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Flight (2012)
I found this movie stressful to watch
This is a random thing, but I just want to say that I found this movie too fast, the dialog hard to follow, and several actors' accents really hard to understand. I seriously understood only a fraction of what some of the characters were saying, especially that cancer patient, I just couldn't understand him at all. I wish there were more slow scenes in this film. It was just too dialog-heavy. Maybe it had something to do with my own state of mind when I went into the theater, like I needed to see something more relaxing that night, don't know. By the way, is this based on any real events? Has anyone ever landed an airplane after flying it upside down? Has any pilot been found to be an alcoholic and a cocaine addict? Personally, I would have been more interested in some more technical stuff about how it is that an airplane can fly upside down when it can't fly right side up, and less in the pilot's alcohol problems. I guess I would have been more interested to see a feature film that was based on a real airplane crash investigation, rather than something that someone made up.
In Time (2011)
This movie will give you nightmares
I think this film's rating is too low. This movie not only presents a plausible nightmarish idea for what life might become in the future, but also provides a thought-provoking critique of the present. We already sell our precious time, of which we have an only limited amount, for money. It is already true that some people's time is worth many times more than the time of others, and that many poor people in America spend their lives working and running around, with almost no time left over for themselves, their family, and what they actually *want* to do in their lives. It is true, also, I think, that people now have much less free time than they did in past centuries - ironically despite all the new technology that was supposed to have given us more free time. It is likely that in the future there will be even less free time left, and that if healthcare continues to be in private hands, it will really be a matter or life or death. I can forgive this film the car chases and the guns (which, I agree, are not needed and boring, and could have been taken out), but I think that the dialogue was interesting, and the characters were not one-dimensional. For all this, I think this film makes a lasting impression and will even give you nightmares.
Two Shadows (2012)
inaccurate portrayal of Cambodia
We saw this film at the international film festival in Phnom Penh. I enjoyed it, except that several of us didn't like how it portrayed Cambodia. The impression that this film gives of the country is that it's a dangerous place full of prostitutes where people get assassinated, and where no one cares to help you unless you pay first. This portrayal of Cambodia is completely inaccurate. Most people who travel in Southeast Asia will tell you that they notice a huge difference in culture between Vietnam on the one hand and Cambodia. Cambodia might be poor, but it is a country where people often go out of their way to help you out even when they don't know you, will never try to overcharge you, speak gently and are most of all afraid to sound rude or impolite. People who visit Cambodia, especially from such a self-centered, money-oriented places as the United States, are often astonished by the selfless behavior of the locals. Cambodia's economy has grown enormously in recent years - the city's capital now has many high rise apartment blocks, as well as trendy restaurants and more high end coffee shops than I've ever seen in my life. However Cambodia is still portrayed in cinema not as it is today, but as it was maybe 10 or 20 years ago. I recently saw an Australian movie about a tourist who is murdered by a drug gang in Cambodia. These kinds of portrayals discourage tourists from coming here and are simply not truthful.