More Movie Reviews

Well, I watched some more movies recently this week. It seems that I have been watching lots of serious kind of movies. Most of them are depressing ones and now I need to change the genre to action-packed or raunchy commedies. Here goes the list in my preferred order:

1. Crash*****(#62 on IMDB's Top 250)
2. Downfall****(#51 on IMDB's Top 250)
3. Layer Cake**
4. Oldboy **(#118 on IMDB's Top 250)
5. Ordinary Decent Criminal
6. Requiem for a Dream(#47 on IMDB's Top 250)

Crash is a an excellent movie and shows how different people of different races in US are linked to each other. Its focus is on racism and humanity together. It will definitely touch you and make you think. The scene in which the locksmith's girl was shot in order to save him from the bullet made me dumbfounded. That was a turning point for me.

Downfall is a german movie based on WWII. Unlike other WW movies which mainly show battlecenes, this one shows the different moods of Hitler in his last few days when he was loosing the war and Red Army was marching over Berlin. Its based on a book by Traudl Junge, Hitler's last private secretary from 1942 to 1945. One dialogue by Hitler which shows his character, goes like:

"Be ruthless. Life doesn't forgive weakness. This so-called humanity is religious drivel. Compassion is an eternal sin. To feel compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature. The strong can only triumph if the weak are exterminated. Being loyal to this law, I've never had compassion. I've always been ruthless when faced with internal opposition from other races. That's the only way to deal with it".

Requiem for a dream, although rated quite high and critically acclaimed movie, was very depressing for me. Lives of all the four characters are ruined and destroyed in the end by drugs and will leave you with a question, "Why did I watched it ??"

Layer Cake and Ordinary Decent Criminal are good entertainers (crime n commedy) and Oldboy is revenge-based with a real twist, but still kind of depressing.