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The Soloist (2009)
6, are you serious?
As someone who has worked with mental ill adults, someone who has some empathy for their plight, and who thought this was a rare reflection of the human condition and how important being validated/valued is for anyone. I thought this was a 10. This is an example of the highest form of movies. A friend recently told me about "Temple Grandin." Other great movies in this genre include "A Beautiful Mind" "To Kill A Mockingbird" "Shine" "I Am Sam" etc. Robert Downey and Jamie Foxx killed it in their individual roles. Each should have at least been nominated for Oscars... Well perhaps USA is too hot on low brow entertainment, quick edited action scenes, fast paced, minimal plot development, exciting but ultimately meaningless entertainment? Perhaps most of America should just go back to watching Honey Boo Boo?
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
A doc everyone should see and one that no corporation wants to you think about
Really don't understand the low ratings of this doc... I saw this several years ago and was touched by its creative message, the enlightenment to our insane consumer society, and if you don't think you are just a pawn of the oppressor then you ARE! Stop buying so much and invest in relationships and values! US has clearly lost it way and this doc points out they hypocrisy in modern consumerist America. Here are some more great docs for those who care: 1) Consuming Kids 2) Affluenza 3) Advertising and the end of the world 4) The Corporation 5) What a way to go: Life at the End of Empire
If you watch these you may be able to turn the tide on our social, moral, and environmental destruction... What would Jesus Buy? fits right in with them ... "We must become the change we want to see." Gandhi
THX 1138 (1971)
Crude low budget slow visionary social commentary masterpiece
As a long time fan, I saw this originally in drive-in in 1977, I was 11 and I was spellbound because movies even action movies were "slower" than we expect today. As a sociology major and an adult, I can spin the beauty of this story and vision, it is a prophetic portrait of the USA to come, kids medicated from birth, working mindless jobs, repressing normal human behavior, working for meaningless objects, thought control, violence for entertainment, and religion the icing on the delusional cake! "Buy more now, buy and be happy!"
If you don't get this movie, you are just not catching the significant symbolism and metaphors ...or you simply don't care or think our society has a problem...
For those of you who do...and appreciate what this movie illustrates... I say Bravo you have an IQ higher than 110!
I really wish it could be updated for general consumption and maybe a younger audience.
Senna (2010)
Life is so f**king unfair, miss you Mr. Senna
I accidentally began watching during the last part of the 1986 F1 season, I was immediately hooked and would set my alarm to watch the races at 5 am on those Sunday mornings... It was and still is my church! I wish I had known more about this fantastic human being and supernatural driver... I have rarely missed a race over the past 25 years. I watched this doc , so riveted, awed, and nervously scared as I knew the end of the movie was going to be horribly sad. I am not ashamed to say I cried, Senna was just an amazing human, just as much as an amazing racer ... Those years in F1, Prost vs Senna were simply surreal, I wished I had appreciated what I was watching at the time, but then again 25 years of reflection makes everything clear.
I have no doubt that would have stolen a few of those 7 WDC from Mr Schumacher and would have thrilled us all the while... I can't tell you how heartbroken I am over his loss, the pain of everyone who loved him felt, his entire country's grief, and the fact that too many good people die young while some evil people can live decades beyond their welcome. :(
I cannot say anything bad about this doc except, the ending sucked!
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
Seriously serious and scary
This doc just supports and solidifies what I already have learned, observed, researched, pondered, read, and realized for the last 30 years... And sadly, no, Jesus is not coming to save us! The only thing that keeps me from laughing and stating the proverbial "I told you so," is the fact I have a 6 1/2 year old son (who I love much more than Jesus), he breaks my heart with his love and concern for the planet already, asking and reminding me to recycle... while I know that unchecked population growth and capitalism will destroy what once was a unique and beautiful planet, and likely leave him a unpleasant future. We have only ourselves to blame...