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The Edge of Love (2008)
In a word "re-Atonement"
With its ww2 timing, falling in and out of love, and easy on the eye Kira, this is re-Atonement.
This a relationship story with focused main characters working out the the balance between first and fast love in the home front of WW2. Poet Dylan Thomas philanders his way between wife and ex in dark and smoky Blitz London and later in windy wales.
Vera's ex and next spark off each other as the poet and soldier become a sideline while the girls bond and share. An easy watch that works well in the era bouncing along with just a few dips in pace. Would work well with French subtitles but then I may have been to too many art house movies lately.
Yi ge dou bu neng shao (1999)
A quiet simple gem
A simple film with a linear narrative which reminds us of the complexity of modern life. Looking into this tale from the urban world reminds us that life is so very different elsewhere.
Set in China but the themes could be matched to many places in the developing world. Rural v Urban, Poverty v Prosperity, the contrast is stark. It's a scary place looking for a lost boy in a strange city when you could so easily become lost yourself. The teacher struggles through grasping at one straw after another finally by determination and a bit of luck over achieves her goal.
The happy outcome has a moralising whiff, good values will win in the end, unfortunately this tends not to happen so often in the real world.
Kung fu (2004)
A fantastic movie about transformation
Everything changes in this fantastic movie, powerful to helpless, passive to pro-active, mediocre to genius and of course ultimate master to mere pupil. The movie changes itself from gangster to dance (briefly) to all out action and finally passive redemption. The key players at the start turn in to bystanders and the meek turn to key elements of the plot.
A triumph of film narrative, where the effects are blended to the plot and the humour is wild, brutal and subtle. Go see this one now you will laugh and bellow and forget to eat your popcorn.
Gannett