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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
If you can relate, you wont hate
Yeah, if you ever had a train wreck group of friends in your twenties....I wanted to hate this movie, but I just can't. I thought I had it all figured out, and was met with a series of fails time and time again. It wasn't pretty, and neither was these peoples lives post grad and post not fun childhoods. Yeah some of us had parents who bought us cars and paid the rent sometimes, but do we need bleed? The criticism aimed at this movie that these people were shallow because they have money.....IS A SHALLOW CRITIQUE. Simply because having money or not having it has nothing to do with the person you become. If anything it could exacerbate problems. A cringe inducing movie but fun. The music is terrible! That poor sax. Has this person never heard of Stan Getz? If anyone else was a confused wreck in their twenties, its kinda hard to hate! I liiiikee a giirl whooo driiiinkkksss!
Brave New World (1980)
Everything is Perfect Now
I watch it like once a month. Very well acted and perfectly cast. Its also a great drama, comedy, romance - and has a clever sense of self awareness. I always find new things in it whenever I watch - very thoroughly done. I can quote this movie almost line for line, "but everything is perfect now, and everything will always be perfect, so why does it matter when things weren't perfect?" I haven't read the book, so I don't know how much of the dialogue is drawn from it - but I love the dialogue. So simple and naive. I like how there are no "good guys" in this story, its just a character study. John Savage wasn't anymore more moral at the end of the day then the people in the perfect society were. He was naive too in his own way. He was kind of the opposite of the Ford worshipers - they suppressed their emotions and he was carried away by his... I also like the idea of trying to build a perfect society - this story is as close to a "Utopian" scifi as I've ever seen. Even though it is ultimately dystopian, it is not as bleak as dystopian stories usually are. I feel like the major flaw in this dystopian society was hierarchy. This is the tragic flaw of the otherwise perfect little social experiment they had going - is that it was ultimately still based on hierarchy and dominance and submission within its roles - just more refined and sleek so it wasn't as obvious and noticeable as other dystopian fantasies. This mini series is painfully underrated. One of my favorite movies/mini-series ever! S
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
Great Movie!
Very intense and interesting story. Also I found it fascinating that they were that advanced in their knowledge of how trauma affects the brain , especially since the medical community *just* diagnosed schizophrenia as dis associative identity disorder in recent years. I didn't expect them to tackle this subject so honestly and that was very refreshing. The scientific approach made the plot line of the movie totally realistic and believable even though it was a melo drama. Each character was well casted and well played, especially the woman in the lead role and her husband and lover. I liked this movie better tan the 10 faces of Eve. Excellent movie would watch again