Change Your Image
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Reviews
La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
Who is good or bad?
I feel without pretext it's hard to side on anyone's side immediately.
That is why I fell on the French side.
First we are shown the natives murdering the occupiers, then bombing, shooting down, and running over innocent civilians...
It feels the only crime of the French soldiers is them preserving their status quo. MLK's non violent protests start not too long into the future... is murder necessary for revolution?
Admittedly the French soldiers seem aggressive, and the civilians seen racist, but then don't most people react angrily to a representative of someone if that representative does harm? Those days were already segregated, black and white.
Occupation is wrong but murder of the innocents is not right. There must have been a better way...
Still an incredible production. Feels like watching the real thing.
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
This is the life...
Did you expect anything else?
Monotony. They live within four walls that change every night. Rock and roll is almost between the lines. But such is life, it's what you make of it. And I like it!
A true spark of your soul will tell you whether this is something you like or don't like... for me, this is the life. Besides the smell of the room you are there, and what a beautiful place it seems to be.
Love (2015)
What are man and woman to each other?
A woman brings a man to life, makes a man feel human, otherwise he is mud and dust. Women make our hearts beat and continue to beat.
I cannot speak for women.
Woman are independent, made of iron. Is this a facade? Partly true? Something about man seems to grab a woman's soul and makes it warm.
The entire movie feels like context for the final image of them in the bath, holding each other. It's such a powerful image to me it feels almost biblical... forget what you do, how you look, what your personality is like, because we are all flesh, bones, blood and soul. Their positions at the end fit like a puzzle, forming a circle, for man and women are complete together - the circle of life. There is no greater reason to live than for someone else.
I really felt that at the end.
Interstellar (2014)
Bigger than cinema...
If anyone has been left with powerful feelings after this please get in touch. But not powerful in an emotional sense, but in a 'I have to change the world' sense. Apart from Avengers Endgame this is the only movie that has made me feel like that. Many of Nolan's movies are seismic in theme like 'save the world' and no greater than here. But surely this is the greatest adventure of them all that probably gets even better with age. Most importantly, it's a film about love and hope, the 'unknowables' of life.
Help me change the world!!!
For those bickering about the science are truly unlucky to not enjoy such a piece. It's not about being 100% clear or making sense but capturing a story and emotion and taking your mind someplace else, someplace challenging ... I give it a 9 out of 10 only because every movie ending is a new beginning, just like here, it can never be complete. Cooper riding off to his new home is just the start of another exciting adventure destined and charged by love and hope.
Marathon Man (1976)
Not 'The Graduate'?
For some reason I just assumed this film would be similar to 'The Graduate', but regardless... great movie but no real justice! Unless someone convinces me, there has been a mistake in how it ended. To really get the bad guy, even in a film, you must deliver him on the silver platter of the law of the people. How come this Nazi dies at his own hand? It left me feeling sick. A satisfying ending nearly came; if only the entire block had recognised him and served real justice. Because that's the overriding theme anyways isn't it? The damn Nazis! Give em what they get. When the woman cried his name out I got the chills big time. Instead I am left with blue balls.