genicoletti Reviews

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Nice representative of the 80's teens.

[9/10 · 21 April 2017]

The Breakfast Club, a movie made in the 80's, about high schoolers of the 80's. The film has a very simple story that can happen to every American kid. Five students with different life styles and different reasons to be in the detention for one day, each one of them represents very clearly stereotypes from that time.

Good characters and fun comedy is one of the best characteristics of the movie like when Andrew ask Brian "What do you need a fake I.D. for?", he answers "So I can vote", each one of the teenagers is a well made personality that makes you like and care for them.

Shows how strong was the stereotypes in the 80's that now is almost non-existence but it shows too how the students judge each other, what still happens nowadays. The change of the characters during the film is what makes you want to have a continuation, to see how different personalities will be friends.

Brick (2005)

Not that good

[4/10 · 8 March 2017]

Brick is an ''ok'' representation of old films noir in nowadays. It makes a great job in producing all the mystery and suspense atmosphere that old movies of the genre could create. The color editing, the way that the characters speaks and acts, it makes you feel the tense climate but it also makes the film a bit boring because of the long dialogues scenes.

The movie happens in a modern high school and has a nerdy looking guy named Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as the main character. He starts searching for his ex-girlfriend, Emily (Emilie de Ravin) when she calls him asking for his help. After finding her dead body, Brendan goes deeper in secrets and crime gangs.

In general, Brick is a good film for who wants to remember an old noir but it lacks in creating good characters and there's no introduction at all: the film fails in creating a relationship between the characters and the audience, their personalities are very bad and forgetful, it's very artificial; it looks like there's no introduction to the film, when it starts things are already going on, you don't even know who is the main character, maybe it's part of the genre but it was not made in a good way this time. I would change a lot in the characters, maybe put a bit of emotion to them and add an introduction explaining what is going on and things that happened that have lead to the situation.