I wanted to like this movie, but I found myself shouting at the screen so many times that, by the time the story wrapped up, I wasn't rooting for anyone. A dark take on the whole "bad seed" theme, Tilda Swinton plays the frustrated mother to a child with so many problems, it's hard to know where to start. And, while most of his aggression is aimed directly at her, I find it hard to believe that NO ONE else in his life (teachers, neighbors, grandparents, the other people in town, the police) noticed his disturbing behavior as a child. His father is clueless, always siding with the child even as he's defiant in front of the parents. "He's a boy...that's what boys do." Um, no. This kid clearly has psychological issues--anyone can see that.
But the filmmakers choose to ignore that and blame nearly everything on the mother. She tries and tries to connect with her son, and he's nothing but snide and manipulative, to the point where the movie drifts from being a twisted family tale into straight-up horror movie land. Whenever she notices him doing something wrong, he always looks up and her and smiles. ALWAYS, even when she's in the kitchen and he's outside and can't possibly know where she is or what she's thinking. It grows laughable near the end when she realizes what he's doing and looks up and he's staring at her and smiling in the creepiest way. You're reminded it's a movie and not real life, taking you out of the drama. It's all over the top guilt aimed squarely at the one person who's actually trying to fix the problem.
By the way, as a parent and member of the community, I find it hard to believe this kid's behavior would be tolerated. It starts at the beginning and just gets worse--but the mother doesn't seem to realize that her child is different. I can't believe she doesn't talk to other parents to get a sense of what kinds of behaviors are normal rebellion and which ones are clearly sociopathic. And after the "incident," I would have moved away. The only reason she would choose to stay in the same town is for the punishment, blaming herself for what happened. She's found her own personal hell, and she thinks what Kevin did was her fault--and she should pay the price. I found it unbelievable, though. All kids are special and different, but a kid like that needs professional help, not a new bow and arrow. Thanks Dad!
The filmmaker chose to skip around in time, showing events and then what led up to those events. It's an interesting choice but takes away most of the tension because the viewer knows what's coming. There is only one "surprise" moment in the film--but it is seriously creepy and comes out of left field to answer several questions. In the end, they don't "talk about Kevin," and that's the primary issue. Maybe if they had, things would have turned out differently. I liked that the filmmaker chose to show less violence than she could have, but I wonder why--the entire film sets up how evil this child is, but then, in the end, the filmmaker protects us from seeing the result of that evil. Again, it feels like an attempt to excuse or cover up his behavior. The film ends up just being a frustrating exercise in bad parenting, bad judgement, and blaming your kids for ruining the fun, tomato-themed life you had before they came along.
They didnt his whole back and fourth with the mom and made us get invested and that was the shitty death they gave her?
Wtf is the helicopter doing? Absolutely nothing
Im sticking with the class president shes the only one that shuts up, after all this time they make so much noise
Really? Cd’s on the window? Just line up the paper properly and you would have enough but i guess thats my ocd tendencies lol
Plus the bathroom out the window made the most since thats what i would do
YES!!! You let then leave if they want to stupid, who are you to tell them they cant. Bulllshit about saving the most people. If my daughter put there I’m going for her end of story
Not going to lie the bully is handling business
The streamer went in the building and left the damn front door open :joy: ohhhh fuck the kids :joy: good call on the open door lol
Just take the scientist outside and let them have at it simple. Why are we still being moral and following law with a state of emergency
So you telling me you did all of this because your kid was getting bullied? What a bitch, this is what happens in a society that puts so much value of status. You could have fucked up the kids that bullied your som but it was more about the shame he felt about his son not fighting back
Too easy of a death for the scientist
Thats so dumb to hang off the wall like that. Just walk across the window theres a high chance they will not break the glass
Why did the zombies stop biting the girl on the phone? Wth is going on
We do know how upload timers work right? Has nothing to do with the phone itself, its already on the site or whatever or the sever ready to be posted lol
I dont understand when the nerds became action heroes lol
Wtf was that padlock made of lol
Come on we all know when we threw knives like that it never stuck ever.
This is a fantastic movie. It came at the right time, right when the weapons race between the Russians and the Americans was at it peak.
Instead of a war/disaster movie where we see the terrifying effects of a nuclear war Stanley Kubrick made a satire out of the nuclear war showing how much of a farce it was in real life.
Peter Sellers is brilliant in his three roles as the british officer, the U.S president and Dr. Strangelove. Especially Dr. Strangelove is hilarious when at the end of the movie we see his old Nazism tendencies (i assume that he was a German scientist escorted to the USA after WWII in Operation Paperclip) get the better of him.
