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The Truman Show (1998)
Interesting and inspirating movie with many strange things.
Truman show is very interesting movie. In some sort one of his kind. Unique idea and script, hardly can found in any another movie. Which is pretty amazing just by itself.
Story is pretty plain - TV corporation adopt newborn just for create 24 hours uninterrupted TV show about his whole life.
The town, where he grown and live is one giant TV studio. All people around, whole town population are actors. Fake parents, fake emotions, fake job, fake friends, fake "fate". Everything in his life is secretly controlled by TV visionary Christof, including what woman he have to start dating and marry.
It's quite interesting, that despite Christof saying in first line "We've become bored with watching actors give us phony emotions." and then "there's nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards.", practically everything in movie contradict his statement. Everything is phony and fake. So much resemblance with our life and world around us, isn't?
However, despite such uniqueness, or maybe exactly because of that, there are too many plot holes. After deep analyze, such thing as 24hrs TV show of whole life one person, whom have no idea about that, couldn't really exist not even survive. Especially financially. Interesting moments from Truman life shown in movie looks fine, but if his whole life would be transmitted over 3 decades while show is on the run, those few interesting moments would be spread over that time so rarely, that hardly enough people would watch such boredom show, not even speak about financial aspect.
Starship Troopers (1997)
Very controversial result
This movie is shine example, how common Hollywood money-making film-industry production how to work. Excellent casting, excellent camera, effects (with some tragic exemptions)... On the other side, who know Heinlein book and understand what's the point of that book, cannot be more disappointed and, in some case, angry. So let's explain. Key part of book is about importance personal responsibility towards society, "Dubois lesson". It explain how right attitude and responsible behavior is important for everything and everybody. It is base of book and packed in incredible good sci-fi story. Another important part of this story is powered combat suit. Dare to say Heinlein invented it. It play such important part of book and story, that I can't imagine it would be dismissed. However - in movie was. Instead of that Verhoeven and Neumeier replace it by some ugly space-bugs, and gave them unthinkable skill - insects, without something like high-tech space navigation devices or transports, they are able to attack civilization on another far distant planet!!! Put it to simple analyze - screenplay just robbed the book, thrown away whole core and important things and left that unimportant - bugs and butchering. Even it is described by high professional cinematography level, I can't wait for another adaptation of novel, where storyline will be kept.
Mansfield Park (2007)
Couldn't finish it.
The first and main - headache camera. Did ever cameraman heard about steady-cam device? Too fast moves, shaking, no single calm shot from stand. Example? In scene where Fanny and Edmund play badminton and Peter call them. I understand that TV movies have much lower budget than standard cinema movies, but still... there are TV movies pleasure to watch over and over. This one I couldn't stand for more than 15 minutes. Besides, choosing of actors was so poor, they simply didn't fit their characters. I feel they won't feel in their characters comfortably and play behavior of their characters so... forcibly. No speak about very bad screenplay. The version from 1999 with F. O'Connor is quite different universe. So my recommendation is - don't waste time with this version of Mansfield Park, you miss nothing. Really.
Tasogare Seibei (2002)
Masterpiece can't be unseen even for those, who don't like japan/samurai movies.
This is probably one of the best and touchable samurai movie I ever seen. Last Samurai with Tom Cruise? Forget it. Compare Tasogare is typical hollywoodish piece of sh... Even is nice to see, I have to admit. But Tasogare... That's model of perfection. Camera as perfect as in Blade Runner, music as great and gently as in A Beautiful Mind, Hiroyuki Sanada match this character as much as possible in actor ability is. There is very, very few things to complaint. Too plain story? Maybe for some, but story in this movie is expressed in best way I ever seen. No spectacular "katana" fights? Ooh, there are plenty in countless another movies, you'll be overfilled of it. This one is about beauty, you probably never seen such way, not power of stunts or CGI. Enjoy it!
P.S. How often you just let play some movie (not music!) in background, while you doing something else? Well, in my case Tasogare is only movie played over and over again thousand times and I'm still not tired of that.
Eve no jikan (2010)
Deep probe into human dirty soul
Well... there is many things in one simple movie. But Japanese anime are such that - deep in psychology, ethic, show parts of our behavior we won't see... From one point I can say, this movie is like prophecy. We, humans, WILL DO act and treat to our future androids and robots exactly in way, we see in this movie. Heartless, selfish, careless, most of us will consider them as "machine, what have to serve me/obey my commands". Nothing more. But there will be many another people, who make strong relationship with their "machine" - and call it whatever you want. For child is very easy to bond tightly with his/her babysitter, no matter if it's made from flesh or wires... And those people will love their "machines" more than love humans, some of them will depend on them very much, sometimes too much. And that become a thorn in flesh of heartless people, people who stuck in opinion "it's only machine and it's not deserve to be loved". As I note in summary, this movie is amazing probe into our souls, reveal our wants, feelings, dreams, nightmares or worse parts of our personality. Don't be deluded with easygoing animation/drawing. Movie is very hard to understand and once you understand message and all things what include, you'll love it. Love it so much, you probably start looking some prop from movie on internet or ebay. Such a scarf or coffee pot with name "Are you enjoying..." Right? ;) Because that's the moment you understand message and agree with that message, and you one of those people, full of love to things WITH SOUL, no matter if they are made from flesh or wires. For those, who want to know, what message is and didn't found it yet - watch movie again. And again. Good Luck! :)