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The Iron Lady (2011)
What a beautiful, touching movie
It's been quite a while that I've seen a movie that touched me so profoundly. Yes, Meryl Streeps performance is not from this earth. But it is not just her, who is contributing in making a very good movie. The dramatic structure of the film is nearly perfect: the calm, depressing, melancholic scenes in Thatcher's present home in contrast to her everyday fight during her political life. Very impressive. If you are interested in the British political system and important events of the 70ies and 80ies, you are going to like this even more. For me a great recommendation that gives an impressing insight into a fascinating and controversial character. Well done!
Profile of Fear (2011)
B-movie, but A recommendation
A guy struggles with his fear to be a loser. He desperately wants to prove to himself, his family, his girlfriend that he can be a success on his own. Without the help of his father. He enters a development scheme with Scotland Yard but instead of proving that he is a success, he realizes that it is actually not success, he is looking for... Sounds a bit weird, I know, and somehow it is. But - and this makes this little B-flick really interesting - the main character's desperation is so convincing that you just want to know how he manages to get over his problems. Also a very nice idea: The whole story is wrapped and interrupted by a fairy tale about fear. I can't second other reviewers critique about bad acting. I think all the actors do a good, some even a very good job. The only reason I have to subtract a star is the fact that the whole visual concept is not really working out. Yes, this is a B-movie (cheap movie), but some decisions about the look of this film remain incomprehensible.
Cosmopolis (2012)
What a bad movie.
This kind of movie happens, if too many wanna-be intellectuals with pretentious ambitions come together. It does not necessarily bother me that this movie basically consists of endless dialog. We've seen other classics, like "Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf", which show that lots of talking at one single place can actually work very nicely. The basic problem is what the characters talk. Though there might be some truth buried, dialogs are pretentious gibberish which are supposed to show us how bad the world is. Sorry, doesn't work, because never any line nails it. So neither image (it's boring like hell), nor dialog (it's pretentious crap), nor characters (none of them seems real) seem real. What remains? Nothing. That is the problem with this movie. It was very, very hard for me to watch it through the end.