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Le petit voleur (1999)
Yes!.. This is real
long time since I've seen this movie (probapsly about a year or two). You like spie-derr-man?! This is die-hard material. A very modern way of film making. The French aren't that trivial, you know, and I wouldn't like to be the protagonist of this feature. It's a joker in his adolescence years who boasts about his capabilities towards a girl of his age. He enters hard reality in his romantic egocentric young romantic view of the world. Criminality isn't that easy, you know. Myself, I've tried it (in a modest way: non organised stealing). But what this boy encounters puts yer nose down on the facts. No romanticised view on the world here! This is true! In the end you get to learn that debate is more constructive than doin'things by yourself. And all the while it's not a lesson!!!
Europa (1991)
the Horror
Marlon Brando is dead, but the horror continues... Hahaa! Either you fall asleep or find it haunting, I love the cinema of Europe today.
Especially von Trier. He un-com-pro-mi-sing-ly (difficult word for me) goes for what he thinks is important. I like that. Cinematography could use a little graveness, because today, in my humble opinion, 2 much emphasis is put on special computer effects and childish fantasy-put-on to-film. Cinematography is cool, but it is at it's best when it deals with (past) reality. 'Europa' does so, as it creates a haunting image of disastrous times we cannot imagine anymore. So screw the future, for it's too spacey. Gone disasters influence us, or at least in Europa...
It's history, man! better than fantasy
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Nice Propaganda to feed yer kids with
Look... It's like Disney pictures. You don't want to feed your kinds up decently, install them in front of a really huge TV-set with nice big blasts and corny stories. It's your placemat underneath a happy-meal. If you don't actively go out to search quality, there's always this.. in the face. What do you care... That's the way it goes. They put too much money in the big Hollywood machine and market it all over the world 'till it's right at everybody's front door. This much for the general box-office horror. This flick beats 'em all, really. From the despicable jealousy of Bennie-it's got no mind of it's own!-Affleck to the stupidity of FDR's uprising from his wheelchair (Jesus...). If you find this acceptable, then we definitely have to talk. I'm talking about civilization here! This film is about who gets the piece of ass (and when they both get it, it's no good either), and it's about getting even. Now those are very recognisable things in life, but the solutions to the problems are, in both cases, the easy way out. I would like a script to come up with somewhat more elegant ways in dealing with them. I think I will actually rent Tora! etc. I've grown to be curious. Thanks for the tip, my numerous intellectual friends, and let's hope Hollywood will find wisdom (and TRUE fierceness!) on their path soon, so that people won't waste their good money on trash and sponsor people who don't deserve it.
...And Justice for All (1979)
Screw the bad commends, I liked this 'all for the people' film!
It's true, it's a bit cheesy, but we're used to cheesy films from America (at least it's not about some wimp hero like Ben Affleck or so saving us all from the really bad guys (if not..aliens!). Instead this lovable 70's movie (still like the cars and clothes) is a story with a heavy moral about the good conscience of people in judicial positions. I must say though, that this kind of a moral suits me much better than for instance the moral in 'Pearl Harbor', witch is a grotesque and pathetic movie about 'the will to be strong' or 'we will prevail'.. something abstract like that (revenge! revenge! kill the baddies, if our president (Roosefelt, who was bound to a wheelchair) has the will to stand up, we will be strong enough to fight back). There is of course a risk that people will grow a little cynical about justice in America after seeing this picture. I have to say that I already was before watching it. Among other reasons because of that treacherous plea-bargain stuff that has led criminals in the States to accuse innocent people of all kinds of s**t (not proven but hey!). I'm sorry if I sound a little fanatical about the political stuff and all, but I don't see why the moral of this movie is 'too heavy', 'patronizing', or 'cynical', when Hollywood still produces s**t in witch te Americans save the world again from the Martians or the terrorists. It's a kind of arty farty highbrow judgment. I like a self-critical point of view.
So I liked the movie, it's just good cinema and the jokes were kind of okay, I don't mind. Nice to see that Al Pachino actually hasn't changed at all, over the years.
Idioterne (1998)
I'm so glad this film was made!
Punk exists in movies too! This is just a reaction to all the candy-assed Disneykids corny American filmmaking that absorbs money you could better spend on fighting poverty (not drugs). It makes me want to go out and see another plastic Hollywood disaster (without paying the fee) and spasm right there in the crowd! But of course I haven't got the balls for it.
Speaking of balls, the sex scene is also a very bald critique towards ridiculous porn and corny porn lovers. I'm glad there's also films being made for real adults. This is not distasteful; this is a blessing for taste and style. A movie that should be looked upon with great respect. Lars keeps me happy!