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Lilja 4-ever (2002)
so sad a movie!
This is such a sad and cruel film! I, as a student of Russian language and being fond of Russian culture, am so dismayed and feel so weak when seeing such a poor and hopeless situation displayed about Russia. Anyway, as the guy from Ghent (Belgium) wrote, we cannot do without it! Situations like that depicted in this excellent movie are disarming, still overwhelming modern societies, where people are more used to material things up to the worst and degrading ones - such as, sex at whatever price and the "use" of a person's body as though ti was a mere object!... - and less and less to the inner values and sorrows of human beings, their essence, which goes beyond the physical features and touches the soul and everything which is affecting it. Economic crisis aside and all the negative problems stemming from it (herein, exploitation of young folks, whether girls or boys), the Russian people has still a little of something the individualistic money-driven "Western societies" have not anymore: natural values and whatever is linked to them, such as persons as incarnated souls, well before than physical human beings. On this side, we the citizen of the so-called "Western countries" have a lot to learn from the more eastwards (Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians...) Slavic people, instead of merely imposing them our "values".
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
good propagandistic musical! :)
I happened to see this movie twice or more and found it well made! WWII had freshly ended and the so-called "Cold War" was about to begin. This movie could, therefore, be defined as one of the best "propaganda", patriotic movies preparing Americans and, secondly, people from the still to be formed "Western NATO block" of countries to face the next coming menace. The movie celebrates the might of the US, through the centuries, while projecting itself onwards to the then present war, which had just ended. Nice and funny is the way of describing the discovering of the American Continent by Columbus and pretty the "espisode" of New Amsterdam and the purchasing of Manhattan from a drunk local Indian .. Must see it (at least once, for curiosity of fashion of propaganda through time)! :)
Red Dawn (1984)
a good propagandist movie
I've seen this movie two or three times and rated it movie 10, because I think it's a well made one. I am perfectly aware that the story is paramount unrealistic and forced one. It's a good example of propaganda, showing that even in a democratic country heavily propagandistic and jingoistic films are likely to pop up once in a while... The US were about to win the so-called "Cold War". Still, there was someone reckoning the imminent victory not to suffice.. Another nice propagandist - this time well placed with the then historical realistic menaces hovering over the World - is "Where do We go from Here?" (1945; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038245/), starring Fred MacMurray.