Wednesday 6 April 2011

The love hate relationship: films/movies




I urge you, watch Repo men (2010) and Push (2009) one after the other - a shock to the system. No real shock, no, the shock just entails a hopeless realization that there is a mountain range of insignificant movies that stretches through the American film industry. Fortunately we live in an age of digital storage; waste in this case.

Repo men is one of the many 'set in the near future' features, only this one has Jude Law playing a Jason Statham-like, brutal british guy who kills a lot of people in a blur of blood and 'emotions'. Watching this film you constantly try and remind yourself to pay attention to the film instead of making schematic connotations to other films. Push is just another effort to 'push' the now adolescent Dakota Fanning into the dictionary of 'emerging young actresses'. The schematic referencing was also done in bad taste, at least it's a bit more engaging if you try your best.

The meagre feeling after watching these movies in sequence only subsides when you remember the better films you have watched in the past, some even masterpieces. Then you let out a sigh of both relief and discontentment; you realize that for those 'films' you admire most there needs to be 'movies' that you detest as much. In other words on the mountain range, be it in America or South Africa, the films that enjoy the highest peaks need the base of the mountain merely as 'height enhancers'.

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