Sieben Tage Sonntag

(Sunday seven days long)

Me and my friend decided, despite the bad surprises on many Tuesday, to go to the Sneak. And we were both surprised to have such luck, even though most other people in the cinema that I could hear, weren´t as convinced as we were. It´s a true story by the way. When the film ended we were sitting in our seats with just one question in mind: why? And even though my friend Lisa told me many times before that she couldn´t talk about films right after she saw them we were discussing this one the whole way back. Why did they do it? Is it "right" to make a movie about it? Is it a "wrong" certificate in a way for the criminals? First when you watch it, you have to slow down, it´s not one of the fast, thrilling action movies. It developes quite slowly, we see the two main characters, two 16 year old boys that left school already and bore themselves through the days. We have the feeling to get to know them a bit, even that we think we could assess their actions. And for no special reason one night they decide to kill somebody, the next one they meet, no matter who. And they do it, for nor special reason (it seems) with extraordinary brutality. They don´t feel guilty, ashamed or what else you could feel. Nothing. We can´t read their faces, but in the end we realise in a very short scene, when the psychoanalist asks the one boy about some guardian, that his father in in prison, "and the mother?"-"You can forget her", that actually it´s nothing at all we know about the boys, it was just some short cut out of their life. The soundtrack is outstanding, the pictures are intense and like art, the camerawork is very detailled, precise and concentrated. I found the pictures and coulors combined with the soundtrack extremly strong.

Underworld Evolution

Here we go, this is the second part of the Underworld-story. I liked this one, too. Even though it consists a very useless and bad made sex scene, but I think one can easily cut this out of mind. To the plot: Selene and Michael are on the run. She had killed Victor, therefor she has to be judged. Michael has become a new kind of creature, the unimaginable mixture of vampire and lycan. With a power none of them can foresee at this point. The eldest and now most powerful vampire-lord is awoken, Marcus, he hunts the two lovers because Selene is the key to the place where his brother, the first and most dangerous lycan, is imprisoned, never to be found. They learn about vampire-lycan history and Marcus pulls a bloody line wherever he appears. Untill the end-battle decides about the future of humanity.

 

Underworld

You like Vampire movies? Than this is one you should definitaly watch. It´s bloody, brutal, no sense of humor, dark but not this trash shit you get very often in this genre. Basically this is about the battle between Vampires and Lycans (werewolfes) that goes on already for centurie. How it started depends on what story you believe. Selene however thinks that the Lycans started it, as her stepfather Victor (the most powerful of his kind) told her, the one who saved her as her whole familiy got killed by Lycans once. He made her a Vampire, she became a deathdealer, someone who hunts the hated enemie down to make them extinct. And she is completely loyal to Victor whom she has to wake up from his longlasting sleep, because she fears betrayal and she is convinced to have seen Lucian, the supposed to be killed leader of the Lycans. Then there is a more personal problem, she fell for Michael, who got bitten by a Lycan, and this love is not allowed to exist. Michael has also some very special genetic abilities, that´s why the Lycans are so very interested in him. Than Selene has to find out that her stepfather is not what he said he is, that the war between the two species began because of a forbidden love, so what are the consequenses she has to take, now that her whole world broke apart?

 

Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot

I laughed my head off in this movie, my goodness, I laughed so hard tears ran down my face.

I remembered Tanja telling me I had to watch it - had to had to - so I quickly picked it up in the video library, least my chinese pan-fried vegetable-noodles would get cold, from indecision. Then I rushed home, declined dinner with my flatmate and hopped up the ladder into my bed. The noodles were still sort of warm, and a lot, since I chose the big meal for 3,50 rather than the small one for 2,50. What a price, thought I when buying it, but it was really a lot. But back to the movie.

So there's a small boy, elevenish, who thinks he killed his mum. Because she died when he was born. He has very red nightmares of purgatory where a jury condemns him for his sins. Maybe because next to his bedroom, the town's theatre group is rehearsing and he hears their voices through the wall. He also hears them chat about how his dad is lacking female company. So the boy decides to put things right. First he tries for his friend's mom. She is a bit stern, though, and his dad doesn't like her much. Nonetheless, the boy lures her into coming to his dad's house with a freshly baked strawberry cake. Unfortunately, dad is naked at that point in time, putting up the laundry. Too awkquard to dress before she enters the room, he hides under the tables. Under the tables there is already hiding the boy's teacher. She wanted a teacher-parent talk and hid from embarassment when dad entered the room naked. Now they are both hiding from Mrs Strawberry Cake. Dad doesn't see the teacher at first. When he does, he is so surprised he crawls out under the table and finds himself with his nose in Mrs Strawberry Cake's skirts. It's hilarious. He is understandably quite embarrassed, declines cake and coffee and makes her go.

The boy's second try is this particular teacher. This time his method is magical evocation. And - good luck! - in the precise moment of the candle-lit evocation his dad and teacher lean towards each other over the consultation desk at school and burst into an impassionate kiss. That's great, of course, but what's with the teacher's husband? Does the boy have to kill him in order to give way to happiness? The purgatory jury advises it, to lessen his sins. But fortunately, it's the other way around. When he reaches the husband's studio high on the mountain, it's just in time to save the guy from hanging himself. Unfortunately, the boy himself drinks the husband's poisoned water. He swoons instantaneously. There's a lot of white and he meets his mother,S shining, swimming underwater.

When he wakes up the theatre group is standing around his bed, repeating their performance for him.

Revolutionary Road

Are we special? Are we different? Is this it? Is this all? Is this as far as we can get? This idea that you have to settle down and resign from life. Who made these rules anyway? Look at us! Is it possible to break free from all of these ideas, rules, how it supposingly "have to be"? What if.... we go to Paris, start from new, find out what we really want? You only get a few chances in life. But what if you are imprisoned in responsibility, fear, love, expectations? What if you don´t listen carefully to what the other person has to tell you? What if you start to be so frustrated that you only feel the pain, the disapointment, the anger, the cave you built for yourself and the only thing you wish is to live the life you dreamed of. Before. Before it happend to become like you never wanted it.

 

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are the actors this movie lives from. It´s so very intense.

Jackie Brown

First I have to warn you. This movie is filled with swearwords, the two favorite ones are "nigger" and "fuck(ing)" or in combination. I watched it with german subtitel and I only could laugh about the kind and harmless translation. Well, it´s good. It´s extremly good and it´s Quention Tarantino. When I was watching it I didn´t know what this is all about, except that it is about criminal plots. I mus say, that was the best, not to know anything. So the only thing I will tell you is, that Pam Grier (as Jackie Brown) is extraordinary convincing, fearless, sexy and not what she seems to be at all. She is great, I fell for her immediatly, a great actress. We have also Samuel L. Jackson (as Robbie Ordell) who is the boss of some mafia-like buisness, quite arrogant. Anyway, Jackie got caught with money and drugs at the airport and the police scents the big chance to catch Ordell.From this point on everything developes unexpected, fast and last but not least in a very intelligent way, not to forget the almost bored brutality. Quention Tarantino has an unusual way to film his actors, we see all the lines, the sweat, the hairs. I like that, it makes it somehow more intense when he keeps the camera on the lined face of Robert Foster (May Cherry) for a little while, so we can stuy him closely. Or when he shows for about a minute just Jackie who walks. Or so. However it´s intelligent, very good entertainment.