Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) (5/10)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) (5/10)

While the movie pokes genuine fun at many social and cultural issues, it was neither subtle nor humorous in the political sense of the word. Or, in other words, it was generally needlessly gross. Its the kind of movie which is wasted upon the offenders in any case.

Finding Neverland (2004) (7/10)

It keeps you rivetted to the screen as the drama unfolds. It moves you up and down with its dreaming, and beliefs and beliefs in dreams. When you reflect on it, you realize that there is not all that much to reflect. Either you are a child, or you are not (though you may long to be one). They tried to do a glass bead game by not revealing what the play "actually" contains. The fragments are of course suggestive, but most of the rest then has to be filled in by you, your imagination, something central to the point being made. The quagmire of relationships is interesting to say the least. The movie operates at many levels and it is difficult to get them all. I wonder what the characters in tumbolina will say about the movie. That it is just a movie?

Finding Neverland (2004) (7/10)

Bronenosets Potyomkin aka Battleship Potemkin (1925) (6/10)

An epic movie about the Russian revolution. The revolution is almost shown as black and white. It is an important thing to understand. The need to revolt is an important one. And it can come through persistent oppression. When the pent up forces are let out, almost anything is possible. What are the lessons to be learnt? Are there lessons to be learnt? I don't know.

Bronenosets Potyomkin aka Battleship Potemkin (1925) (6/10)