Divergent is the first movie in an young-adult dystopian series, created on the model of Hunger Games. Great success, and quite enjoyable, comparative with that absurd Hunger Games. I have to say that I couldn't bring myself to watch the sequels. They have no logic. But this post is about Divergent, not Hunger Games. This is a movie made after the first volume of Divergent trilogy, which is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels by Veronica Roth. The trilogy consists of … [Read more...]
Movies
Movies of all kind from an artistic point of view, reviews or opinions.
Spread
"Spread", directed by David Mackenzie, is a movie I wanted to present earlier, maybe after Holidays. I've seen it ... years ago, when Ashton Kutcher was still married with Demi Moore phenomenon. It is a movie about nothing. You know, I'm sometimes reviewing movies with no sense, but very popular at the time of their release. I have had a few more fresh, and really more educational movies to write of before this one, but some aspects of it attracted me at this very moment. [source: … [Read more...]
Midnight’s Children – The Movie
One of the most acclaimed novels of all times, Midnight's Children, by the highly controversial author, Salman Rushdie , has been put on screen by another Indian, who lives in Canada now, Deepa Mehta. I have read the book a few times, it's the best book ever written by Rushdie, and it's also the most awarded of his entire creation. He is partly famous because of a major controversy, created by his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, which provoked protests from Muslims in the whole world. Death … [Read more...]
Soul Kitchen
I wanted from the beginnings of this blog to feature one of the most talented directors alive, who happens to be Turk. Fatih Akın is a Hamburger Turk, born in 1973. I have seen and enjoyed almost all his movies, even his fragments in the collective humanitarian releases, like New York, I Love You, or Visions of Europe. Soul Kitchen is a 2009 German movie, directed by Akin (you see, I started to use his European surname spelling, with "i" instead of the Turkish "ı"). The movie is also written by … [Read more...]
The Grand Budapest Hotel
All the great directors are evolving with time, but this theory is not always proven, sometimes they play with their viewers more than necessary. It's not the case here, The Grand Budapest Hotel is the best movie to date, made by Wes Anderson, a director already featured in my blog, with his moving puppets animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox. Mister Anderson has also written the movie, a metaphor of old times in some invented place in Europe, with a few unrelated names on it. [source: all pictures … [Read more...]
Team America: World Police
Team America: World Police is a metaphor expressed as a parody. It shows a high sense of humor and the most rare of all senses, the sense of ridicule. There aren't many people gifted with that. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, two of the best comic creators alive, are known by you from South Park. There's another quirk with South Park. You like it or you hate it. I think that in between can sneak the guys who don't get it (like the ones who don't get Twitter, an army, actually). This is humor, … [Read more...]
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