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Kleise ta matia (2003)
Open Your Eyes
Not exactly. This sitcom is called Close Your Eyes a.k.a. "Kleise ta matia" and it has nothing to do with the film. It is a nicely, well plotted, full of surprising twists and crazy encounters sitcom which is different to the rest Greek sitcoms due to the fact that it has a unique direction. The use of music is sublime and the direction has a 24 feeling to it. It portraits the upper Athenian class quite efficiently and it doesn't lack the spine of a screenplay as many other sitcoms do. Every action is justified, and leads to a great climax in the episodes and throughout each episode one has a great feeling of agony of what's going to happen next. Great sitcom for Greek standards and not only. Pleasurable to watch.
Garden State (2004)
The thing that's missing.
Good writing, good directing, good acting. It is overall a good film. A very good film. Zach braff delivers a fine direction and Natalie portman along with peter sasgaard deliver very good performances. But despite the film's 'goodness' there's something missing. Why, oh why it had to be so short. I mean, the editing and the story was all great, but i believe that the audience needed something more. It should dig more into the characters, it should explain some things it didn't quite well explain (see; the void, the ark, the necklace). It should be at least a 120min film. That way everything would be perfect. The story would have a more natural continuity and everyone would be happy. Two people we can blame. Either the writer for not writing a more complete script or the studio for not allowing the film to exceed the 90 minutes of runtime. Well, this is air-talk now. It was a good film and this is all that matters.