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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
A must for any human being
One of the best and one of the most beautiful movies of all times. One of the most uplifting love poems about the human spirit. One of the most important movies that you'll see in your life. Some pieces of art are so important and so true that they can not be measured. Giving it a ten is a terrible shame, it needs more because it is one of the three or four movies that can make any human being, as chief said, as big as a mountain. And that is a beautiful thing. However, this is IMDb and it has to be analyzed as a film, so let's do it. It has a script that is just PERFECT. Acting so good that you have to concentrate really hard to pull yourself out of the spell to remember that these are actors. Directing so good that made this movie one of the most important movies of the twentieth century. A piece of art so good that makes you a better human being.
Burning Palms (2010)
Have kids been watching this movie?
SPOILER ALERT -----------
The movie is a bad movie, that is clear. But I guess you've read a lot of comments about how cynical, cold and insane this movie is and you may be wondering about that. The short answer? critics who labeled this movie as "deeply disturbing" are immature, weak and simple minded and truly disturb me with their insensibility to human frailty.
These are all the things depicted in the movie that some reviewers think are the most "aberrant corners of humanity":
- Incest - Anal sex - Gay couples adopting out of fashion - White people adopting minority kids to buy redemption - Gay sex - Superficiality - Absent parents - Racism - Rape - Masochism
The movie is not good but it is not by any means that politically incorrect. I guess critics today are kids who can't appreciate cinema without judging the characters like they were real people—even if that were the case, labeling these people as aberrant without any sign of compassion is extremely arrogant—or being willfully ignorant to how ugly or stupid we humans can be.
I assume that these critics have never seen (and will never see) some of these really good movies that go around the same topics and are truly disturbing and challenging: Salo, anything by Pedro Almodovar, Irreversible, American Psycho, Bad lieutenant, Buffalo 66, Cruising, The Piano Teacher, Putney Swope, Repulsion, Dogville.
My recommendation would be this: Watch the movie to realize how infantile contemporary movie goers are, watch some of the movies recommended above and enjoy cinema like the smart adult you are.
18 comidas (2010)
Interesting if you think mediocre Spain is interesting
First things first. The movie is bad, really bad. Bad music, full of clichés, bad dialogue. It may only be saved for being a kind of documentary on ordinary (very ordinary) Spain and for the acting which is superb overall. But the movie is really bad. With a script made out of 5 stories so small and ordinary that don't deserve being told in a movie theater. I don't know if naturalism has a place in cinema when this mediocrity has the capacity of draining the soul out of your bones. If you're a sociologist interested in the most simple and boring Spain this movie may be for you. If you're a simple and boring Spaniard this movie may be for you. If you're a human being with interesting things to do or say, please, don't watch this movie. It will only make you stupid.
Y tu mamá también (2001)
Great movie, amazing script, best young actors.
This is not a portrait of Mexico; Mexico is just a background for the story. This movie shows certain parts of contemporary Mexico but the same script could be played anywhere else. The same issues that surround the main plot affect all places and are truly universal: corruption, misunderstanding, economical gap between classes or the end of traditional jobs ad lifestyles. Marivel Verdu says in a moment "you are just like all men, you fight but what you really want is f... each other". Why women show affection in a more physical way to other women? What if this is not caused by physiologically but culturally? What if men are culturally repressed towards showing affection to other men? Why is affection, sex and friendship so hard to understand but so easy to mix in real life? Death. What about it? The whole movie goes around this and you won't notice till the end. The movie doesn't make clear statements and that makes it subtle and mature. If I'm wrong please give me the simple answer to sex, friendship, death and love. I'll be happy to consider this movie worse than I do. While we find an answer, I recommend you to watch this movie; you're surely going to enjoy it. It is funny, it's deep, it has an incredible script, and it's also visually beautiful. Hollywood believed in this director and he's now doing great films there, watch this movie and you'll see how good he is. But remember, this movie may answer a couple of questions about life but it'll ask you a thousand more.