There are only a few movies that have the ability to take such a deadly serious subject as in this case a nuclear war and turn it into a comedy. this movie Dr. Strangelove managed to do it with flying colours. This is truly Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. And even though it's now 48 years ago that this movie came out and the threat of nuclear war is long gone it's still a very entertaining movie and every movie fan should see at least once in his lifetime.
Finished another episode and oh god, how am I supposed to wait A WEEK for another episode.
We got some backstory as who the Founder Ymir is. I have to say that this few minutes were pretty painful, as she was a slave her whole life, which made her think that she has to serve under anyone that has the royal blood.
Eren pretty much freed her from the endless work she was doing or at least that's how I think it is. For the first time, she could decide for herself what to do and not what others would tell her.
It's pretty creepy that Eren could talk to everyone through the Founder. Shows how much power does the Founding titan really have.
So if Eren now wants to trample all the lands except for the Paradis island, I wonder if he is able to complete his quest he has given himself. Haven't read the manga, so I'm pretty much without a clue what happens next.
Absolutely loved the effects, when the walls were crumbling down. Shows how much detail they are putting into this anime.
Although the beginning, where they pretty much revised one of the scenes was unnecesary but I think it was made so it looked like you are watching both episodes at once. I really don't mind it personally.
Zeke’s plan is fully explained, although given that there is only one episode left, I thought we would see more of the current storyline. Nevertheless, these background episodes are always so well done and this was no exception.
As for the final scene, the animation was beautiful! But Levi is not dead, right? RIGHT? RIGHT???
One episode left, how they are going to wrap up the story in 24 mins??
Who Reiner was talking about during his family dinner:
“this one person just... started eating a potato. When the instructor reamed her out, she admitted without even a hint of guilt, ‘I stole it because it looked so tasty.’ Still, she could tell she was going to be in trouble, so she offered to give him half. But the part she held out to him wasn’t even close to half the potato. They don’t have concepts like fairness or compromise.” = Sasha Braus
“There was one moron dumb enough to forget why he came to the bathroom,” = Connie Springer
“an irresponsible guy who only thought about himself,” = Jean Kirstein
“a straight-laced dumbass who’d think of everyone but himself,” = Marco Bodt
“a guy who’d charge into any situation without thinking,” = Eren Jaeger
“and the two who would follow him through anything...” = Mikasa Ackerman and Armin Arlert
It is clear that Reiner couldn’t think of reasons why the Eldians on Paradis are evil (Karina was afraid Gabi would start thinking of them as humans, as that’s how Reiner portrayed them). Too bad he has to put on two faces back in Marley as well, even with who the successor of the armoured titan will be.
I cannot deny that this movie is well made. It's atmosphere, mystery and thriller elements are all top notch. The story is solid. The detective work is engaging and well depicted.
That said, there were other elements that felt grotesque, gratuitous and just extended the runtime a lot. This is a looong movie, and it's made even longer by a bunch of scenes of sex and sexual assault that we really do not need. Like sure, some of it goes to telling us about Lizbeth's backstory and character, but I honestly think the movie would have been better without them.
I think the main justification for why they're there is to establish the characters in ways that only really matter if this movie has sequels, which it was clearly intended to (as the books and Swedish adaptations do), but they never really eventuated. In light of that, I feel that nothing would be lost without those scenes, and the first half of the movie would be shorter and tighter, and the age rating could also probably be bumped down.
Overall, I found this a very stressful viewing experience, and not one I'd recommend for the faint of heart, by any means. If you're not easily shocked, you'll find a very good mystery thriller here.
I got to say I was really impressed with that movie and was filled with admiration towards Stephen Hawking and it has nothing to do with him being a brilliant physicist. But for being a strong willed human being. A Man who by all means was dealt a bad hand but he never took it as an excuse to not do what he believed in.
I was amazed by Redmayne's performance and how his eyes never stopped shinning even when he lost control over all his motor skills he looked more alive than most of us.
Never for once stopped living life to the fullest.
Another thing that really got to me was the relationship between him and his wife. The intimacy, the communication even when it was about being with someone else, they never stopped talking to one another. An example that we should all follow in our relationships.
Watching that movie made my realise who petty my problems are and how no matter how bad they are, the most important thing about them is that they are temporary.. Some people are not so lucky!
It received four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne and Best Original Score.
It received three 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, winning one for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Redmayne.
It received 10 nominations in British Academy Film Awards or BAFTA and went on to win three; Outstanding British Film, Best Leading Actor (for Redmayne) and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Anthony McCarten).
The film also received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, with Redmayne winning Best Actor for his performance.
