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Kate-me
I like realism(Cassavetes), somberness(Bergman), and whimsy(Chaplin).
My favorite Hollywood decades are the 20s-30s(Charlie Chaplin silents(20s) and screwball comedies like My Man Godfrey and Bringing Up Baby('38)) and the 60s-70s(all all John Cassavetes(70s), Midnight Cowboy('69), Five Easy Pieces(70s), and They Shoot Horses, Don't They('69).
I never watch a film that doesn't leave me thinking. I prefer films that have cathartic elements because I think the point of art/cinema is to be moved.
Reviews
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Wonderful
This is so sad and so hard to watch. It shows us what a HUGE role vanity plays in our life. God some of the scenes are so hard to watch. They feel so real. You can Feel David's pain. Its perfect. I think the scenes when he is alone in his apartment are the best. You can just see the paon and humility and Rejection he feels. He cant even function in society. The people are just SO rude to him because of his looks? Its pathetic how much weight we put on the way someone looks. It leaves me always feeling as if I've just had a catharsis. Life is so fragile and short and it just makes you question what really matters. I think the imagery Crowe uses is amazing. The scenes in the park at fall? The music fits every scene perfectly. Just a great film with such natural acting. It flows well and it will make you think.
Blonde (2001)
A wonderful fictional imagining of a Legend
The book Blonde was meant to be a FICTIONAL study of Marilyn Monroe's life. To other commentators: do not get hyped up over this movie being untrue. If you read the first few pages of the book; Joyce Carol Oates (the author) says that this is a PURELY FICTIONAL book and that if one wishes to know facts about Marilyn, they should consult biographical sources. This movie should not be taken so literally! It is simply an imagining by one woman about the mentality of a legend. I think it is a beautiful, fascinating film. Wonderful acting and far more interesting than any of the previous films. If you want a real story, do not consult this film as the author of Blonde herself says it is not Fact just pure imagining Fiction. If you focus on the overall,universal themes of this movie/novel you will see that it applies to every woman in our society at some time or another. That is why this book was written. It is about the vulnerability we all have and how we can be taken advantage of. It is about the destructive machine that was the 1950s "studio". Great work.