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300 (2006)
Spirit Warriors
What is most impressive in this movie novel about Spartans against Xerxes has to do with what men lost forever , their attitude to fight believing in what makes us persons and not slaves of money , of Rich Kings , unfair Governors . There are 300 on one million that can make the difference , losing all they have around their lives . Isn't it a decadence that dies for the 300 ? You can burn the candle dropping it in a ball of fire , and what you see fight buys elegance , art , crazy mind of the beauty , the Spartans combat squadron is unbreakable , solid , perfect! They can fall only against betrayal and coward acts , against lies . There's a race of destruction behind them that is ever a step behind themselves , until that spear that makes of Xerxes a scarface and a bug between the bugs .
There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas,probably in Tennessee. Fool me once... ..shame on... Shame on you. You fool me,we can't get fooled again.
We agreed.
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Bums always win
In their career Coen brothers won't again reach the high who they released with this movie . Movie based over the vagabond brain of Dude and the ironic and without a possible description of the "jew" Walter , but rarely a movie can be remembered for his superb dialogs and sentences as : "THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND, MAN." "THE BUMS WILL ALWAYS LOSE!" "HAVE YOU EVER HEARD|OF Vietnam?" "YOU'RE ENTERING|A WORLD OF PAIN, SON." and many others . It's as to describe a landscape colored with millions of colors , a way to walk in an alien heaven , it's how life should be but the potential is it's how life "might be" . Kind of humans with their low vision of this world would not spend a cent as they wouldn't break their ordinary world of fear , fear watching a person who does change own world without pretending to change anything , an anonymous sequence of d.n.a. binary in a world ever biggest than the day before , and Dude swims in this anonymous world , escaping from sharks , humans which lost from their born that free state primitive painted by J.J.Rousseau in Emile . Anything of this movie is a huge smile and a long and bitter laugh about this occidental society .
Cypher (2002)
The reality of a misdirection
A theme not easy to direct , seeing how many movies went out in these years about parallel universes , worlds , realities . The Canadian director made his strike releasing a small masterpiece of the ruling theme , a success obtained by using a thin art , the misdirection . Misdirection art leads from the beginning to the end of the movie , hitting the scene with superb splits of high technology and low human actions and again low technology and high human actions . You can not prevent what will happen scene after scene until the shocking final , and this is sure a good result for a movie bad commercialized and not even imported in many countries until now .
Escape from New York (1981)
The Snake biting its own tail
Often movies with low budgets but artistically well directed with a leader protagonist get their first places in the top ten of their genre. A first thought goes to the Carpenter's description of the future in 1981. It's not hidden in Carpenter's opera the effort to win over the dark times that politic and economy world make in the name of a (ghost) democracy . So Escape from New York is a modern adventure in a new middle age , where the strongest men are the only survivors . A Knight in Exile , Snake , gets this mission only because forced , he wouldn't even sell himself to save a fly , figure to save the President , "President of what?" , but then only worth is to keep himself in life , not others just himself . Concept pretty released in the final scene , when Snake spits some Jazz music over a peace worldwide conference that might help the human destiny . A Director John Carpenter , who is not new in the making stories of the hero without guilt and fear , made a great job by creating a perfect Anti-Hero , Snake , in an arena where the evil fights against evil and the only matter from each side is to reach freedom , in a world where you may name freedom just nothing .
Spun (2002)
Instant Repeater
One of the best movie about drugs and new generation. Åkerlund assembled a cast that became great by interpreting the funny faces of a sub life in the wild . Also Åkerlund assembled over his crew a beautiful soundtrack , who perfectly follows the scenes , giving to the whole movie a total harmony . It's not giving back a movie of this genre made with ingredients like drug theme or underground life or still funny irony , there's love , ethic , knowledge of road life , knowledge accomplished in the Mickey Rourke's character , but there's not a hymn to any drug effect as solution or tasty idea to support the mind of who keeps to be a survivor . The final looks as a new beginning , not a "life continues.." but a painful waking up after the sweetest illusion .
Marrakech Express (1989)
What is friendly?
My father always said to me : " Friendly doesn't exist " . Watching this movie you can get an idea of what friendly is , an union , a short moment thinking to make great things with others , feeling an adventure as when we were kids or students . All actors made a good job by interpreting the different parts of individual masks and human behaviors . Also it can be voted as road movie , a classic review of what Salvatores figured in a transposition of Kerouac's book and state of mind , although Marrakech Express is in a primitive state of "on the road" mind , compared to the beat generation bible . The ending scene is an answer to my initial sentence , personally , i add , it does exist but it is not as you can always figure out .