The King's Speech

As the moment approaches, the fear seizes the heart, paralyzes the mind, and suffocates the lungs.

In front of the moment, the tongue gets more tied, the words trapped in the throat, the looks of pity accentuates the discomfort.

The moment seems an endless suffering.

This is how a stutterer lives the moments of his “handicap”.

From the first scene of “The King's Speech” you can feel and live the situation very truly, which made the success of the movie. The message is clear and strong, no matter how bad your situation is, it is possible to overcome it, and don’t worry, you are not alone.

The Last Airbender

I saw almost all the movies of Mr. Night Shyamalan: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village; and I have an idea about his other movies: The Happening and Lady in the Water. The Last Airbender is completely out of the usual style of its predecessors, Mr. Night use to give us a new perspective of known and unknown things, simple and complex, with an intelligent storyline, strong believable characters, and a message. None of those things is present in “The Last Airbender”, it is completely shallow.

Because I respect Mr. Night and his record, I did a little search about the work, and found first that the story is an adaptation of an animated series: “Avatar: the last air bender”, which was a big success according to the ones whom watched it, they even say that the movie has completely destroyed the spirit of the series. Secondly I found that the movie was hated by the majority (specialists and audience) -so it is not just me-, and it received with the director respectively the worst picture and the worst director award of 2010 (which I think is exaggerated).

From a talented and an intelligent writer and director like Mr. Night, this movie can not be a mistake, it must be deliberately and purposely done this way, I don’t believe he is the one who puts to much effort and money in something he knew that it will be a disaster, I think it is a kind of an audacious experiment he is conducting on us, which we will see the results in the coming years.

Hors la lois (Outside the Law)

Outside the Law is the second movie of Rachid Bouchareb after “The days of glory”, it is like a sequel but not, it focuses on the Algerian struggle to have the independence from France after the WWII, and especially the struggle by the Algerians living in France.

The film making is better then the last one - The days of glory - , with a beautiful music and cinematography, a great performance of the actors which are the same from The days of glory, and amazingly they played the same characters in the two movies: Saïd, Messaoud, Abdelkader. In “The days of glory” they were just friends of the battlefield, in “Outside the Law” they were brothers. In my opinion the use of the same characters by Rachid Bouchareb was very intelligent, it marks the fact that in every one of the Algerian people during the struggle there was Saïd, Messaoud or Abdelkader, those characters are a kind of a factorial of many stories in the struggle of the Algerian people.

Despite the little poor story that did not reflect precisely all the aspects of the struggle by the Algerians living in France, the movie was nominated for an OSCAR in the category of Foreign Language Film (83rd academy awards).

It is a nice movie; it shows a historical reality unknown by many persons.

Indigènes (Days of Glory)

The days of glory illustrate a part of the history during the World War 2, when the French resistance commanded by general de Gaulle gathered a new army to fight with the allies, this new army was called ‘les indigènes’, they were men recruited from the countries occupied by the French empire.

The movie shows how they participate in the liberation of the French Republic from the Nazis, and how during the war they suffered from injustice inside the army, they were “under feeded, not well dressed and not well trained” comparing to the French soldiers, in spite of they struggled believing the day of liberty is close.

The idea to tell the story of those called ‘les indigènes’ was great, but not well exposed, the scenario and the emotions were poor, the whole movie was about the North African soldiers (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), especially the Algerian ones, certainly because of the background of the director who is originally from Algeria.

The good thing about the movie was the music which was very interesting and very expressive, and the performance of the actors, great combination between the French language and the Arabic language.

It is a nice movie after all, because it shows a historical reality unknown by many persons.

The Hurt Locker

The hurt locker drag you deep in what a soldier can feel or became in a dirty war, you can feel during the movie what the soldiers feel, you feel that you are smothered by the scenes you’ve watched and experienced, you feel inhuman by the pain you’ve bring and done, you feel lost between your duty and your morals.

In this kind of war we notice that almost all of the field soldiers are very young, which is an intentional choice of the war's makers, because the young ones are mentally very vulnerable, so very handy, then it is easy to switch the minds of the soldiers from the real world to a video game world and make them do horrible things to themselves and to the others.

In the end, if you don’t die in this real “video game”, you will belong to two categories, those who get used to this game and can not quit it, and those who get abused by this game, in the end the both categories will be threw in the real world with a hidden or obvious mental disorder.

To avoid a catastrophe, we need new leaders, leaders who can redefine the true meaning of Truth, Justice, and Peace.

Knight and Day

If you are looking for a light combination of action, humor, story, and romance in a single movie, then you have to see "Knight and Day". From the begining to the end you have just to let yourself go with the briliant tale.

The performance of "Tom Cruise" and "Cameron Diaz" was astonishing, they were amazingly completing each other in almost all the actions, they just fit very well.

Also a very good mark to the music, smooth, fashionable, and restful.

Enjoy it.

Legion

Legion is an illustration of a prophecy, of a time when the entire world would be covered in darkness of extermination, an extermination like happened a long time ago and called the flood. It is the consequence for what men have done, “…kill each other over race and greed... ...waging war over dust and rubble and the words in old books”.

The mankind tramples the gift of God over the times, and we are still doing the same thing, ignoring that we have being chosen by God, chosen to spread the light.

We All know, believers and not believers, that the judgment day is coming, deep inside our hearts we know that we will be judged for our deeds, just ask your self if you will not wake up tomorrow, if it turns out that today is your last day on earth, would you be proud of what you've done in this life? Would you be able to answer your Creator?

Inception

Inception is a movie about a very interesting subject, the dreams. In the movie Christopher Nolan shows how the dreams can be powerful, in a good way when it’s used to maximize the potential of the mind; and in a bad way when it’s harmful, used to penetrate deep in others mind to steal a secret or to plant an idea.

The movie provides a good entertainment, but I think that it was insufficient; the 140 min was not enough to develop the complexity of the subject, that’s why the characters were a little empty, and the story moves fast from one scene to another, it's hard to keep up, even after watching it several times.

Also in some parts of the movie I felt that I’m watching Batman, I don’t know if it was deliberately or no, especially the music, from Hans Zimmer, I was waiting to be enchanted as usual, but I was not, and I found to many fragments that sounds like the soundtrack of Batman.

Finally it is not bad, so enjoy it.

Sincerly.

Gamer

Gamer is a violent dirty movie, with a lot of blood and nudity. They said it is a vision of the future, I think it’s not, because we are already living in a world where some ones are using others and some ones are used by others, where some ones are abusing others and some ones are abused by others, and we can see how bad is the humans to each other across the times .

This movie makes me wonder if we are influencing TV, or are we influenced by TV, it is very hard to find a simple answer, may be the simple answer is “both”, we influence and we are influenced.

Finally I am scared, where are we going like this? Certainly not to better days…

Tears of the Sun:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke

The Movie "Tears of the Sun:" is about the words above, and make us think how many times we walked away from doing the right thing, to be a good men and prevent evil from triumph. 

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