There is a pit in my stomach as I write this. Great films stick with you. Great films provoke a reaction. Oftentimes it's joy, or a sense of tragedy, or some lingering glimpse of profundity through art. But other times it's horror; other times it's disgust; other times it's skin-crawling revulsion that makes you wonder if there's any happiness to be had in a world where these sorts of things happen.
And Trainspotting is a damn good film. It features stellar performances (from its lead in particular), an inventive visual sensibility, and story that continually yet artfully punches you in the gut through the whole run time. And because it's stuck with me, because it's provoked a reaction in me, I'm not sure I ever want to see it again.
It's not because Trainspotting is a tragedy. That element is certainly in there, with innocents left to suffer for reasons beyond their control. But mostly it's because the film is about terrible people, people who take advantage of one another, people who have no reserve in hurting someone else just for the fun of it, and people who see the opportunity for one of them to break out of that cycle and cannot help but drag them back into the muck. No, Trainspotting is not about tragedy; it's about fatalism, about unavoidable doom brought on or encouraged by a twisted bliss that you inject into your arm.
But that horror sneaks up on you. The opening third of the episode or so feels like a comedic, slice-of-life look at Scottish heroin addicts that doesn't feel so far away from a sitcom setup, with relationship troubles, buddies bonding over their shared successes and failures, and the folks at the center of the story just generally messing around and living their lives with a sort of reckless abandon that is equal parts dumb, funny, goofy, and more than a little gross.
From the beginning of the film, it's clear that these are not good people -- shooting dogs with pellet guns to get them to bite their owners, stealing sex tapes from their friends, and bloodying random patrons at the bar and getting into fights over it. Sure, these guys are shits, but they feel like mildly amusing, mostly self-destructive shits, who get into the standard kind of shenanigans that wouldn't feel so out of place on a much rougher version of Friends. They have relationship troubles and come up with wacky schemes and come back 'round to hang out and make their roughly-hewn sense of it all.
And then that goddamn baby dies.
It's hard to think of a more horrifying image I've ever seen on film. It outstrips every horror movie and piece of cinematic brutality I've witnessed in terms of the pure, gobsmacking awfulness of it. The camera pans across the poor infant's body. It lingers just long enough and then, in keeping with the grammar of cinema, cuts to our protagonists' reactions, lulling the audience into a false sense of security that they won't have to see it again. But then the film cuts back, it doesn't let the viewer off that easy or attempt to elide the sickening nature of what's taken place.
That's the turn in the film. Renton's voiceover says as much, explains that something changed after that point, but it's also a wake up call within the film. The boyish roughhousing and rowdiness and hijinx of the character's we're introduced to in the first part of the film are not harmless or victimless. They are the silhouette of the disease that casts the shadow, that gives these awful people license to continue being awful, to continue to ignore and turn away from the harshest things in the world because there's a vial of euphoria waiting to keep them from it, to be as selfish as to even jump in line ahead of the woman with the most grief in the race for that chemical distraction. These are not charming rakes who are charming in their incorrigibility; they are terrible human beings who do terrible, terrible things and an engage in whatever behaviors are necessary to avoid having to face how terrible they are.
The rest of the film is a parade of those terrible things. It's hard to know whether heroin is the cause or merely an accelerant to them. There's no origin story for Renton and his pals here. When we see them off of the junk, they may not be robbing or stealing, but their not exactly saints either. Begbie never touches the stuff and might be the worst of them. He and Sick Boy take advantage of Renton in London when neither of them is using and pull him back into the life he'd nearly escaped. Heroin didn't cause the horrible events we witness in Trainspotting. It didn't make these people; it just made them worse.
It made Renton worse because it provided him a means for avoiding ever having to emotionally confront the pain he's caused and the selfishness of his actions. the standout sequence in the film is his detox, full of a phantasmagoria of that guilt and fear and horror that he'd found a way to keep from himself coming back at him full bore in a flash of images, whether they be the spectre of AIDS, the image of poor abandoned Spud, or unnerving, devastating baby. There are a number of fanciful sequences in the film that convey the dreamlike quality of a man able to avoid the worst things in his life because of heroin -- whether it's diving through a toilet bowl that turns into a pristine sea, or overdosing on his dealer's floor while his POV is surrounded in velvet--but in that moment where the drug is escaping his system, those visuals curdle into a nightmare.
The coda to that nightmare is Tommy, the seeming one good man among Renton's acquaintance. Through Renton's shining influence, both by stealing Tommy's sex tape and letting him try heroin, not to relieve Tommy's pain, but because Renton needs the money for his own habit, Tommy ends up addicted, infected, and eventually dying a miserable death while Renton does nothing to fix his mistakes.
