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Another Earth (2011)
Most ingenious story ever
Review preferences: Name: Taliezin Aneirin Location: Netherlands, Enschede
Preview: Summary: Most ingenious story ever
The movie starts with a terrifying and unexcapable tragedy so depraved of any hope or happiness, it prommises a dark and heavy story to follow. But after such a tragedy, the story develops surprisingly and sooths the viewer in to a confidant witness of someone dealing with this tragedy, with warming everyday human interaction, that plays out so magically, that nobody could think up a better life you wish for the survivors, involved in this tragedy. And on top of that, it ends with the same abrubtness as its beginning, both shocking in it's own way. Ending a ingenious story with a perfect balance.
This picture moved me all over the place, this is in my experience, the most moving and ingenious story I ever seen. I wonder how beautiful the movie could be which could top this.
The beginning of the movie shocked me trough the core. I didn't know anything about the movie, only title and cover. No info is in this case, a bad mistake. "You have to read the descriptions." The beginning is not for the weak hearted or for childish minds. I thought it to be a nice easy movie with only the cover and it's name in sight. Something like a family-movie. Watching in this state, I almost had a out-of-my-body experience. I really pressed the stop button on my remote. I was shocked by the sudden entry of the horrible element in this story. Its beginning. My temperature dropped like the blood-levels in my head... I was unprepared. But in darkness of this beginning, the movie kept on drawing one after another the most fantastic moments on top of the previous. The most lovely solutions, the most beautiful lies, the most ingenious plot advancement. The end is totally worthy to such a movie. I really hated it in the first seconds, until I understood that this end gave the most satisfying en balanced outcome whereby, I totally forgot the horror I was in, asking myself, why anybody could or dared to end such a perfect story so abruptly without any satisfaction. After the first seconds, the minutes went by when the outcome sinked in and got hold of me with the last surprise. The simpleness of perfection of it, shines it's significance and fulfills the viewer whole. Just like the tragedy in the beginning of this movie, almost swallowed you whole.
This movie is a 24 carets diamond.
Revolver (2005)
Intelligent,controversial and a cliché-breaking film.
First of all, it is more than what reaches the eye what makes a movie contribute to the viewers interpretation of a movie. Having said this, Guy Ritchie has created a style that does a lot of explaining in favor of the interpretation of this writer/director himself.
Now about his film 'Revolver', (the title as in 'Revolve' in the game of life and death as stated by Richie himself)... Because of my own life's experiences, the clue's in the film weren't as difficult as some would say. Throughout the movie I could stay on top with knowing upfront what was happening to the lead role of Jason Statham and the most fun I had out of the movie was the mystery of the question if my guess would holdup... and it did. And what I had guessed of the plot of this film, was given form in a more beautiful manner I could have hoped for with this genre and the meaning of this film was the more clear to me than any friend of mine would understand if I told them what my experience would be that I see mirrored in this movie. This great director/writer has a diamond on display with this great and intelligent movie.
The idea which is used by Guy to show how humans interpretation can reach further then what is normal, but non-or-the-less real, is not new in movie story lines. I know the Idea is as old as the human race but I think it was 'Angel Heart' with Mickey Rourke and Robert DeNiro, that was the first film to behold such a surprise element that would inspire movies like the genius 'Jacobs Ladder' with Tim Robbins, 'Fightclub', 'The Sixth Sense', 'Devils Advocate', and 'Usual Suspects'. I think all these movies had some inspiration to 'Revolver', even if it was, only to cross-out cliché's around films revolving around this idea of soul-mirroring. Which I think Richie has managed very well.
To immerse even more in proving the clear meaning, 'Revolver' has to offer... If quotes are used in a movie... and the quotes are channeled to give a curtain flow, which quotes will do naturally... the director is partly delivered to any meaning these quotes may give. And having said this, I may conclude that the outcome of the concept displayed in this movie, is the real backbone of these quotes and even a backbone to more quotes of wisdom. I will end with an old Japanese saying which isn't in the movie but could well be...
"If you meet someone who's a better man than you, learn to be better than him. If you see someone who's more evil than you, investigate oneself."