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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a MASTERPIECE
from start to finish, this film is stark, raving FLOODED with ideas.
1. Consider this Spielberg's 'lost' Star Wars film, there are NUMEROUS indications the star wars myth is here, just look at Ray Winstone bare his flashlight like a light-saber. Watch the moment Dovchenko and Indy fall onto the glass circle, the rest of the scene is a star wars duel.
2. To dig deeper, you have to really see how much fun they're having: a 'digging' creature emerges from the ground (archeologists dig), is run over by a flaming vehicle (humans destroy without knowing), with cheering white people (the audience), reflected in a mirror of a truck with hiding Soviet soldiers posing as US Army, a mirror bridges their connecting shot...
I'll stop there. Go back, see it again. Be amazed and be a child, stop acting like people who are trying to relive your childhood, the world is darker, the internet has made us know more bad things about each other, your childhood memories belong back there. Live now.
Billy the Kid (2007)
Billy The Kid
Hypnotic and simple, this low tech gem is a genre busting documentary that achieves non-fictionally what virtually all of cinema has attempted fictionally: get the boy a soul. Boys in film, from Elliot in ET to the title character in Pixote to Porky's to The Shining's Danny are archetypes searching past Mom and Dad for a little individuality through some form of psychic mayhem. The capstone (tombstone) is the dead Haley Joel Osmet in Sixth Sense. Look carefully, culture uses these kids as rites-of-passage stand-ins, and they endure almost obscene amounts of fear and pain to ascend. News media showcases these boys in real life mostly as hooligans with guns: we reflect on troubled youth as a result of careful CNN headwashing in the aftermath of Columbine and Virginia Tech. Billy is the first documentary film I've ever seen that exhibits a narrative interface with a boy who is clearly from this archetype closet. Billy's polarizing, somewhat fearless and game for any self exploration. In the wrong hands he's a loose cannon, but here he reflects, jokes, espouses and in the lynch-pin moment, gathers the courage to ask a girl out and as we watch the exploration of first love, we realize even as we know this love is momentary, that he's done it, he can never run back to a blank world of just heavy metal and violence. Two women left their beautiful mark on Billy, one was the girl he fell for the other is the director. Truffaut (that made Small Change) and Spielberg wish they had made this.