In a film whose balance consists of a parade of horribles, that development and the poor innocent child left to perish while its erstwhile caretakers are awash in a neglectful euphoria stand out as the most tragic. But the film's final act may be its most dispiriting. Because for a while, it seems like the nightmare works. That Renton, who's had every opportunity and bit of help his friends--Spud in particular--did not, is at least, it seems, finally able to escape. He moves away. He has a job. He's made a clean break.
But it's not to be. He cannot separate himself from his friends who reinforce his debauchery, who lead him back into misery and thievery and self-destruction and the heroin that makes it all seem tolerable. Trainspotting is not just a story about some bad folks; it's the most effective anti-drug PSA ever created, that shows the awful, stomach-churning trajectory of these people's lives and the depraved, hopeless way that they continue to try to eat one another when their escape of choice is involved. It shows the way it makes them desperate, uncaring, unmoored from life or decency or real happiness, not through fear or exaggeration, but through an unflinching (if stylized) depiction of where this road leads you, what the people who can't "choose life" choose instead to escape the button-down existence they either don't want or can't have. It shows the ugliness at the core of who they are, the parts of their souls that have festered and rotted under the guise of that chemical reaction, and in visceral terms, makes you want no part of it, or them.
Trivias
+The genesis for the episode came from an idea Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin) and Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) had while spending time together on the set of the series.
+The math problem Michael gives, 13579 divided by 8724, equates to 1.56.
+Pam's monologue on reading about a girl who lived in a house with a terrace was based on a real book from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, although not specifically identified as such in the episode, read by Jenna Fischer when she was a child.
+Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey came to Greg Daniels with the basic idea for this episode: Jan would hold a seminar with the Dunder-Mifflin women as a cover to see if any of them had management/executive abilities, and Michael would get jealous. Daniels like the idea and asked them what came next in the story, and Fischer admitted they didn't have more of a plot to outline. Daniels then called BJ Novak into his office and assigned him to write the script from their original idea.
+Scenes were filmed where Dwight brought his "spud gun" to the men's meeting and wreaked havoc, but they were cut from the original broadcast because they upstaged the other parts of the story.
before trying to write a couple word for a review, I bother myself reading other people's review which is pretty amazing, considering some people said sobbing after the ending and the other said this movie is boring and looks a bit dull, this however a movie that if you try to look from different perspective will give you different sensation and interpretation also this movie is not intentionally trying to break people's heart after watching it but its rather intended to show how war looks like at microscopic viewpoint of two children who desperately trying to survive in the midst of chaos, separated from their parents whilst witnessing the true horror of war, pretty much war movie is about bloodshed, bullets flying, explosion, warcry, soldier and etc that closely related to war itself but "Grave of Fireflies" wanted to present the audience, the image of how the terror of war impact the very miniscule level of life despite who causes it what reason behind it, or who win who lose. boring or not, sad or not this movie is more than worth watching not just as entertainment but as a remainder that this kind of situation still happens now and we are still fortunate as the audience not as those "two kids"
My favourite movie of all time, animated or otherwise, and from any country. I just logged my 8th view, but I've seen it a lot more than that. I don't always log views for whatever reason, and sometimes I rewatch individual scenes. I'm always picking up new things I didn't catch before. For example, this time through I realised the answer to a question that's been bugging the fandom for a long time. Why do they keep forgetting? It's simple. We see in the hallucination (when the animation style changes) that the braided cord has been spiritually connected to Mitsuha since she was born. While the timeline of the movie is irrational and paradoxical, Mitsuha makes the connection to Taki by giving him the braided cord on the train in Tokyo in 2003. This is irrational and paradoxical because, prior to receiving the cord, Taki has never met Mitsuha. So, why did she go there in the first place? You see, it's a paradox. However, it isn't the only time that time loops. Time looped after the destruction of Itomori. Taki rewound time by drinking Mitsuha's shrine maiden sake. He had the braided cord, and he was in the temple, so he was able to go back once again. Keep in mind that Taki's story takes place in September 2016, almost three years after the comet incident, which happened on the evening of October 4, 2013. (This date is given several times.) So as long as Taki has the cord, he can go back. However, during twilight hour (which, let's face it, is more like twilight moment), he handed the cord back to her. This ended his connection to her, so as soon as the sun fully set, the connection was broken and his memory began to fade. Had he held onto the cord, that would not have happened. Some fans theorise that, after the events of the film, they met and either remembered everything, or began a new relationship. I am sorry to say that the first situation is highly improbable. It is possible they began a relationship, though. But it's up to the viewer to decide that.
