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Assault on Wallstreet is a good story of the depth of the stock-market and how it influences the local citizens. This is a good story revealing how it must be for the little man and how the little man loses all while the financial elite continue to live a high quality of life on Wall-Street. The male lead character is not happy being a poor man as the rich get richer. This movie shows the emotion, anger and pain it feels like to be helpless in a seemingly rigged financial USA system. The depth that the lead male character goes through is intense, as he does not stop with one mishap (the assault and taxi hit and run situation). This movie is able to bring a human face to the financial crisis. Perhaps that is what the director intended on doing. The message came loud and clear to me: for some life deals a raw hand of cards.

Denzel Washington plays an excellent role here. He is an alcoholic who admits he is an alcoholic and in the end he admits this. He admits he can no longer lie. One good quote is "I betrayed the public's trust." The scenes of the airplane turbulence are very life-like. The director also directed the movie Contact. Both have long scenes were there is no talking, more visuals, which I enjoyed.

The scene of the National Transportation safety board is an excellent professional portrayal of a good investigation.

Robot and Frank is a good film. It is about medical ethics and the use of robots. On the one hand it seems like Frank has a form of dementia, which contributes to the plot. The robot is Frank's care-giver but also a pal who helps him steal, create new projects and get a piece of his memory back. Stealing here is Frank's past-time. Frank considers it a kind of skill and a kind of hobby which excites Frank. Having a partner in crime (the robot) makes Frank a little bit more hopeful in life.I believe the main question in this movie is about how ethical is robotics? Can a human befriend a robot? Can a robot do what humans cannot do? Can the robot be programmed to help a sick human?

Knowing is a movie about a family of a father and a son. The son gets a letter from a school time-capsule that changes both him and his father's life. This movie has some reality and non-reality elements; so it is on the verge of a science fiction movie combined with a tale of dementia or imagination which appears to have been caused when the wife and mother died. The element of alcohol and hurt could have been the cause of the twists and turns in this movie. But for the most part it is a straight forward logical science fiction natural disaster movie. I do not know how the screen play writer came up with this type of movie nor why however I found it to be creative. Very good special effects and Nicolas Cage plays a good role.

Uncle John is a movie where there is quite a bit of suspense. The suspense is built up by the use of the camera and by the play of assumptions. For example, at the start of the movie, the camera shows that a man is stumbling to the end of a dead-end and he walks into the river whilst another man is following him. The camera does not zoom in on the scab on the back of the victim's head but the second man behind him is carrying a paddle - which looks like the weapon that caused the death of the first man. As the story unfolds the camera focuses on micro dialogues which zooms in on details. For example, when Uncle John goes to the parking space of Dutch's car, his brother is already sitting there - and says something to the effect of: it is known that killers often come back to the place they placed false evidence or where they killed their victims. Dutch's brother then stares at Uncle John. It seemed obvious to me Dutch's brother was aware Uncle John was the killer. The use of the bonfire and the isolation of people in small towns added to the setting.

Land of Mine is about Nazi soldiers who are so young some seem to be 14 years old. World World II ends and the Nazi soldiers who victimized the Danes are now being victimized by the Danes by the loss of the war. This shows how absurd war is. There are beautiful shots of long beaches filled with smooth looking orange sand. But the sandy beaches are covered with land mines. The Nazi soldiers who are POW's now are forced to dismantle the land mines. This movie played on my conscious. While I watched the movie, I was wondering if the Nazi soldiers POW's did not need to be released as the war was over. This movie was disturbing to me because I do not believe in the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Yes, the Nazi soldiers had a history of being terrible to the Danes; then after the war ended some Danes (like in this movie) became visibly terrible to the former Nazi's. This kind of behaviour makes my stomach turn - as each group suffered at the hand of an aggressor. In a way this movie shows the worse side of humanity. There were pieces of kindness scattered through the film - but in essence - it appeared like many generals in charge practiced their authority in a corrupt way.

