Uno Memento, Por Favor!

Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan, was probably one of the most confusingly interesting movies I've ever watched. My favorite of the film noire movies (which is really redundant since it means movies black movies), I at first hated the fact that it was filmed in a crazy weird order with weird black and white scenes dispersed through out the movie to make it more confusing. I kind of think that seeing it over the course of like a week made it more confusing, as at the end being able to piece together all the scenes along with the black and white scenes made it somewhat easier to comprehend.

I really like Nolan's choice in using color (or lack there of) to really emphasis and help the viewer understand the differences in time frame of the scenes. The part where we see Sammy Jankis in a mental hospital in black and white, and then a quick shot of Teddy in color, which went unnoticed by me was really interesting.

P.S i really like photos like that.

Kiss me Deadly

This movie is possibly one of the best movies ever to be filmed. I can't even comprehend how so much drama, suspense and action can possibly be captured in one epic tale. Until the final scene of the movie, I found myself continually questioning the educational merit of this film. It is comprised of all together fairly normal scenes pertaining to the mysterious deaths of awesome characters like the auto mechanic.

The final scene reminded me a lot of pandora's box. The ancient story of a girl given a box which she must never open. Curiosity gets the best of her, and she ends up releasing a wealth of badness upon mankind. The girl, opens up this mysterious box only to symbolically release the bane of human existence. While she only kills herself, it metaphorically speaks to the fearfulness given off by the cold war, and horror of nuclear bombs.

This is how its gonna go, Babe

Over all this movie was really good, however i strongly dislike the lead female character as well as the lead male role. They both felt that they were extremely cool, and really smart and yet each of them was the cause of their own demise. The only character i liked was the daughter. She was extremely good looking, and smooth the entire movie all i could think about was spending a little time with her, if you know what i mean. :)

The lighting was very distinguished, in this entire film. The dark tones to this movie were felt very deeply when paired with the intense music. They made it really, difficult to stop watching, but also with the lack of intensely bright scenes it made me feel really sleepy.

And they said

Arguably one of the best movies seen in Big Timmy's class, Groundhog Day (Ramis 1993) forces it's viewers to empathize with the miserable existence of Bill Murray's character. Filled with joy, anguish, fear and passion the repetitious aspect of his life is taken for granted by him. I asked myself how many years was he stuck in this miserable little town, and while watching it picked it apart trying to prove as many thing in as improbable.

One event that stood out was his final news "speech" if you want to call it that, Murray is sitting there surrounded by countless other new anchors and cheering folks. I just thought it strange that if everyone else has no recollection of anything that happened, how did they know he was going to do anything special?

This movie was terrific and after glancing at the article in TKlob's blog I definitely understand why for this whole movie I kind of thought it was poking fun of religion. I guess not poking fun of, but more showing the importance of. Because of the empathetical nature of this work, ideas are very easy to convey, which is why it's such an awesome movie.