Thursday, December 30, 2010

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Happy New Year! \\ STRANGE DAYS (USA, 1995) Kathryn Bigelow

I remember it like it was time: the room full, the lights go down, a few minutes and stunned the audience that is literally a crazy rhythm, deafening, overflowing ... a river of color, sound, action, amazingly and wonderfully irresistible kitsch. Someone puts his fingers in his ears, someone will complain about 'the volume is too high', the rest (the majority) are overwhelmed by the images and the strength of this fiction-contemporary (not a paradox) signed by Kathryn Bigelow.

E 'on the last day of the year, perhaps the last days of humanity, the world is insane and people will go bust with the' squid ', the latest to abandon the illusion and to escape an inescapable destiny. Yet in this whirlwind of feelings is filthy even those who bravely and romantically, believes in love and hope. Strange Days is a film for those who have the courage to 'believe', no matter what: in God, the people, hope in the future. It was 1995 when I saw it: they were not even the Twin Towers collapsed, but there was already a company who theorized without reference points and lobotomized by 'Big Brother' ...

Yet the final, that final, in a New Year's hysterical and tumultuous, so artificial, irreverent, absurd, unbelievable, is one of the most beautiful final I have ever seen the movies. Strange Days is the movie 'mandatory' waiting to see the new year, perhaps sipping a good wine or clutching the hand of a loved one. And, inevitably, make a wish.
Happy New Year to all!

"Look around you! The world is all a mess. What do you care to die?" So the world will end in 10 minutes "

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Jamaican Traditional Style And Dress

Merry Christmas! \\ AMERICAN LIFE (USA, 2010) Sam Mendes

'Away we go' says the original title, far more eloquent than buckled from our distribution, which mimics the recent past, the director Sam Mendes ... America is described in this film in fact has nothing to 'Beauty', but rather looks like any other country in the world, with the same problems and the same hopes of a young couple looking for, believe you can find it really, a kind of 'place' where to give birth to their son.
Bart and Verona are both thirty-four, precarious, with few certainties and many dreams in my head. And they live their insecurity and disillusionment with total awareness, typical of those in this condition, in fact, there is always.

They wander far and wide for all of North America, from Phoenix to Tucson, from Madison to Colorado and to Canada in search of 'community' to establish and perfect where plant roots through this journey came upon characters improbable and surreal, like a cousin of Bart and totally sirocco 'flower child' (With a huge bed where they sleep all the members of the family, children included), the brother of him (the boy-father, abandoned by his wife and a daughter to care for), a former colleague nympho and foul-mouthed, insulting children and 'tries' shamelessly ...

American Life seems to be, so to speak, the 'Christmas version' of Revolutionary Road: the tone is light, sarcastic, comedic light, camouflaged by another road movie ... but the powers are the same: the loss of values \u200b\u200bin a society that seems to have nothing more human, and where the only way of salvation seems to be precisely that of the 'called out', to cut bridges with the outside world, finding (finally) his place in the great soul childhood home, home uterine and 'uncontaminated'. Conclusion
perhaps trivial and obvious. But the film comes to us after an hour and a half fast and exciting, where you ride and it is reflected, not depressed. And, for a film 'Christmas', I'd say it is already too much.

RATING: * * *

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Merry Christmas! \\ DEPARTURES (Japan, 2008), Yojiro Takita

may seem a paradox: on Christmas day to see a film about death. Yet Departures , the Japanese film, which in 2008 won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Best 'Christmas' I've ever seen, in the sense voucher term. It 's a poetic film, light, disarming in its sensitivity and ease with which it can penetrate into the mind of the beholder, tackling and playing down tones hour comedy hour touching (but not dramatic or blackmail) a difficult subject as precisely , that of ... transition.

Yes, because the 'departure' of the title are nothing more than that ... to the afterlife! At the same misunderstanding also falls naively Daigo, a young unemployed musician who returns to his native village to rebuild their lives and seek new employment. The protagonist meets an ambiguous job announcement, believing that he was hired by a travel agency, and instead will understand soon That those '' agency 'is particularly concerned with only ... of the 'last' trip! Daigo finds himself doing the 'Thanatos-aesthetic' , namely the one in the ancient Japanese tradition that has the task of play, heal and restore dignity to the body of the deceased before being cremated.

At the 'News' is obviously shocking, but the pay is good and the effort is not great. So Daigo accepts the job, discovering day after day to have a special talent ... him, shy and sensitive boy, with little confidence in himself (he has given up music career because he was convinced of his mediocrity) will find out through the relationship with the families of deceased and the sacredness of an art as old as the world, the key to its existence. Through a ritual dance (but not morbid) who takes away the clothes and reassembles the body restoring a human face, Daigo finally feels useful and not insignificant, growing belief in its submissions, obtaining any 'experience' an important life lesson. In

Departures there is so much poetry and so much beauty. You breathe the air of a distant land and imaginative, hyper-technical yet very attached to their traditions, their own symbols and places. That may be a good hot tea, peach trees in bloom, a bathhouse frequented by the elders of the village, a full bar left memories ...
And there's so much happiness, despite the theme of 'indecent': that of a boy who can develop and find their inner peace, despite the prejudices of others. And to give the viewer a sense of contentment and comfort.
Sorry if it is little.

RATING: * * * *