Films

Absolutely superb movie. Exactly the kind of story I love; of a man raising himself to unimaginable heights and then his world crumbling around him. Yet, the ascent was worth it. From Dust to Dust.

honestly just picking up a book in those moments. well regardless I'm well educated enough through filmtwt I suppose.

This was a really fun movie to watch. nothing particularly groundbreaking, but Pitt and Statham are great in this. In general just a fan of this epoch of clearly declined yet still somewhat relevant england. One still sees in the older men that there was once something there in that country, and how some of the problems just haven't changed that much from the world wars to then. Overall, perfect to have watched alone and drunk in a hotel.

A good watch! It follows a wife who hires a "mistress dispeller" for her husband, in an attempt to break up his affair and thus keep the family intact (or as intact as still possible). What I enjoyed most was the mundanity of it; how a man who is stuck in his life decides to do something just to, for a moment, feel a tinge of aliveness. How another far younger woman throws herself at this slob, just for validation... Are these feelings of love and deep appreciation for the world rare? As in, does the median affair just mean less because the love was never as strong in the first place? Then again, this is how all who have loved must feel. Their own little experience, so euphoric for them, smoothes out into a statistic.

It goes without saying that this Film is extremely long. This, in addition to having to read subtitles for the entire runtime, made for a rather exhausting watch. The plot centres around a group of schoolchildren in Taiwan, and the fight between rival gangs there ultimately culminating in the murder of a girl. The story is a true one, and it doesn't shy away from the rather bleak realities of the characters lives. Their slow coming of age, from first kisses to fights to an enjoyment of music... There are the usual plotpoints of needing to get into the better school, parents grappling with joblessness and all that is the utter regularness of peoples lives. My favourite character is probably Honey, the charismatic and honourable gangleader, whose pride is ultimately his downfall.

It has been a few months and this really hasn't been on my mind in a while; It was worth the watch and feels almost like a novel in that sense. I'd recommend it to someone to enjoy with a friend, to plan to talk for a long time after and maybe even at some breaks in between. I recommend reading this review for more.

Naturally I watched this because of the edits, but really I should've watched it way earlier. It's simply an excellent movie, and one in which dicaprio doesn't just act the same character, like he sometimes seems to do. It is a tragic movie, and worth revisiting. What is this world here we're fighting over, this glorious future with machines of loving grace. What happens then with the holes of the world which, despite us not forgetting them, have forgotten themselves. It is love of course that triumphs here in the end. And so it shall be in our case also. If you have someone, hug them tight. I do no see how it gets much easier from here on out