Three Colors: Blue

Pro.Larry told us this movie will lead us to sleep at very beginning. The movie told a story about how a woman 's tragic accident happened in her family make her life change.
Until the movie finished, I felt the accident may save her on the other hand.Because she and her husband all have an affair actually,although it take a lot of time to find out and to be released.

This film has little in terms of twists and turns and plot points. But the simple tale is shown to you in such a way as to please you immensely. There are moments of two people talking that are lit so beautifully you want to grab other directors and say "why can't you make people look as absorbing as that? You haven't been *trying* have you? Stay behind after class." On the other side of the equation the DVD extras have a bit of the director telling you what he was trying to achieve with the close-up shots he was using and Binoche goes on about her painful dedication to her art and you sort of want to say "yeah, OK, chill out" and you feel like after they gave the interviews they might giggle behind our backs and laugh at how they made us all think it was all dreadfully clever.

A film about freedom like sense of life. Introspective way and forms of disillusion, fight against the past and steps of self-definition. And the masks of music, ambiguity of search, nooks of desire. A beautiful film about the relation with life and image of the other. Exercise of honest description of reality like collection of different pieces. A subtle form of catharsis and anatomy of gestures. A meditation about values and expectation, trust and desire, about skin of things and the memories as parts of a lamp.

According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.[1] Set in Paris, it depicts Julie, a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, Julie attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she cannot free herself from human connections.

Strawberry and chocolate(Fresa y chocolate)Trailer

Strawberry and Chocolate

Another Great Movie in Latin America which shocked me at last, Although i was all most fell in slept at the preceding part of this movie, but the story was getting more attractive when I getting more information which the movie was trying to describe. It's both entertaining and moving. In the opening scenes, I couldn't help but laugh at the fish-out-of-water interactions between the main character and the gay man. But the actor who plays the gay man isn't a walking stereotype. He shows many feminine characteristics, but not in a way that he seems to be almost laughing at himself. Often times, gay men feel like women stuck in men's bodies, so it's only natural that they act feminine, but that doesn't mean all they talk about is which guys they think are hot and their longing for promiscuous sex. During those interactions, the gay man hits on the main character, but that's because he's a handsome guy. If a straight man were to meet a pretty girl, he'd hit on her too. Only that wouldn't be disputed, because heterosexuality is considered normal. But the gay man's advances aren't too forward and he doesn't start harassing him or anything.

The main idea of this movie also make me rethinking all the structure back in China. Although this movie is talking about something around homosexual,it indeed get something apart from it,like brave to break a rumor.It did tell us a lot.

This is undoubtedly one of the greatest Cuban films of the last two decades, Tomas Gutierrez Alea "titón" was an excellent film director that took part in many of Cuban most awarded films ever and he's for so much in Cuban top 10 directors list. About Perugorria "Pichi" he's one Cuban most largely known actors of the time and has proved to be a never static actor, never stereotyped actor, ... The film aboard one big truth, not just a Cuban one but a latinamerican one, the macho men thinking way that has to do with everyone's way of interacting in society. The film captures a particular stage on Cuban history when homosexuality was mistreated even at high levels and the prejudice set against homosexuals was really strong, even more on men because of the imperant Latin "machismo". This is just a gift both for cinema lovers and for those that loves Cuba and Cubans.

Amores Perros

The Movie is trying to describe a funny story through three dogs. Each part of story has a interesting plot, and at end, each part are connected by each other, make it a whole ,integrated story.

This is a A masterpiece.The director gives you a great feeling with all the connections between some people in a city. From the opening segment, the audience is deeply engrossed in this film, until the very end. If this film is exemplary of the type of films an audience can expect from Mexico, than I'm anxiously anticipating the next film to cross the divide.The way everything happens reminds of things that you saw happening the previous week with your neighbours,on the road,in your family. the emotion tha the director gives you with things that happen every day and we just dont notice it till we see it to a movie and we just take a taste of how this people feel in circumstances like those on the film.


