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Oliver's Deal (2015)
A perspective on the autonomous and independent world
In this story the common conceptions of the international free trade system are confronted. The film brings together the lives of various parties and focuses upon the fate of one boy.
Individuals can be understood as separate and distant from each other. Yet in this depiction, the interdependence of individuals, of their actions, within the global economic system is brought into question.
The film attempts to bring light upon and question the issues of independence, of the seemingly autonomous existence capitalism promotes and depicts the interconnected nature of dealings across the international economy, ultimately bringing the various parties together to confront the realities of the decisions they make.
The writer/director does not attempt to go into the philosophy of film, nor do they give bourgeois depictions of meaning to life, but faces the realities of the system in which we live. It's not happy go lucky, the film is not an objection to capitalism nor does it try to be a sermon of the misfortunes of the poor and the evil natures of the rich, but presents a perspective of the responsibilities and realities we face in the economically focused lifestyles which we are a part of.
In the same vain as 'blood diamond' and 'promised land'.
Ender's Game (2013)
wow
Didn't realise such low standards could be achieved in a film.
with such lines as (paraphrased);
i destroy my enemy; just before i kill them i find out i love them; (a) i twisted my ankle (b) take him to sick bay.....
and many other for your brain melting pleasure, i can only say that my brain hurts after having viewed this.
i can only fain an attempt to find a reason why this film was created; that in some way this is another film to bring up another generation under the impression that heroism is based on clichéd views of the world, to find a reason for over-aggressive tactics, to manipulate philosophy into a mutated form of reasoning and essentially to keep people watching lame films
Why would Harrison do this to us, why?
Tetsuo (1989)
leftfieldism
Where does a person start with this film? It's seriously shifted mentally. This whole film speaks in a language that doesn't communicate by the words spoken but by the actions carried out.
One thing we know throughout this film is that the couple commit a hit and run and this is where everything begins to go wrong for the couple. They begin to loose control of their feelings about the situation and their world seems to spiral downward together. He finds metal under his skin and later finds out more has been embedded in his brain. Set in a world where there is so much metal, just lying in heaps - it seems like a symbol of a collective guilt and the feelings slowly taking over his body.
It seems the criminal begins to get followed by a random woman who seemed to be trying to help him resolve his problems, by addressing a steaming metallic object lying on the floor. She becomes infected and chases him while he tries to run away from the metallic guilt that has even begun to infect people around him.
The sexual/carnal relationship between the couple takes on a sadistic edge, where she stabs him and then becomes turned on by it. Everything becomes a compulsion and goes out of control. The man comes back from the grave to haunt the perpetrator of the crime and ends up trying to destroy him, but their futures are linked. They both cannot exist without each other and the film turns into a messed up love story of a man obsessed with his guilt, where both men ultimately become monsters. The criminal becoming subject to the guilt he feels.
One of the most interesting films I have seen. This is only my interpretation, it is so difficult to get a firm hold on the concept of this film. I don't know if everyone would be able to watch and appreciate it, but I think if you are a lover of film or you are in someway interested in modes of expression you will find this film made of gold (or iron I know, bad joke).