Movies, Drama
The Butterfly effect was coined by scientists who discovered that small changes can have dramatic consequences over long distances (both in space and time). A hurricane in the U.S. may have been set off by the flap of a butterfly wing in Honk Kong. The film applies this idea to the life of individual people. The first third of the movie is not very exciting, but then the drama picks up as we are suddenly drawn into different possible realities. The main character has problems with memory either because of a genetic predisposition or childhood mistreatment. As he is trying to remember what happened, we are presented with different versions of the past and we no longer know which one is true. Small changes in childhood events lead to very different adult lives.The Butterfly Effect
Movies, Drama
I rented this movie because I heard that Tom Hank’s who plays an FedEx employee shipwrecked on a small island entertains you all by himself for an hour and a half. It is not true. The movie is painfully slow in large part because it has nothing significant to say. I had so much time while watching the film that I almost wrote an entire script for a another Robin Crusoe movie. In my script the stranded person, contrary what you would expect of the genre, does not get rescued but after a long life dies all alone on peacefully island. Because the person strangely enough lived out an interesting life on the island you are not upset about this end. Rather you would leave the cinema telling yourself yourself: Hey, if one can have a meaningful life all by yourself on a small island one should have a great life in the midst of civilization! Cast Away is predictable and boring.Cast Away
Movies, Drama
One reason why people see the same film in very different ways is that we filter it through our past experiences and hopes for the future. Grapes of Wrath, made in 1940, documents the hardship of one family that can no longer make a living on the depleted soil of Oklahoma and leaves the Dust Bowl for California. The family believes California to be the land of milk and honey. But during the Great Depression jobs are very hard to come by even in California. The family finds it very difficult to put enough food on the table. In this struggle for survival the family disintegrates in part because individual members think they can survive better individually. I once heard that President Roosevelt through his New Deal polices savedGrapes of Wrath
Movies, Drama
Kinsey is quilt-like, stringing together scenes that are crafted with brillance and others that are poorly conceived and enacted. I wish the writer-director had spent a little more time removing the occasional second rate material from the film. What makes the movie charming is our amazement about how far western society has travelled in only 60 years when it comes to talking and thinking about sex. Kinsey interviewed thousands of Americans of all races and classes in the 1940s and recorded their sexual biographies. The strongest scene in the entire film happens shortly after Kinsey’s mother passes away and when Kinsey asks his unappreciating, dictatorial father to sit for one these scientific interviews. To appreciate the situation, think about how you would react to finding out everything about your parent’s sexual history…Kinsey
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