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Tots els camins de Déu (2014)
This film succeeds in every way possible except to satisfy movie goers.
... Using Christian allegory to portray redemption of an older man through a younger man in a totally male way. The original title in Catalan, All the Ways of God, and the English title, The Ways of Man, are equality apt for different purposes, for the actions of the two men are exclusively male (with no hint of femininity) to come to terms with deep philosophical-moral quandary, i.e., think Nietzsche (male) versus Kant (female). All the Ways of God refers to a set of improbable coincidences to put the men together, to put them at odds with each by Hobbesian Man in a State of Nature, to bring them together by Lockean Social Contract, which cannot be explained satisfactorily by deterministic-physical laws.
One of the best films ever made that will scarcely be seen, for not that movie goers do not like plots with all action and little dialogue but prefer banality over substance.
Crash (2004)
Entertaining but nothing great
This movie was like a pastiche of scenes from Law and Order TV series. I like Law and Order, so this was okay for me. The "racist" cop risks his life to save the black(ish) woman, but the rare anti-racist cop kills the wayward Oreo boy, who happens to the the brother of a black detective played excellently by Don Cheadle who utters the best line of the movie: (On the difference between being "Mexican" or Puerto Rican and Salvadoran) "The mystery is: who gathered together all those remarkably different cultures and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns."
The style of plotting of this movie is similar to, but vastly inferior to, movies like Mulholland Drive, Memento and 11:14, but then also less taxing on the brains of a typical audience.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Snoozer
This is a film consisting of fluff and stuff with little more than pretty pictures and music, and a chance to catch some zzz's while the kids are entertained with another epic "action" drivel. In there somewhere, fortunately well hidden, or botched, as the case may be, is an anti-industrial message -- weren't the good olde middle ages so great. Boring, boring, boring.