The movie The Distinguished Citizen is a parody of the question: what is art? The movie opens up with the lead player receiving an award. An award with lots of status attached to it. As the movie takes the player forward into time, the lead actor, owns a mansion filled with books in Barcelona - high in the mountains and overlooking the cityscape below. The Distinguished Citizen, (which I think should be called, The Distinguished Gentleman because the lead actor is very similar in style to Richard Gere, a very suave man of a high class) seems to have a void inside of him, because the film shots seem to suggest a loneliness. In order to attempt at filling this void the lead actor travels to his home town. There one episode of dismay merges into another episode of dismay - however in a round-about way, this is exactly what the lead actor appeared to be wanting and needing in his soulless life - which appeared void of human meaning. Somehow, the lead character emerges from everything in a very positive way and in the end he becomes even more successful than before. I like movies that have a good beginning, middle and clear end, and this was one of those movies. It was a good film experience for me.

Beatriz at Dinner explains the story from the perspective of a Mexican woman who is struggling in America. This struggle comes forth when her car breaks down at one of her wealthiest client's houses. In a way Beatriz is trapped, perhaps because she is without finances. She calls a friend who will help her with her car, at first after dinner time and then it turns out to be the next day. This causes problems because he client who is the wife of a multi-millionaire is about to meet his boss and co-worker for a business dinner party. Mike Smith was the one that wrote this story. The writing was done exceptionally well. There was a lot of tension in this movie, like two enemies of war put together in the same room, one with power and the other with zero. Beatriz's personal story about how her village was destroyed and all she has left are her memories is a prime example of the cowboy mentality that seeps into all parts of this movie. This movie had one setting really, inside and around the house. This movie was set up like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Closer to the end, I would have liked the tow truck driver to have saved Beatriz because he could clearly see she was about to drown. Beatriz character was like Holy Mother Mary. She sacrificed herself for the sake of the arrogant pigs. She died in order to protect and save their lives. A very selfless act. A good act. However suicide is no answer.

A Ghost Story is a movie about the Holy Ghost. At the beginning of the movie it seems like the ghost is Cassie Afflicks' character, but this is not the case at all, and is revealed at the end of the movie. This singular ghost, which is dressed up in a white bed sheet, is like Casper the ghost. He, in my opinion, does not haunt. This ghost, which I believe to be a male ghost, is kind of like a spirit (good and / or bad) who watches over humanity and humans like the photographer / film camera operator watches, records and witnesses all kinds of angels of human life. I do not think this movie is about love; as it is about life.

The movie named: Good Time, is anything but a good time. It is not about luxury, rich finances and Wall Street. Instead it is about a middle aged man with a developmental disability and his creative brother who is a criminal. What makes this movie special is the cinematic styles of very creative film frames combined with very unique self-developed sound effects (like an echo in a time warp machine) and the flash blurry mixed camera frame shots. In a way, this movie was like a Tarantino's 1994 movie Pulp Fiction. To me, this movie Good Time could become a 2017 cult-movie like The Rocky Picture Horror Show (1975). This story-line was a warped story line from beginning to end; nothing good happens and everything is set-up to fail. However Constantine is a sympathetic character. He, in his own way, cares about his brother a lot and wants to protect him in the way he knows how. Throughout the entire movie, Constantine continues to come up with artistic ways of survival. It is clear that Constantine is living on borrow time; but time and time again he escapes the tightest of dead-ends - and he keeps a spirit about him. His attitude is similar to Jack Nicolson character in Five Easy Pieces (1970), which was set to become an All-American movie genre (but did not).

Wind River is a very dark movie. It is dark because it is based on a true story. This movie is not a movie about a hunter and a FBI agent instead it is a movie about First Nations people in a State in America. It is about poverty, a neglected police force on the reserve and it is about very deeply wrought subject-matter that is still too deep to really talk about in our societies.

