Thanks to Netflix for giving the Alex Garland room for this masterfully produced sermon. The Oxford atheist turned Christian; C.S.Lewis learned from St. Augustine and him from The old book, that all is created good, but evil is a perversion or a distortion of the true image in which all is created. So evil is lack of true good as in misuse, lie, unfaithfulness - all these vices are destructive since they are lesser foods for the true food that all souls hunger for (turning into idols). This great movie is a classic pilgrimage to the lighthouse (I am the light of the world) by 5 women turned in some way by their choices or by loss into less than they where memt to be. The story in this fine biblical narrative is An Uncreation taking place, since evil is a parasite on being and hence must dissolve it self in the end into a mere shadow (like the result of a phosphorus explosive) - but ONE drop of blood (Calvary) may restore all and shame and sin will be washed away. What comes of that NEW CREATION The part takers won't even know. This is 17th century Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" in great new setting. Bless Your heart guys for making this.
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
(2016)
no skill
29 October 2016
this is a very bad made movie on all levels. I know that Cruise can act, but the craftmanship of this piece of work is nonexcisting, so Cruise is left in bad lighting, fellowacting, cutting, camera-work and storytelling. This director, Zwick is either tired or have previously been guided by ghost-directors and he must know someone in the industry, since this gets to cinema in Denmark, while great stuff never sees the light of day. This is at the highest a late night cableflick - not even TV, because they are ages ahead of this clonking, rattling boheamoth. It is homemovie buffed up, and I seriously have to go back to horror movies straight-to-VHS in the 80ies to find its kin. the positive reviews here on IMDb must be related somehow to the hundreds of people, who made this oldschool TV detergent commercial.
Gomorrah
(2014–2021)
Bravo
10 May 2014
This series developed from the masterfully gloomy movie of the same title puts Italian production up close and center. This is very well crafted, with a impressive camera precision even though it's within the Gritty-style of modern cinema. Here and there you'll see some very inventive camera directing (a motorcycle-crash comes close to the best vehicle-scene I have seen since the first "Mad Max"). It is a rough and gray view of mob-crime in a dystopia Italy, but even though the setting is the same ghetto as the movie "Gomorra" the social-realism of the movie is toned down by the producers, in order for a more character-driven narrative to emerge - that is good. This is a brilliant authentic-Italian and promising series, that recalls Sergio Leones "Once upon a time in America" just without wide angel and widescreen. And again it contains some of the technically best non-computer generated action-sequences I have seen since Michael Mann. BRAVO! Forza Italia! from Denmark.
The Counselor
(2013)
crime and punishment
21 March 2014
It is rare these days to have a movie made by a visualist like Scott, that at the same time takes the time in a almost classical theater-like sense to leave the dialog demanding the viewer to uphold the mind and spirit in order to grasp the spiritual depths that is required in order to reach the depth of damnation. This is a Christian movie about choice and consequences in a fallen world - sad to see, that the decadence of our time has left the viewers disconnected to the wisdom of the gospel and the spirit on witch the west was build. The Counsellor is at the end a movie about the downfall of the west, by greed, decadence - and open home being ravished by the evil that men do. "What good is wisdom, if it brings no wisdom to the wise" - I believe is said to Mickey Rourke by Robert de Niro's Louis Cifer in the old masterpiece "Angle Heart" - that movie about the loss of ones soul is being quoted by Pitt in the bar-scene. Excellent movie this is. Overlooked and misunderstood.
Norwegian Wood
(2010)
shallow grave
3 January 2012
This pretentious movie is beyond art-house-cinema at its worst, because it isn't art. Because it has no touch what so ever with human emotions it is unbearable to watch, and you cannot help feeling, that it must all of sudden turn into a comedy - but unfortunately it does not. It wants to be a movie about sexuality and loss, but since it is made by the mind of a materialist it looks and feels like a series of scenes with abused young actors in a bad commercial for a dress-label and a Russian vodka. It wants to show off and take an existential view on the important and always vivid subject of coming-of-age, but the level of wisdom and spiritual depth is perhaps the most shallow, I have seen since "plan 9 from outer space". Watch Bille August "Zappa" or Jacob Aron Estes' "Mean creek" instead.
