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The Liability (2012)
Best British Crime Drama of 2012/13
Although sometimes aimless, "The Liablity" wonderfully weaves an intelligent story of Adam (Jack O'Connell) by playing to the actor's strengths (slow humor, immaturity, cockiness, and a buckets of empathy). When Adam is asked to become the "driver" for his step-dad's hit-man, we run into Roy (Tim Roth) who also does an excellent job. Tim Roth plays the critical role of reality check for the viewer, questioning Adam at every point, giving the movie a great sense of character depth during the dialogues.
In the 'day-and-age' of re-hashed Guy Richie British crime movies, with the same actors, playing the same roles, its really refreshing to see movie that doesn't rely on the same-old intersecting plots, with inconceivable charters. "The Liablity" is also supported by a great soundtrack, some great industrial-cinematography, and solid writing, overall 8/10 and well worth watching.
Think of it as catcher-in-the-rye meets > Léon: The Professional > meets > Skins.
2016: Obama's America (2012)
Great Documentary, but built on One Major falsehood that....
...makes it a completely irrelevant film. When the film starts building Obama's ideals and ideas for transforming America. It's one major example for how Obama has diminished our wealth. Was the example of the Housing Crisis and the subsequent Bail out that has led America to go a further 7 Trillion Dollars in debt.
All of those problems highlighted by this film, and put on the shoulders of Obama...
If anyone who knows anything about economics and the problems of the housing crisis, they full well that was a direct result of Clinton and Bush's DE-regulation of sub-prime mortgages. Which led to people taking on loans and spending more money then they had, which led to the job crisis and the faltering economy and the HUGE sum's of money at the Upper tiers of America's 1%.
It is also widely known that their are two roads to recovery from such a drastic and horrible problem.
1. keep low taxes, keep spending, and hope the 1% actually try to spend their money and increase jobs in America.
2. increase taxes on the wealthy, use that money to redistribute wealth back to the middle and lower class, so that jobs can be created at a micro level, instead of waiting for massive corporations to take the reins.
The problem we are in now is that both parties have what they want, republicans have low taxes, and democrats have wide spread spending, leading to the decline of the American dollar with massive debt, and everyone and their mother bickering over who is to blame.
IF THIS FILM wanted to gain my republican vote, it should not have based the entire film on that single fact, instead it should have spoken truthfully about the state of our nation, and accepted the wrong doings of the bush administration as much as the Obama one.
My only hope is that we get together and pick one road for the future, instead of the dual course for disaster our country is heading towards. Its like one big metaphorical game of Chicken, Democrats and Republicans driving strait towards each other, hoping someone will give-in so that our economy can finally start to actually recover.
Meanwhile the rich lose wealth, the middle class declines into debt, and the lower class sits in their homes on welfare looking for a job that doesn't exist.
Ain't life grand.