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Ricordare Anna (2004)
Drama of a family dying of AIDS
A father in search of forgiveness revisits places, emotions and mistakes from the past and in the process discovers a way out of his paralyzing loneliness.
When Anna dies of aids a world collapses for her father. Viktor blames his Sicilian son-in-law Salvo, the love of Anna's life. He has broken off all contact with him.
Several years later Viktor has still not come to terms with his loss. But he also starts having doubts and realizes that to find peace he needs to know the truth. So he sets off in search of Salvo who returned to Italy after Anna's death.
In Palermo Viktor discovers traces of his daughter. He meets people who knew Anna at a time when she seemed already to have slipped away from him. On his journey through her life a fascinating world which he never knew until now is revealed to him.
Ricordare Anna is two love stories in one; it tells of the love of a father for his daughter and of a young woman from the North for a young man from the South.
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Very well done!
The film is very well done. It's funny, it has greate animations and it has a hole bunch of new ideas. The mix of real movie (10%) and cartoon (90%) is okay, but a too much constructed (a white human cell who can leave the human body AND come back is a little to much for me). But I'm sure other adult persons will have as much fun as I had while I was watching this movie. And for parents OR children who spend the most time sitting in front of the TV and eating chips, it's just perfect ;-)
Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996)
Just Terrible!
I was scared the the whole time when I was watching this movie. But not scared of the story or the "horror", but scared of what terrible thing the producers of the movie will do wrong in the next scene. In some horror movies you're not scared but you can laugh. In Leprechaun 4 you can't do this either. You can only shake your head and switch the TV off. The acting is terrible (Reminds me of "My first Schoolmovie" in th age of ten) and so the special effects are (computer effects are one with Microsoft's Paint I guess!!!). No honestly, there's nothing in this movie that makes it worth looking.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Too far away from the book
The book takes the (ultra-)violance in its focus, while the movies does the same with the sexual aspects. Perhaps this has to do with the cirsumstances when Stanley produces this movie...Flower Power...
So I was a little disappointed because people will get a wrong impression about the book, when they just see the movie. Also the ending didn't say that much as the text does (to be a little piece of a clockwork and have its fixed place, take place in the normal way/circle of life and so on).
But perhaps it was the right thing, when Stanley made the movie less brutal than the book... otherwise he would have produced a ultra-hard splatter/horror picture or as Alex always said: "a real horrorshow" ;-)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Read the book, it's far better than the movie!
Fortunately not many well written books end in good movies (Forrest Gump or The Lord of the Rings are well known examples that it's possible to make a good movie) - so nor here. The director took out important elements from the text or changed it that way, that the characters presents not the way they (in the book) are. Also the "Big Nurse" isn't that diabolic as in the book (because of missing confrontations between her an the "new dangerous patient").
If you read the book, expect that you'll be disappointed. If you haven't read the book yet (an probably only watched the movie) read it...and get a much better impression of the things Ken Kensey wanted to say in its great text!