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Carol (2015)
A slow burn of the times. Stunning.
So many people have reviewed this movie without any knowledge of the times, the writer, the book and, I have to note, what it was to be homosexual in an era that could see you end up involuntarily committed and having electro-convulsive therapy. To this I say, yes, it is slow at many points but if you go to watch it knowing that it is 1950-52, you also know that McCarthyism is ruling the land on 'subversion' and it can be no other way. The slow burn is exactly what I expected. If you go to watch it with this in mind, you will not be disappointed.
Many reviewers have called Carol a predator and that there was nothing in the meeting in the store other than Carol getting what she wanted. So you just casually met your partners did you and weren't attracted to them until they did something extraordinary for you?? They both saw each other and wanted each other. At no time did I feel Carol was a predator. I thought they were both getting exactly what they wanted.
Some reviewers have criticised the happy ending as such a thing would not have happened in the 1950s. Once again, I feel that these reviewers are only showing their ignorance of homosexuality and history. Books of the time did not have happy endings because society didn't accept that there could be happy endings. In real life there were many happy endings. The book was a seminal piece by Patricia Highsmith, for many reasons, but it was the first lesbian novel to have a happy ending. I am both elated, that I got to feel first hand what it would have been like back then, but grateful that I was born in a more accepting time.
The movie was slow, this I can't deny, but taken in context, based on a book written in the times the movie portrays, the movie was stunning. Another reviewer in here said that they rate a movie on how much they think about it later. I have to agree.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
the shorts showed promise - complete Hollywood trash
Here they had a chance to make a worthwhile and useful statement about global warming. The special effects were great. They have gone to all this trouble to develop the set and then they COMPLETELY RUIN the delivery. Everything else was utter crap. B grade acting, plot, overall movie. I don't care how many time they destroy New York but it would be nice if once in my lifetime they could make it meaningful. I feel like this will never happen.
They are paying studios a fortune to make this crap and you are choosing to waste your money to watch it.
Two hours of your life you will never get back.
I Am Legend (2007)
nothing but a Will Smith vehicle - all wrapping, no substance
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. The idea was good. It had the possible makings of a cult movie and then the film started. When it finished I was left wondering what happened to the rest of it. Did I nod off? The special effects were fantastic but there is stopped. It is nothing but Will Smith strutting around a movie set doing whatever HE thought might make him look good. It has nothing going for it. No body, no structure. A huge disappointment and I am thinking --- WHO do they show these movies to before they release them ... they spend all this money, and it's YOUR money, on trashy will smith primp pieces. Don't bother wasting your money.
Un secret (2007)
This is an excellent movie
It's worth noting, if you have read other comments, that the people who have bad mouthed it actually had no idea what was going on, why things happened and who was who. I find this "solidly" irritating.
This movie was great from start to finish. Tania is married to Robert. Robert is Hannah's brother. So Tania and Hannah are sisterS-in-law. From first meeting, Maxime is mesmerized by Tania and who wouldn't be. As Louise says "... I find her desirable ...". Cécile De France is superbly cast as Tania and every credit to the film makers for making her that object of desire in every scene. This alone makes the movie a delicious treat. I have not read the book. The movie is a tragedy of war and a masterpiece of the senses.
Spoilers follow: Robert is sexy enough himself, there is no reason to suspect that Tania would ever wander. Robert is sent to a POW camp early on, so WE know he's not likely coming back ... but THEY do not. Hannah has seen the way Maxime looks at Tania but Tania makes it perfectly clear to Maxime that nothing is going to happen between them. However, Hannah doesn't know this. Hannah is a young mother with quite normal insecurities and a little irrational jealousy. Hard to avoid these feelings when you see Cécile in this movie. Any woman would be jealous. Maxime's devotion to his wife and son are never in question over his simple obsession with Tania. He loves his wife, he lusts after Tania.
Maxime also alienates Hannah's parents by refusing to register as a Jew. Hannah goes behind Maxime's back and registers herself.
The tragedy lies in Hannah's doubts and subsequent anger over what she "thinks" Maxime "feels" for Tania. This is compounded when her parents are transported.
When she finds out that Tania will also be in their hiding place, she becomes even more frustrated at her position and doesn't want to leave Paris. Her act of "outing" herself as a Jew is simple rebellion and disobedience directed at Maxime. Nothing more. Herein lies the awful tragedy of the war. The major point to remember here is that as you sit watching this unfold, YOU know immediately what will happen to her and Simon, but she did not. The full horror or the holocaust was not revealed until after liberation so none of these people can know their fate in reality. At worst, she probably thought she would meet up with her parents somewhere else. At best she was showing Maxime she would do as she pleased.
This tragedy was the highlight of the movie for me. It was such a simple act of disobedience that changed everyone's lives forever.
It is a haunting wonderful film that leaves you thinking about it long after it has finished.