Ahlaam
At last an Iraqi film comes! the iraq targidy is not represented at all in the art. The film is an honest attempt to "talk" about what was and is hapenning in Iraq. It needs more focus on some of the issues. The Iraqi tragidy is so huge that whatever stories one writes will be no more than a drop from a sea.
The Architecture of Doom
The film was an attempt to present the rise and fall of the nazis in a different angle by studying the the power interaction with the fine arts. However, the film could not get rid of the prejudice emotions of its makers against Germany.
All about my mother
With a well done screenplay and passionate music,Pedro Almodóvar, was able to hide many moral, ethical and intellectual defects in the story. The title pretend to be about "motherhood" one can say while the film is about sexual deviation. Was Pedro Almodóvar trying to "nurse" the idea of sexual deviation and be the" mother" of it?
All quiet on the western front
The drama of war and piece.How war starts as an idea that attracts some enthusiastic ideologist and how it ends as a disaster that burns generations ruthlessly.
Akira Kurosawa's dreams
Akira Kurosawa's vision about his childhood, his intellectual Odyssey, his bitterness and his wishes all are presented in a highly constructed work that stimulates contemplation and calls for the human ethics and morale. The philosophical stream is so powerful in this film that it feels mystic in some of its scene.
American beauty
Killing, Drugs, Psychopathology, morbid sex and shattered families all those and more shape the American beauty to which millions of people are craving to live. Kevin Spacy played a wonderful role of the family patron who is suppressed by his wife and mocked at by his daughter, a role that one should fulfill in order to be considered a "democratic family man" if the family was shattered what befit the democracy will provide? see the film for an answer!!!
As good as it gets
A peculiar person can be a lovely one! Just think it in this way and give other people a chance. What is peculiar and strange for us might be normal for others!!!
Arizona Dream
Emir Kusturica's deep vision of the American society has been introduced in a highly artistic film that made a great success in Europe although it was trimmed from its original 140 to 120 min in United states and was limited to home video. May be Warner brothers did not want to see what is the expected end of "Arizona Dreams"?
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