‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007) Film Review
“Stand by your word. Make fair rules. Do the right thing.” -Tao Te Ching Chapter 8, Stephen Addis Translation No Country for Old Men explores the significance of high-civilized society, wherein the complexity of its internal movable parts exposes the contingency of gremlins in the engine, unbeknownst in possibility to the otherwise rough’n’tumble reality
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‘The Godfather Part II’ (1974) Film Review
The Godfather Part II (1974) Film Review Can’t a man get a good night’s sleep? Such a thunderous opening of the continuation of a family which has the appearance of love but in actuality lives in deceit contains that precious emerald of The Hebrew Canon: But the wicked are like the troubled sea;
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‘Visioneers’ (2008) Film Review
In a brutally stark confrontation with nihilism, Visioneers charmingly adds comedy to what an Albert Camus would define as absurd: the ease of living life without an ounce of suffering causes spontaneous combusting, and a population sensationalized into avoiding even further harm. The main protagonist George (Zack Galafianakis) is whimsically a custodian at his
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‘Downfall’ (2004) Film Review
In Downfall, the inevitability of grandiosity of a nation, and the megalomania of its relentless hell-bent leader, has a lengthy treatment in the observation of an unending belief in the righteousness of German people per se. The film appropriately lets the viewer into what is only imagined in the constant learning to the downfall
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‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006) Film Review
Are excellent demands worth the price? Is the jockeying unto prestige all there is in life? Or is this just the life of the city, and its calibers of highness? No doubt Middletown, Ohioville lacks the same gusto of the ambitious striving for more worldly acclaim. Yet they also lack the vocabulary of cerulean. Is
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‘This Property is Condemned’ (1966) Film Review
What is Pollyanish but the fanciful? And what is Nature but the destroyer of fanciful ideas, towards grounding the self into the more ultimatum of existence? To choose more life not less, then, requires a focused attention on what is right around the corner. Because the beer is that easy to be had and lost.
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