The movie opens up in a Lord of the Rings, Elfish setting kind of a way, with beautiful women dressed in exotic gear with special designs on the outfits. One little girl is the smallest out of the bunch and the camera follows her. She is a born fighter. It turns out that Wonder Woman is Ares, the God of War. She has not been made out of clay but rather she has been implanted in this universe to sow seeds of corruption, hate and greed. Ares' adversary is a Robot Machine villain who comes alive at the end of the comic film. The Robot Machine looks like a combination of Sauron and Terminator (1984) robots. In the last couple of scene sequences, Woman Woman (2017) has Ares and the Robot Machine villain fighting each other. Ares gains strength through the Robot Machine and develops even more special powers, and in the end Ares lives and the Robot Machine parishes. Ares (Wonder Woman) is like an undercover villain that looks good on the outside by betrays citizens at the same time; and is both good and evil: much like the rest of humanity.

Solace is a good name for this movie. It means peace and quiet. Anthony Hopkins character is a psyche and he chases another psychic who appears to be even better than he is. This is the climax of the movie. In the end, the audience is left with one impending question: was the perpetrator really a criminal or more like a super-hero with mercy for the victims who had terminal illnesses, suffering and undeniably short-lived lives?

This movie has a lot of flash forwards - which is opposite to flash-backs which show the actors in their past historical memories. The flash forwards are captured by the camera in an array of multiple screen sequencing and representing the future and psyche visions.

There is a minor conflict between the good psychic and a police officer who is a psychologist. However that conflict is quickly overcome when the good psychic, Anthony Hopkins, takes a liking to the police psychologist. A friendship develops putting all conflict aside.

This movie shows Winston Churchill in a panic mode and a politician that is basing his decisions on history (i.e. War World I and the loss of British soldiers) and his own personal fear and guilt. The movie Churchill 2017 is somewhat similar to Oliver Stone's movie called Nixon about Richard Nixon who shows his weakness to the audience but then more or less pulls everything together for the public's eye.

This movie is spoken in the language of Norway. It opens up with a group of young adults making jokes and fooling around. However at that same time, the Second World War has opened up and their antics become more serious as the film develops. Max Manus, through chance, becomes to be pretty good at sabotaging Nazi ships and he also becomes pretty good at escaping the confounds of jail and torture, where some of his friends are not so lucky. Manus, the lead character in this movie, is an unpretentious man who has some admirable qualities which the Norwegian government appears to be recognizing. Unlike the movie Anthropoid, this movie did not have a straight-forward plot nor climax. Instead the viewer is guessing as to what will transpire. Tom Cruise in movies like Mission Impossible, is a way better actor then the actor that plays Max Manus. I found this war movie to have little suspense and very little action. Perhaps this movie could have better been made into a documentary, with the personal testimony of Max Manus and his wife, combined with actual photographs and writing accounts.

A. Hitchcock is the original film-maker of Psycho. However this 1998 re-make is a good map of the original. There are a very details that I do not remember from the original happening. For example, in the 1998 re-make one of female main characters steals $400,000. This detail I do not recall in the original movie. Furthermore, I do not recall from the original that one of the main characters was in an extramarital affair with a man. These 2 elements in the 1998 Psycho seems to (in a way) justify the murder of the main female actress. These components were, as far as I remember not part of the original story. So this contrasts the original story. In the original movie, A. Hitchcock creates a lot of suspense through his sharp camera and cinematic detailing; whereas in the 1998 movie of the same title does not have the same effect on me. In the 1998 Psycho movie, it almost seems like the main female character that gets murdered is somewhat justified because she is an immoral (having an affair with a married man) as well as a criminal (stealing money from her organization) - I do not recall this being the case this the original. (At the same time, I believe Hitchcock was not concerned with moral issues; he was more concerned with film: suspense, camera work and art as a whole - this is a more positive thing to me).

Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album 2016 is a movie about tables, cut-off music sections and film shots of random unknown audience members in an unknown lecture hall. In a way the movie was like an interpretation of the Beatles' White Album through the eyes of one man - the presenter. The presenter gossips about the Beatles' private life and their girlfriends; he makes assumptions that may or may not be true (was the Black bird about a bird in India or a 1970's civil rights activist?) and he stands on the stage next to his own digital power-point presentation slides as if he is the inventor of the Beatles. Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album is more a movie to be seen on a YouTube broadcast then on a big screen (where I saw it). The Beatles' White Album is cut to pieces and taken a part by the male presenter who stands on a theater stage with red velvet curtains hanging down around him. The presenter of the Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album talks about this album as if it was a car that he was taking apart and then re-engineering to his own liking - throwing out the bits he does not like and amplifying the bits he likes.

