herself naked to other men, it is even difficult to say if she's a happy person because she hardly shows any emotions. This reminded me about the movie "Jeune et Jolie" with Marine Vacth, a student working as a prostitute who shows as much emotions as Lucy which means almost none. However, Lucy is still a person you can sympathize with because she's very friendly to all peoples and says "Thank you" throughout the movie so much as almost no other movie character does (about nine times or more). I would recommend this movie to anybody because it makes you think about what lies beneath Lucy's reserved behavior. I'm glad the script writer didn't show her background completely, so the audience, as Emily Browning (an actress with interesting views by the way) said herself, has to do some thinking.
Bloomington (2010)
Excellent movie
This is an excellent movie. In my opinion the ending isn't so negative because Jackie mentions to Catherine that she has her number so they will probably meet or talk again to each other in the future. In most lesbian movies the couple separate without any hope of seeing each other in the future. I think that the good bye scene was the best of the movie because it was so artfully done. Jackie looks down and asks Catherine what she will do in the future. When Catherine answers Jackie looks up and has tears in her eyes which I found very moving. Jackie was also a very likable character because she was down to earth and not at all arrogant despite her star fame. Of course Catherine is also a nice person but she seemed to be more worried about people finding out she's a lesbian. However, she was the one who started the affair by kissing Jackie on the party just a few seconds after they met for the first time. In my opinion, this is one of the best lesbian movies. I give it 9 of 10 points because the ending could have been a bit more positive if they would have promised to meet again in the future for sure.
Carrie (1952)
This movie missed the point of Dreiser's novel
This movie clearly missed the point of Dreiser's novel which is that success doesn't always lead to happiness. So Dreiser's novel ends with the description of Carrie's unhappiness while in the movie you don't get the intention she was an unhappy person. Here in the movie she seems also more concerned for Hurstwood's financial problems after she left him while in the novel she asked him what his problems are but he refused any help and walked away without giving her the chance to help him. So the novel is far more depressing (and also better!) than this average movie which is otherwise good except from the last part but the book describes Hurstwood's tragic ending in a poverty house where he commits suicide in brutal honesty which you can't say of this movie. It's like a "softer" version of the book.
For Love of the Game (1999)
Excellent movie!!!!
"For Love of the Game" is a movie which shows how films should been made today. I'm not at all interested in baseball, but I was interested in the love story with its excellent dialogues, they were really funny and interesting. What's more, today you can hardly find an actress of the present who looks more beautifull than Kelly Preston and has also a very sympathetic and good sounding voice (original voice of course not synchronization voice!!!). We need more films like this one!!!!
The Country Girl (1954)
Wonderful movie
"The Country Girl" is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's very touching and it gives a realistic view an alcoholic has to fight with. All actors are excellent, especially Grace Kelly (Why wasn't she first choice for this role?!!) who surely deserved the oscar she received for her performance, proving that she was able to play a tragic character (She was surely right, when she said this was the first time she had the possibility to play a real film character where she wasn't used as a beautiful film decoration as in her other films I've seen). My recommendation: Watch it!!!