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12 Angry Men (1997)
Wonderful
I have just read some comments on this film and I am just now trying to add my point of view on this film.
The main point highlighted by the comments is that it does not meet the original's standards. I believe it does.
I have seen both the classic 1957 movie with Henry Fonda and the 1997 remake with Jack Lemmon. The second one is almost half an hour longer. I admit there are a few odd changes in the second one (lines have gone from an actor to another), but I am still convinced the second one is not least than the original.
("Original"... which is already a remake of the play filmed for TV by Sidney Lumet)
This remake was the opportunity to correct some of the details of the Reginald Rose one, such as the discussion about the motives of the crime, or to make George C Scott older.
All that could be criticised or praised, this to my mind improved it a little bit, but above all I would say the second one (well, I actually saw it first) is more realistic, more human than the first one, probably because of this wider range of race and social background of the jury.
Well, it just changed my life and the way I look at others (at Tony Danza definitely, but in fact at any person I meet). I have seen the Friedkin one about 20 times and the Rose one just four or five times.
The Last Supper (1995)
Amazing Ron Perlman
Just a quick personal interpretation about the ending and the outstanding performance by Ron Perlman.
*spoilers*
To my mind, the final could be the answer to the morale question : "If you met Hitler in 1930, and knew everything that was going to happen, should you kill him ?"
And the answer is given in the film : if you met Hitler in 1930, knowing what was going to happen, it's HIM who would have killed YOU, and not the other way around !
Generally speaking I love situations where the answer to a yes/no question is cactually not yes or no. I loved this movie !
Qualcuno in ascolto (1988)
About a boy
*SPOILERS*
I have seen this movie on TV in France where it was called "meurtre sur la fréquence", following french annoying use of always changing the movie titles.
The plot deals with a lone man in a TV station lost in the swiss or italian mountains watching on one of the channels he transmits the image of a murder shot by a CCTV system.
While he has no idea where in the world this happened, he manages to contact on the air a little boy connected to his late father's CB radio et the top of a lighthouse in the US.
Together, they try to discover the truth about that murder, and to avoid being caught by the spies.
What impressed me much about Qualcuno in ascolto is that it sounds to me as quite realistic, for a spy story. Quite far away from James Bond & Co, where the spies are really dangerous, the main character (the TV station operator) is really in danger and the boy, though smart, does not manage to be better than both the spies and the police. This is quite a relief after so many films like Spy Kids or Home Alone.
Though not the best movie I ever seen, I would recommend it strongly.
7 out of 10