Change Your Image
seamus-scanlon
Reviews
Where Are You Taking Me? (2010)
Evocative and Elegiac
'Where Are You Taking Me?' by award winning director Kimi Takesue is a low key observational style documentary that holds our attention from the opening sequence taken from the ideal observational redoubt of a hotel window balcony. The uncensored and unobtrusive view captures the poetry around the rhythm of daily urban life in a large African metropolis. Subsequent sequences are on ground level (or lower). Close and far. Observed and unobserved.
The dialog is minimal. The images are the message. The only real verbal exchange on film is between the film maker and the boy who asks 'Where Are You Taking Me?'
I really loved the sequence of the impromptu gymnasts and the closing encounter with the school children which provide a moving end. They and the movie linger long in the memory.
Inside Man (2006)
Atrocious movie
This film is atrocious. What a waste of money,time,film, popcorn etc. Avoid like the plague. The whole set up is so outlandish that I am amazed anyone made this film or acted in it or went to watch it. It must be mass hysteria or else there is something wrong with me. The moving going public must be seriously dulled to be voting for this turkey. Watched it in Harlem and everyone laughed at it. Well done to the people who voted this as terrible despite the massive media coverage. Spike Lee is highly overrated as is this movie. What was Jodie Foster doing in this? I admire her work but this is tedious and trite in the extreme. I was glad to escape with my brain intact.