The 25th hour is a emotional and moving drama from spike lee,filled with brilliant performance of Edward Norton.
A drug dealer(Montgomery brogan) has sentenced for seven years in jail.Before he went to jail,he has 24 hours of freedom to spend with his wife ,his father,his close friends and his dog.In this 24hours,they realize what went wrong and who was responsible.He was smart,young and intelligent but he did wrong things,at some point he moved towards wrong direction in his life.The 25th hour revolves around this 24 hours where everybody grieve ,think of the moments where they tried to stop him but he didn't listen to them.The movie deals with the relationships ,their importance and failure of them,what happens when we don't listen to them or when they fail to act.the movie shows it is only us who should be held responsible for our mistakes and its consequences.the reasons should be many but the main culprit is only us.The movie is also about fear which we felt through Monty,fear of not being survived and losing everything.
Edward Norton was the perfect choice for the role of Monty borgan and he played it brilliantly.the character of Monty is not of a very bad guy but somehow he took wrong decision to become a drug dealer.the character was not very sympathetic and likable either but Edward Norton made us grew sympathy towards him.all other main characters were very well portrayed.his wife naturaily (rosarie Dawson) who failed to stop him from ruining himself,his father(Brian cox) who owns a pub and felt very estranged with his own son,and his friends Jacob Elinsky(Philip Hoffman) a introvert English teacher who has a crush for his own student and Frank Slaughtery(berry pepper) his child-hood friend who felt sorry for Monty but also believe that he deserved for what he did,they all seemed to be estranged and distant to each other.
we felt the feelings of emotional estrangement and dissatisfaction among the characters for each other and spike lee succeeded in portraying those feelings.but in some way direction of the spike lee was not up to the mark as he did some mistakes.some scenes seemed to be very badly edited and proper use of camera should be done to make the scenes better.some small characters like DEA officers are very improperly portrayed.the movie was intense and involving but irregularly. there was no problem with script,it was brilliantly written,but movie left to make impact at many moments where they could have done better due to its weak supervision.
however,they give brilliant start and finish to the movie.the opening scene of the movie shows Monty saving the injured dog as he was inspired by his zeal to live.after wards,Monty admits to his friend that saving this dog is the only good thing he did in his life,which makes us realize how unimportant life he had lived.after the starting when i felt movie is getting more involving and interesting the movie deviated from its path at certain points due to its weak supervision by spike lee.the best part of the movie was the montage at the ending, which shows his father taking him farther away from new york instead of going to jail,his father saying how it is possible that he can live happily away from here,then we saw Monty living a happy life, getting married with naturaily and raising kids.but at last when montage ends we saw both of them going towards jail ,realizing us of loss of last opportunity he had to save everything he lost.
spike lee chosen the great idea to make the movie but he failed to convert it into something memorable,but this doesn't prevent movie to deliver its message successfully.the movie reminded me of movie cool hand Luke,symbolically,the hero also had its poster in his house.both movies are the character study of anti-hero who did mistakes in their life,and ended up in jail,having no idea what to do with life.
A drug dealer(Montgomery brogan) has sentenced for seven years in jail.Before he went to jail,he has 24 hours of freedom to spend with his wife ,his father,his close friends and his dog.In this 24hours,they realize what went wrong and who was responsible.He was smart,young and intelligent but he did wrong things,at some point he moved towards wrong direction in his life.The 25th hour revolves around this 24 hours where everybody grieve ,think of the moments where they tried to stop him but he didn't listen to them.The movie deals with the relationships ,their importance and failure of them,what happens when we don't listen to them or when they fail to act.the movie shows it is only us who should be held responsible for our mistakes and its consequences.the reasons should be many but the main culprit is only us.The movie is also about fear which we felt through Monty,fear of not being survived and losing everything.
Edward Norton was the perfect choice for the role of Monty borgan and he played it brilliantly.the character of Monty is not of a very bad guy but somehow he took wrong decision to become a drug dealer.the character was not very sympathetic and likable either but Edward Norton made us grew sympathy towards him.all other main characters were very well portrayed.his wife naturaily (rosarie Dawson) who failed to stop him from ruining himself,his father(Brian cox) who owns a pub and felt very estranged with his own son,and his friends Jacob Elinsky(Philip Hoffman) a introvert English teacher who has a crush for his own student and Frank Slaughtery(berry pepper) his child-hood friend who felt sorry for Monty but also believe that he deserved for what he did,they all seemed to be estranged and distant to each other.
we felt the feelings of emotional estrangement and dissatisfaction among the characters for each other and spike lee succeeded in portraying those feelings.but in some way direction of the spike lee was not up to the mark as he did some mistakes.some scenes seemed to be very badly edited and proper use of camera should be done to make the scenes better.some small characters like DEA officers are very improperly portrayed.the movie was intense and involving but irregularly. there was no problem with script,it was brilliantly written,but movie left to make impact at many moments where they could have done better due to its weak supervision.
however,they give brilliant start and finish to the movie.the opening scene of the movie shows Monty saving the injured dog as he was inspired by his zeal to live.after wards,Monty admits to his friend that saving this dog is the only good thing he did in his life,which makes us realize how unimportant life he had lived.after the starting when i felt movie is getting more involving and interesting the movie deviated from its path at certain points due to its weak supervision by spike lee.the best part of the movie was the montage at the ending, which shows his father taking him farther away from new york instead of going to jail,his father saying how it is possible that he can live happily away from here,then we saw Monty living a happy life, getting married with naturaily and raising kids.but at last when montage ends we saw both of them going towards jail ,realizing us of loss of last opportunity he had to save everything he lost.
spike lee chosen the great idea to make the movie but he failed to convert it into something memorable,but this doesn't prevent movie to deliver its message successfully.the movie reminded me of movie cool hand Luke,symbolically,the hero also had its poster in his house.both movies are the character study of anti-hero who did mistakes in their life,and ended up in jail,having no idea what to do with life.