sonjarajic Reviews

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

A story about life, and death.

[10/10 · 30 July 2013]

I first fell in love with the book by John Boyne, than with the movie. Firstly, I don't consider this a children book, I just don't think they'd properly interpret it, and even if they would. they would be very emotionally moved.

It tells a story about an innocent boy whose father is a commandant in WW2 and his forbidden friendship with a young Jew just across the fence, on this farm, where all farmers are wearing pajamas all day. Throughout the whole film there have been a few sentences, so true, yet so discrete, because they were addressed to an 8 year old boy, the sentences that he doesn't understand, yet you do, and you pause the film and just sit in your empty room and think in complete silence and just think. You think about life, about death, your life, somebody else's life, about people in general, about all the harm they do and about all the misfortune and misery a human race is capable of causing.

The book's beautifully transferred to the movie screen, Herman did an amazing job interpreting Boyne's masterpiece, casting was right on spot, they couldn't have pick better-suiting actors for this.Vera Faminga was outstanding, with her scream only a mother can understand.

I noticed tears flowing down my cheeks about halfway across the movie, because it's a sad and touching story, one that cannot have a happy ending but makes you think about it for weeks after. The only faith we all share is death, where it doesn't matter if you're German, or white, or black, or Jewish. In death, we're all the same.

10/10

War Horse (2011)

Just like a light at the end of the tunnel...

[10/10 · 3 February 2012]

One of a kind.

Well, I hate those kind of lemonade-love-story-no-message-sending kinds of movies. And when I say this, trust me- War Horse is NOTHING like that. It's that touching, sad, beautiful kind of movie that sends a message to this world. It has a point and anybody who doesn't like it doesn't understand it.

I drooled. I cried. Seriously. It touched me like nothing in a long time did. I'm not superficial, it wasn't because a horse died or because it's about a war, no for heaven's sake that sorts of things happen whether we wanted it or not. This is just a movie so we see it first- hand. But when we hear it in the news it doesn't sound that terrifying, doesn't it?

I cried because it reminded me that there still is hope for us with people like that. Because of the goodness in it. First of all, we are all humans, whether we're Germans or English or from any other country in this world. We fight and kill our own brothers on what bases? Because some man that we've never even met told us so? Or because of issues of a man who sits behind a big wooden desk and therefore is better than all of us.

There still is hope that goodness exists.

There's an English soldier on one side. Horse in the middle and German on the other side. The war stands still, nothing is moving, everything seems like in peace for that one moment. In that moment they are not enemies, just two ordinary men trying to save a life of that noble, gorgeous creature. It is the only thing that is connecting those two men from the other sides. Horse and their own kindness. In that moment politic doesn't matter, neither is some stupid rule that says: I'm a German, you're French or English- we have to hate each other, only thing that does is saving a life.

Well, I think that was enough of my philosophizing, but I'm just going to say that the crew was amazing, actors were awesome and Spielberg did a splendid job, he saw it like nobody else could and then presented it to us. Really phenomenal, i have none objections whatsoever.

I recommend this movie to every one of you, especially those of you who lost hope.

I hope this review helped. :)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

Not as bad as the movies before, yet definitely not good.

[3/10 · 12 January 2012]

Well I can say that I'm NOT a fan of Twilight movies so it was a bit too cheesy for me, but I can also say that it's the best of the ones before and if you are a fan of vampires, fights, sloppy love stories and some disgusting things you will probably like the movie.

If you are easily disgusted do not watch this movie.

Well in this one we have fights between wolfs and vampires. Meh.

It's new, different, more exciting, more disgusting and kinda better than the last three. If you don't consider 'better' being actually good, because it's not.

Acting is OK. I don't want to to separate individuals so I'll just say that they were just OK.

I didn't hate-HATE the movie but I won't ever watch it again for sure.

Seriously, the movie has no point.

Amadeus (1984)

Magical, beautiful masterpiece!

[10/10 · 12 January 2012]

So I watched this movie more than ten times. I never felt enough and somehow I always end up crying.

Now seriously Milos Forman did an amazing job. It keeps impressing me when Salieri takes original sheets how we see the projection of what he sees and of what's written on the paper. How on paper it looks so ordinary, but what we see and what we hear doesn't match. First a gentile sound of flute, just a few notes, nothing else, and then violin interferes... But then, suddenly Salieri turns the page. Now it's a whole new piece,the music changed into to a much more vibrant tempo, it's a whole new story now, and with the music changes the atmosphere.

Also, the story's beautiful. The way that Saliery envies Mozart and desires something that he has, how he turned his back on him, how he fought with God for giving Mozart the talent and giving him for reward only the ability to recognize it.

The hardest part for me is when Mozart dies. In the background you can hear his Requiem, La Crimosa at that time. And instead of Salieri's expectations of his funeral- a big cathedral, music playing, many people, we see how he's thrown into a hole with the rest of poor people who didn't have money to afford a decent funeral. It makes you ask yourself: Doesn't he deserve more? Now we don't even have a stone to call his grave, we know there was no difference of the final resting place of one of a kind music genius and any ordinary man who made no difference in this world. But we still have his music.

Tom Hulce and F.Murrey Abraham acted wonderfully, the movie became so real that it touched me even more with every passing minute. Lines are fantastic too, true, straight, touching, you can apply them on your real life.

One of the best movies I've ever watched.