Movies, Drama
If I could decide the Oscars all by myself, the King (Forest Whitaker) and the Queen (Helen Mirren) would receive the 2007 Oscars for best actor. (Postscript February 26: they did win the Oscars!) The two roles could not be more different. But Whitaker and Mirren individually deliver one of the best performances in the history of cinema portraying a real human being. Mirren plays the reigning Queen of England (see my review of a few weeks ago) whereas Forest Whitaker plays the Idi Amin, who brutally ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Forest Whitaker has given many fine performances, for example in The Crying Game. Playing the complicated and contradictory personality of Amin has handed Whitaker a role that I am sure will become his defining performance. The feelings you experience in The Last King of Scotland could not be more different from The Queen. The Queen satisfies oneThe Last King of Scotland
Movies, Drama
Sarah (Kate Winslet) and Brad (Patrick Wilson) meet on a playground in a suburb of Boston just as their marriage is entering a difficult period. They feel an immediate attraction. Little Children chronicles how people who are stuck in a staid, lifeless marriage struggle when they develop extra-marital romantic feelings, unexpectedly standing before a temptation they thought only other people could yield to. The interesting part of the Little Children, however, is not this main plot, but the story of the other characters that show up in the community of Sarah and Brad: a man who had been in prison for exposing himself to little children, a crazy ex-policemen who makes it his mission to protect the community from this “pervert,” the mother of the “pervert” who tries to get her son’s mind off children by finding him a wife through newspaper ads;Little Children
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