Megan Leavey is an American movie about a K9 unit that goes to Iraq to diffuse minefield bombs. Megan is the name of the woman who gets the marine dog called Rex. Megan herself has some lasting effects of the Iraq war in her psyche when she leaves Iraq and she finds the substitute for proper one on one therapy by focusing her attention on her K9. Both her and her K9 are part of the USA marine force. In general they have been trained to work together and at the same time - when the mission ends - to move on without one another. Rex is not trained for civilian life - he is a trained killer dog and at the same time Rex can pin-point bombs which can help to save the lives of the American soldiers in Iraq. All in all a domestic bond is not in the cards for the two of them; or is it?

Anthropoid is a movie with a very fast laid out plot which enables the viewer to understand the story-line with an ease. It is unfortunate that the good guys need to die in the end; however they were soldiers on a mission - which both failed and succeeded at the same time. Most movies about good and bad guys often do not have a clear plot but that was not the case here. This movie director made it clear from the beginning that the 2 soldiers were in Prague to assassinate a powerful Nazi leader, who was known to have been the one and only one who developed the Holocaust Concentration Camps all over East Europe.

The movie Final Girl is a kind of a psychological cult film genre. The young girl sits opposite an adult man in a police station interrogation room at the beginning of the movie. This young girl is not like other girls her age because she is not emotional at the loss of her parents. In fact she is stone logical. This set of logical is noticed by the male interrogator whom then takes the young child and develops her into a killer. The male adult determines the 4 young men that the now 18 year old woman, with physical and psychological training needs to take on as some kind of a test of her violence. The 4 chosen young men are no doubt bad men however both sides: the woman and the 4 men all were lured into each others traps - each was going to kill the other side. To me this movie was not properly developed because the young girl, who is the main character did not have any character development. The viewer could not really feel an emotional connection to the girl because she appeared to be void of emotion.

This movie, "Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," 2017 is a psychological segmentation of cutting the songs of the Beatles apart. When someone cuts the songs apart and dissects every single thing the songs lose their magic. In this movie the presenter uses little self made graphs and tables to show the audience the types of musical instruments the Beatles used, combined with the sound effects they self-created. This movie is kind of like a music lesson explaining how 50 years ago these musicians used their creativity and self-invented many things whereas in today's world we have Mac Pro's to do all the work for the musician with incredible easy."Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" had no purpose. There was no message nor theme in this movie. The presenter was also not a well-grounded professor - in the way that he did not supersede the songs value; in other words - he did not make the analytical works his own - and he did not bring a further understanding and knowledge to the movie viewer about the songs. I have no idea how this movie made it to the big box movie theaters, as it is an educational tool (to be stored in a High School library) not an actual movie for theater audiences. I believe this movie would have been a lot better if it was done by the Beatles themselves; and I do not know why it was not. Perhaps they did not want to reveal the magic of their songs, and preferred to keep that a mystery to the listeners.

This movie is about one specific elephant. The life of this elephant included street begging on the one hand; but on the other hand elephants in Buddhist Thailand have a sacred position within the Thai society. The elephant, such as the one in the movie, are considered to be the form of life the first Buddha (Sidhartha)had when through a dream was implanted into the womb of the mother. The role of the elephant is almost like the role of a sacred human being. The street elephant is a religious icon in the Thai Buddhist culture. At the same time the owner of the street elephant needs to make a living from this elephant. In a sense the elephant is like an art form, a heritage piece and a holy entity and a dirty rat at the same time - with no use in Modern day society and big city politics, globalization and capitalism. Lucky for this specific Asian type elephant, that through the filming of his life, the Royalty of Thailand inserted the elephant into a wild life sanctuary because otherwise the Thai family supporting the elephant and the elephant himself would have died in despair and utter poverty.

