Comments on: Armchair Traveller: Africa – Episode 37

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:49:11 +0000

Another film for the list: ‘Shooting Dogs’.

Pretty powerful movie on the 1994 Rawandan Genocide. Good performances and music.

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By: gray

gray — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:12:03 +0000

@juli: different personality is sometimes leads into chaos…maybe i would say, give and take… understand with each other is the main factor that relationship would last…and on top of the most respect with each other…

By: Juli Revolver

Juli Revolver — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:11:49 +0000

@Gray: Happens to that not all us feel equal, maybe a close the door to you is nothing and maybe for me the same close the door is a knife is the heart.
I feel that about the personage of Kate Wislent and the personage of Leonardo Dicaprio I see it.

By: Juli Revolver

Juli Revolver — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:09:34 +0000

@Gray: Hi Gray. About “Revolutionary road” I have found sensations. Is a great movie but not excellent like for me is the best movie in the history of cinema “Se7en”. Altrought the trailer of the this movie is better than “Se7en”, probably the best trailer that I see in my life. I can’t stopped of see it.

You say that about the personage of Kate Winslet that she don`t has a complicated problem or something like that, I think the conflict of the movie go on in another direction. She and her husband are like two eternity children in an adult life. He can understand the things in the middle of the story but she doesn`t. And the personage of Leonardo Di Caprio it suffers more for her that for himself.

That movie talk about the “american dream” in the really sense, in the really sense that… NEVER IS REAL. the only real in your life is the present, and that you have feel in this moment and enjoy it or.. maybe not, the final suggest that!.
Is very complicated the movie, complicated and simple. The final is a contradiction about the previously in the movie, you think until the end that she is in the wrong way but… a final with a people living a un-happiness life, living dead like all is “normal” I feel that Sam Mendes or… I don`t see the novel… but that say Mendes is this movie is: “She lives in a eternity ilution for not die because she has the gift of the talent but not the talent of the live a normal life and poor of her… And the another line, in the final line Mendes say… Do she really wrong or maybe us are in the wrong place in the wrong way…?

I don`t think that in the movie that okay about better to live to live dead in life, but I think the movie speak about the better the honest act to a take the rules that kill us.

By: gray

gray — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:12:24 +0000

@juli: thanks juli… revolutionary road is somewhat quite disturbing… when you think of it the life that she has, is not that really complicated… but if your not contented of what you have , sometimes people are looking for another means, where the drive of living is a challenge…even if your future is vague …but theres no impossible in dreaming of having a good life as long as your working on it…
i wont elaborate it anymore Juli coz the ending is so tragic… How come kate winslet in her character is cheating, for godsake its FOuL….
3 otters juli but the acting is 5 otters…
How about ‘the reader have you watch it’?you better watch it.. u might get bored along the way but its quite hyperventilating movie…

another thing is u better watch ‘500 days of summer’ u might can relate to the movie…its in the last episode of the movie is my fave part… thats why i hate the ‘WHAT IF’….

By: Juli Revolver

Juli Revolver — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:44:41 +0000

@ Gray:

“Life under circumstances is sometimes unfair”
love it!

By: gray

gray — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:05:26 +0000

i was thinking,i would considired a german movie “Nowhere in Africa”… its a good drama movie where the story evolved on how to adapt the life in kenya…

‘Life under circumstances is sometimes unfair’….

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:19:42 +0000

Adore this episode. Watched it back to back. Production/editing is sublime.

I’ve still to see ‘The Constant Gardner’ but that was one batted around the office yesterday trying to think of some more we could add.

Think the ‘continent’ or country feature is a great idea, lots of potential to look into the different themes and styles from country to country. Especially outside of Hollywoodland.
I’d be keen to see one on Russia, another area I think hasn’t been fully ‘discovered’ on film, but has some pretty significant directors.

@Juli That sounds a great idea. I’m sure Klaus Kinski would be in a Top 10.

Keep up the genius work Tomas, these blogs are a great way to get by the working week, always something to look forward to and already discovering so many gems.

By: Juli Revolver

Juli Revolver — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:30:20 +0000

@Tomas: I was thinking… an episode about crazy director’s cinema is a good idea.
Or crazy actors…
Ever think that the actors want to camouflage theyself in the skin of a personage for to forget themselves…
Behind all narcisist act of an actor the great insecurity is hidden.
Is like dreses of clown… make cinema is this, an ilusion that when you watch maybe make you laught but when you make maybe you cry a lot.