The dogfights (dogs used plastic mouth covers, and were sedated for 15 minutes for the dead scenes), The car chase, The blood of the shot man spilling on the cooking table, The model getting back home and seeing the blank wall where her add used to be, The beautiful love scene combined with a brutal one of a beating, it's all just so shocking. Like it or not, this film does live up to it's fame.

The Battle of Algiers(La battaglia di Algeri )(1966)

When I sit at the back of the class, I just felt a little boring when Pro. Larry Said it is a old movie. Because I never interested in the movie which shot before 1970. Like the movie ,SAMURAI 7, I watched before, It made me felt like I am an skull. Although the spirit of the movie had moved me. The black-and-white film never interests me.

However,after watching this movie, I just felt the power from this Black-and-white film.

The movie begins on a raid and then quickly dissolves into the story leading up to the raid. Ali La Pointe is one of the highest leaders in the resistance of French control in Algiers, a resistance structured by a hierarchy of anonymity so that no one tier of it can lead directly to the rest. The occupiers are forced to use arrest and torture in order to ferret out every member, and only through the most extreme activities are successful. Their success, however, hardly wins the overall war.

The Battle of Algiers is an amazing Neo realistic film. It is neither glamorous, with its grainy, rough, darkish look, it brings the movie to life. At times it feels like you are actually in the movie witnessing the events unfold right in front of you. With its use of non actors and with the dialogue mostly improvised and dubbed over, gives the film a raw feel. It was shot on location by Gillo Pontecorvo in war torn Italy. The setting it self is amazing, the building structures and surroundings fit this movie very well. Some even thought it it was a metaphor for the Vietnam War.

The Battle of Algiers is a war film based upon occurrences in the eight-year Algerian War against French colonial rule in North Africa. There were many scenes that were a little hard to watch because of all the people that were killed in the bombings while living their everyday lives. It was interesting to see how many men and women join together to seek revenge against another group. The director cleverly uses imagery to make the viewers see the insight of a terrorist mind. The attacks and battles are insane among one another, accusations towards the innocent.

Tsotsi

“A real find, by one of the most affecting and moving writers of our time.” In the movie “Tsotsi,” I see the lead character Tsotsi turn his life around from a common, uncaring, seemingly detached street thug to a character who wants to do the right thing in life, to have “decency,” a recurring theme throughout the film. Its my first time watching a South Africa movie, gloomy pictures and the slums are the main visual impression while I was watching. A gang of youths had been struggling with poor life since they were children. Fighting, theft and even murder are all their ways to feed themselves. Fortunately, a baby survived in one robbery case saved Tsotsi’ s gangster life. His kindness and mercy came to life. Then, at the end of the film. Tsotsi lift his hands thus end his lifeless world. The film is full of darkness, but the dawn is finally shown to us.

The major theme of Tsotsi is: In Johannesburg, the small time criminal Tsotsi is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. After killing a man with his gang in a robbery; hitting the gangster Boston of his gang; humiliating a crippled beggar along one night, Tsotsi hijacks a car and under the despair of a woman, he shoots her in the stomach. While driving the car, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat and the woman was a desperate mother. He brings the baby to his house in the slum and becomes attached to him. For six days, the baby changes his behavior, arousing and developing the sense of empathy and humanity in the cold blood killer.

After watching this film, I shocked for a long time. I can feel the anxiety, fear, sadness, excitement and love inside Tsotsi as he makes every move. However, the other good thing about the movie is that, originally, Tsotsi lived with a abusive drunk father, his victimized mother and a dog. He left when his father brutally wounded the dog. So it must have been some sort of human quality that made him choose that way. All characters are well-developed and lovable. The locations are pretty nice and life in the slums is well portrayed. The movie never gets slow or boring. The soundtrack is beautiful even if u cant understand the lyrics. All in all, its a touching movie and a must-see.