Stephen King's books which the movie "Dark Tower" is based often combines spooky with elements of both good and evil.

"Dark Tower" is a movie that I feel represents our 2017 age very well. Jake Chambers is a small boy that has a shining which can mean his ability to see into other worlds as well as to draw those other worlds; much like in the movie "Close encounters of the Third Kind" 1977 - where the lead actor continue to draw a site that represents a meeting point with aliens. In this movie, young Jake Chambers, a child who lost his father and who has a kind of step-father in his life, that does not actually like the poor boy.

Jake Chamber is a kind of superhero. He is a kind and good boy who does end up saving the world from evil and darkness.

This movie was very fun to watch because Stephen King's movies are always pretty predictable; with good versus evil, like in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy combined with Stephen King's own motives of what he perceives as good and evil.

My Cousin Rachel is a movie about love and try to find ones place in the world. The movie circles around 2 people Rachel and a man. The movie is set in the 1900's in England. A 25 year old man is going to inherit a house on his 25th birthday but somehow he thinks he can financially trick Rachel into marrying her and keeping his house at the same time. Rachel can see through this act and once he gives her the house she keeps it and has no intention of losing it. This makes the man very angry, but the view does not really understand why. Is he angry because he lost his house or because she wants to keep it in her name? Why can he not be content with her not marrying him? Does he need to own her, like he owns the house? Is this why Rachel does not want to marry him, in the first place? Is she looking to be a respected, individual woman who has some power instead of being subservient to her potential husband? This sequence of questioning arises through the cinematic camera work, the close - ups of the actors and the facial gestures all lined up together. The dialogue is both clear and enigmatic as it is charged with undetermined outcomes.

Christopher Nolan, the Director of this film did a very good job at explaining a close to impossible story of failure on the shores of Dunkirk France in the 1940's. The movie opens up with an unknown British soldier walking into the French town of Dunkirk. The French forces are holding off the Nazis as best as they can behind a sandbag homemade barricade. In a way, it seems the French, through their ability to block one of the only streets leading to the Dunkirk beach, saved the lives of the British soldiers; and at the same time the British soldiers in the movie would not allow the French to escape with them on their sea vessels. This detail explains the complexity of war and the expression - all is fair in love and war. Christopher Nolan captures the true essence of the unknown British soldier and his need to survive against all the odds. The filming and the visual narratives showed the viewer the component of luck in many of the survival maneuvers. However, Dunkirk is also known historical to be an ultimate failure on the part of the British; and at the same time a miracle that three hundred thousand British soldiers were able to survive this defeat without being slaughtered by gun-fire, bombs and explosions. Christopher Nolan is a great film director for telling a somewhat open ended story and leaving the unraveling up to the viewer. Like a good novel the author leaves the interpretation up to the viewer. Christopher Nolan, intentional or not filmed this movie, Dunkirk in a dream sequence. Dreams are often collages of piece of visuals that at first make no sense, but on thinking about it, makes lots of sense. Dunkirk 2017 had three narratives: earth; air and water. Dunkirk 2017 was a very original movie. I have not seen a movie is this style before. The detailed camera work and special effects were pin pointed on accuracy. The sight of the spinning spitfire propeller while shooting the Nazis was miraculous. The long Dunkirk beach and the North Sea had some kind of religious aspect about it. The sea itself seems to be a monster. Also the visuals of all the sea foam on the beach caused by the crashing of the waves was like something in a Renaissance painting of Zeus, Venus and Aphrodite. As a viewer, one could almost taste the sea foam. Dunkirk was a failure for the British but in happened at the start of World War II and if all the soldiers would have been wiped out on the Dunkirk beach in 1940, there would have been no soldiers left to fight the Nazis. The British soldiers were able to fight another day; and in the end, the British and the Allied forces were able to bring down the Nazis, which probably would not have been possibly with out these specific soldiers there to help.