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La révélation des pyramides (2010)
Phar Out.
You have an interest in Egyptology, of course you do, doesn't everybody. This is the daddy of Egyptian documentaries, it is filled with so many facts & figures, especially about the Great Pyramid of Giza, it is stellar geek-viewing.
This production isn't your standard History Channel, or National Geographical Channel regurgitation. This presentation reveals construction intricacies, graphical connections, the golden ratio, suggestions of climatic change that naturally occur by way of the North Magnetic Pole, and a mathematical number that equates to the speed of light.
Be taken aback.
A Field in England (2013)
A Field of Nightmares
This movie is about ninety minutes of purgatory, I think.
Four men from the time period of Oliver Cromwell, I think, during a battle, I think, escape the perceived carnage by falling through a rural hedge. They form a four-man band and in a weary, bedraggled condition, trudge a field with ale on their mind. What follows then is plain and simple, puzzlement.
After spending an hour figuring out what I had just viewed I've plumped for, what you reap in life is what you sow in the afterlife.
I also watched the director's vague explanation of what the film is about and I am none the wiser. I think my assessment will at least give a future viewer something to mull over.
4/10
Jagten (2012)
It's a Mads World.
Scandinavian film makers, actors, directors, and book-writers, must be very near the world-peak of producing the best thought-provoking cinema and reading. 'The Hunt' has to be yet another movie that Hollywood will attempt to emulate, but will it conquer a masterpiece - I think not.
The setting has a cold remoteness with its lead character, Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen), a warm-hearted kindergarten teacher.
An accusation of indecency is voiced by one of the children which results in the small community acting in a manner which has to be viewed as correct.
The song, Mad World, sprang to my mind after watching this movie with 'Tears For Fears' very very prevalent.
10/10
Ill Manors (2012)
David Cameron's Britain
David Cameron was born in London yet I doubt very much he has witnessed a social London manor such as Ben Drew's depiction of this brilliant portrayal of the inner London of today.
Teenage girls & boys, young men & women, a new-age society that only knows gang-culture, turf war, drug dependency, gun violence, prostitution, fear and a one-way ticket to the abyss.
The movie world makes me smile regarding what is considered a good, or a bad film. Politics is always under the surface, take for example, best picture of 2013 - Argo - it's loaded with inaccuracies and is as dull as mud. But, it is a stars & stripes flag waver for the shallow minded to remember who the enemy is.
Ill Manors makes you think, on a British standpoint - who exactly are the wrong-doers and why are they doing it.
Cameron is allowing Britain to sink deeper than the Titanic, and Ill Manors will reveal that lifeboats in inner city societies are also in short supply.
8/10
Prometheus (2012)
Ridley's Riddles.
After watching Alien, in the cinema, just after my 20th birthday - in 1979, I remember thinking 'that's the best science-fiction movie I've ever seen'.
Since then, I always wondered... The fossilised being?, lounging on a half bed-half chair with a telescope attached - Where was the being from? Where was it going? Why was it carrying such an unstable, lethal cargo?
After watching Prometheus I have the answers to two of those questions, now I still have to wait to discover where the being, and man, was originally from - according to Ridley.
Prometheus is good (not great)with acceptable special effects, and Michael Fassbender (as David), is Prometheus's best actor & character, with a great line in the movie - "I didn't think you had it in you".
That 'line' made me think back to Kane (John Hurt), and probably, the best movie in science-fiction history.
5/10
Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da (2010)
The Devil's Seoul
I Saw The Devil is, in my opinion, not for female eyes - it is gruesome and depicts women as easy prey for the unhinged of male society.
Mens inner demons run riot in this movie, for one man he is intrinsically evil, for another, his actions are brought about by rage and revenge.
The acting of the two main characters is close to perfection, the story-line chilling, with the final scene, the yin to the movie's yang. As a film watcher for forty years this movie creeps into the very small list of ten-out-of-tens. Masterpiece.
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