Another thing I noticed this time is that the shrine Mitsuha's family worships at isn't a proper Japanese shrine. It's a little statue in a cave under a massive rock. What is that thing exactly? It almost looks chiseled. But it's not a manmade structure. The shrine area is down underneath it. I'll tell you what it is, it's the first comet that struck the area. I think it's pretty obvious that a comet did strike there as it's clearly a crater, but I think that stone is literally the comet itself, and the worshiping area is directly inside the comet, which split on impact. I'm not sure how scientifically likely it all is, though. But we do know that the lake in Itomori is theorised, by the people in the movie, to have been formed by an earlier comet. I think the movie intends for us to conclude that the shrine is where an even earlier comet struck. Oh wait, it gets better. When the first comet struck, it is my theory that most of the town avoided the area, but one family considered the comet to be sentient and godlike, so they began worshiping it. They were thought of as crazy by the rest of the town. Some hundreds of years later, body-swapping shenanigans similar to those in the movie happened, and a plot similar to the movie happened. Mitsuha's grandmother says as much. Those who worship at the shrine at the first comet are protected, albeit indirectly. There may be some Japanese legends that clarify this or make connections I'm merely grasping at. Japan isn't my country or culture, so that's an aspect I won't understand. I'd love to grab a translator and ask the director, Makoto Shinkai, but I'm sure he'd just laugh and say it's however you want to interpret it. Either way, the man is a genius.
This movie was a reflection of us a society when we let our insecurities and fear fester, when we are not kind, when we assume the worst, and let reason have no place in our hearts or minds, when we do not forgive. It was a profound piece and very sad. They said she was a whore until they made her one by starving her out. If she had given her the opportunity to work or anyone had been kind enough to give her food..... just basic food, even that lustful boy, she would not have had to resort to her only currency. Everyone noticed her ass but only the boy noticed her tears & her hungry belly & her sullen face & her broken heart. Shame on a society that is that cold and unforgiving. Her husband was her saving grace. Thank goodness for him. Thank goodness that boy finally grew a pair and a spine and said something. Thank goodness he was beyond the rumours and innuendo and saw the truth. I shudder to think how many Malénas are created in war times. She says so much with her silence. No one bothered to ask her anything at any point. No one bothered to help except the boy. The concept of telling this story through the town's words was exceptional. The subject of their words never really spoke but everyone else sure did. No one is innocent in this town not even the boy because all allowed it to happen. When things came to a boiling point still no one stood up for her. The worst of it is that only when they saw flaws in her beauty did they welcome her. Well executed."Beauty is pain."
Millennium Actress, which is directed by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika, Paranoia Agent), is without a doubt his defining masterpiece in my opinion. This movie is a complete directorial tour de force and Kon literally blew my mind away with the editing, style and art that he displays in almost every scene. This is ultimately a biographical story about a young girl chasing after her first true love while becoming a popular Japanese movie actress but it morphs into something much more.
Millennium Actress probably had one of the most unique forms of story telling that I've ever seen in a movie. I loved how Chiyoko's story had a dualistic perspective as Kon seamlessly melds together images and scenes from the story of Chiyoko's own real life and from her famous films (which vary wildly from taking place in the Sengoku period to post-WW2 Japan to outer space). These transitions really add to the feeling and intensity of Chiyoko desperately chasing after and searching for her lost love. And you can't help but fall in love with the passion shown by both the main characters, Chiyoko and Genya. Just as Chiyoko says at the end, it was the "chase" that she truly loved and, by god, this film was one hell of a thrilling chase. This is an absolute must-watch for fans of Kon's other works.
I've seen this movie 3 times now and have a ticket purchased for Wednesday night again in the Dome. I LOVE IT. Favorite movie of the year and well on it's way to one of my faves of all time. The music wonderful, the cinematography is gorgeous, the script is hilarious and everything just keeps moving. I love every single scene. I think it has the chance to be the fourth movie ever to win Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actress and Actor. Man, is this amazing!!!! See immediately then buy the soundtrack!!!!
UPDATE: Saw it for the 6th time yesterday at the Chinese Theater in IMAX. I. Still. Love. This. Movie. !!!!!!
UPDATE: Took my fam to see it the other night for #7. Still great!
UPDATE: Saw this last night at the Hollywood Bowl, making it my 8th time on the big screen. And I gotta say, my friend and I had an epic epic nightmare of a battle making it to the show and we were 20 minutes into movie when we got there but this movie is so special and spectacular it got us out of our funk instantly. Love it! Then I went home and watched it on blu-ray to hear the commentary man oh man I love this movie. Okay done with updates now that it's on home vid.