True Grit
(2010)
True to the grit of the true western
24 February 2011
A Western is, when it is true, a song that pays homage to the soul of the western civilization - that grit which build the land - we must remember, that USA is founded on a spirit - an old spirit from the Christian homelands from whence the settlers left - a spirit of courage and good heart that may die, if no one sings about it - in recent times most songs about the old west have been cynical, brutal and in reality self-loathing - then comes this movie from the Coens - true to the fantastic book, that should be obligatory school-classic, and it is marvelous, what the brothers have made here - the best since Ford and The Duke passed on - and thank you, guys for keeping the Christian matrix of the old story - for it is both a story about integrity and true grit and also a hymn about justice, sin and being saved from the "snake-pit" of hell "when the man comes around!". 10/10
Edge of Darkness
(2010)
Gibson is the John Ford of our times
15 February 2010
Gibson has won the most difficult of prices: our trust in his honesty. We believe in his integrity and accept therefore his human condition - Gibson is a man, a sinner, a braveheart and a fighter - and it is all written in his fac ial expressions. He is like the men of Peckinpah, the lonely riders of John Ford. I like this movie, not because it is masterly crafted - it looks at times like a TV-production on the BBC - but because the story is about Mel Gibson and the virtues that build the western civilization: a man and his heart - and it isn't easy to follow your heart, it is often the hardest road, because it wants truth and justice - and you often end up alone and battered when you take that path - like the main character of Gibson in these movie, like Gibson in "Braveheart", like "Apocalypto" and most of all like once on Calvary -"The passion of the Christ"!
Donnie Darko
(2001)
paraphrase on the gospel
1 August 2008
Warning: Spoilers
This movie is widely misunderstood. Most critics fail to see, that this is not a David Lynch wannabe in a spooky-comming-of-age-in-the-80's-flick. This is a modern fairytale about the passion of Christ. Notice that this boy is tormented by the anxiety of loneliness in the face of death (the prophecy from the rabbit, that the end of the world is near). The meaning of the narrative as well as spiritually first appears for us and the troubled young man as choice of sacrificing for love takes the gloom out of life and the movie. The turning point of the movie is placed when the young lovers a attending a screening of Raimi's "Evil Dead". In the theater the tormented youngster decides to follow the rabbit (down the hole) and burn the fake evangelists house down eventually disclosing the hollow moralists lies and diabolical misleading of the school kids (remember the scene where the young man calls the moral-preacher "the Antichrist" in front of the school). As he leaves the movie-theater to follow the advice of the rabbit, the young man passes under the billboards, where the two main features of the cinema are announced: The last temptation of Christ - the evil dead. When these two movies are placed together, they point towards the message of the movie - when you are tempted to think, that dying is always meaningless even for the ones you love, you are a victim of the anxiety, that even tried to get a hold of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. But as the young man gives life back to the girl he loves, by paying with his own (placing himself in the room, where the jet-engine crashes) - he dies with a smile, he sacrifices himself - in the spirit of Christ - hence giving meaning to a cold and superficial world of shallow psychiatry and cheap morality. Watch it again - and this time let the fairytale of the oldest truth outshine the appearance of the surreal. This is not Lynch - it's Pecinpah drunk on joy.
V for Vendetta
(2005)
left-wing terror-propaganda
13 November 2007
This movie is a symptom of our time: wrapped in SM-dolls and action-cliché we get a badly hidden glorification of left wing terror. I mean blowing up parliament and feeling great about it! Is this the hero of our time? Once this masked coward fights against an coldwar caricature of a fascist by blowing up the building that represent the oldest democracy - the building that even is wrapped with our Lords prayer around the walls, I think to myself: Are the cineasts of these days so set on breaking down all old and firm set orders, that they applaud this demonstration of anti-western violence and terror - even the koran is praised - or are they really so in loss of spirit and education that the action alone is an excuse for barbarianism.
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