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Got them tonight, missed at the cinema - reviews to follow as if anybody cares.
The Woodsman - Kevin Bacon plays Walter, a child molester recently released from 12yrs in prison and tries to get on with his life. Kyra Sedgewick is the woman at his work that takes an interest in him.
Hardly the feelgood movie of the year, but then what do you expect when going in knowing what this is about?
Bacon underplays superbly, as do the rest of the cast. It doesn't avoid his character's fascination/lust for pre-teen girls, nor does it become a Hollywood "All he needed was the love of a woman to redeem him" ending. Not an easy film to watch by any means, especially the last 20mins - but certainly worth viewing. Unless you're a foaming Daily Mail nazi, in which case feel free to scourge yourself having read my approval of subject matter such as this. Complex, involving, upsetting, thought provoking. 8/10
Hotel Rwanda - Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hotel manager who finds his country, life and future fall to pieces in the massacre of Tutsis by the Hutus. It's one of those films that isn't easy to watch, but should be watched. Nowhere near as preachy nor melodramatic as Schindler's List, and all the more powerful for it. Small moments of horror, a box of machetes falling open, a road blocked by hundreds of corpses of women & children that add up to a sick feeling. Knowing this is true makes it all the more powerful and poignant, watching the West pull all of their people out and standing by to let it happen - as in Zimbabwe today - made me furious to watch. As Joaquim Phoenix's character says when having to leave and an African porter covering him with an umbrella from the rain, "god I feel so ashamed".
Cheadle gives a phenomonal performance, one of quiet dignity & intelligence, now a showboating "one more jew" type Oscar nod that plagued Schindler's List. You don't doubt for one moment that Rusesabagina found himself in this position by accident, it's not some burning noble inner sense of justice at first. He wants his family to be safe, that's all. He just gets pulled into it, sheltering 1200 Tutsis in a genocidal rampage that left over a million corpses.
You really should watch this film.
The Woodsman - Kevin Bacon plays Walter, a child molester recently released from 12yrs in prison and tries to get on with his life. Kyra Sedgewick is the woman at his work that takes an interest in him.
Hardly the feelgood movie of the year, but then what do you expect when going in knowing what this is about?
Bacon underplays superbly, as do the rest of the cast. It doesn't avoid his character's fascination/lust for pre-teen girls, nor does it become a Hollywood "All he needed was the love of a woman to redeem him" ending. Not an easy film to watch by any means, especially the last 20mins - but certainly worth viewing. Unless you're a foaming Daily Mail nazi, in which case feel free to scourge yourself having read my approval of subject matter such as this. Complex, involving, upsetting, thought provoking. 8/10
Hotel Rwanda - Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hotel manager who finds his country, life and future fall to pieces in the massacre of Tutsis by the Hutus. It's one of those films that isn't easy to watch, but should be watched. Nowhere near as preachy nor melodramatic as Schindler's List, and all the more powerful for it. Small moments of horror, a box of machetes falling open, a road blocked by hundreds of corpses of women & children that add up to a sick feeling. Knowing this is true makes it all the more powerful and poignant, watching the West pull all of their people out and standing by to let it happen - as in Zimbabwe today - made me furious to watch. As Joaquim Phoenix's character says when having to leave and an African porter covering him with an umbrella from the rain, "god I feel so ashamed".
Cheadle gives a phenomonal performance, one of quiet dignity & intelligence, now a showboating "one more jew" type Oscar nod that plagued Schindler's List. You don't doubt for one moment that Rusesabagina found himself in this position by accident, it's not some burning noble inner sense of justice at first. He wants his family to be safe, that's all. He just gets pulled into it, sheltering 1200 Tutsis in a genocidal rampage that left over a million corpses.
You really should watch this film.
I saw Hotel Rwanda at the Cinema... Musta been a fair few months back.
When I saw posters for it I was kinda interested, but the bloodstained machete with a reflection of the characters in for some reason made me envisage a Shining-esque horror film that paid no attention to what acually happened. So I was pleasantly suprised when I saw it. And yeah, it was good that it didn't come across too preachy. Not exactly an 'enjoyable' film, but a very good one nonetheless.
When I saw posters for it I was kinda interested, but the bloodstained machete with a reflection of the characters in for some reason made me envisage a Shining-esque horror film that paid no attention to what acually happened. So I was pleasantly suprised when I saw it. And yeah, it was good that it didn't come across too preachy. Not exactly an 'enjoyable' film, but a very good one nonetheless.
Hotel Rowanda I found to be on one hand utterly bleak, yet on the other an amazingly uplifting experience. Where most movies would show the carnage involved in varying detail this does so as a third party observer (the video footage for example), by far the most chilling sequence in this movie is machetes being dragged across the road to sharpen them, and the sound produced.
A movie that everyone should watch IMHO.
The Woodsman is extraordinarily complex and morally ambiguous, a movie for grownups. By that I mean people who can approach the subject matter with maturity.
A movie that everyone should watch IMHO.
The Woodsman is extraordinarily complex and morally ambiguous, a movie for grownups. By that I mean people who can approach the subject matter with maturity.
The Woodsman is the perfect movie to make you feel uncomfortable for the whole of that "bench" scene..
Got them tonight, missed at the cinema - reviews to follow as if anybody cares.
The Woodsman - Kevin Bacon plays Walter, a child molester recently released from 12yrs in prison and tries to get on with his life. Kyra Sedgewick is the woman at his work that takes an interest in him.
Hardly the feelgood movie of the year, but then what do you expect when going in knowing what this is about?
Bacon underplays superbly, as do the rest of the cast. It doesn't avoid his character's fascination/lust for pre-teen girls, nor does it become a Hollywood "All he needed was the love of a woman to redeem him" ending. Not an easy film to watch by any means, especially the last 20mins - but certainly worth viewing. Unless you're a foaming Daily Mail nazi, in which case feel free to scourge yourself having read my approval of subject matter such as this. Complex, involving, upsetting, thought provoking. 8/10
Hotel Rwanda - Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hotel manager who finds his country, life and future fall to pieces in the massacre of Tutsis by the Hutus. It's one of those films that isn't easy to watch, but should be watched. Nowhere near as preachy nor melodramatic as Schindler's List, and all the more powerful for it. Small moments of horror, a box of machetes falling open, a road blocked by hundreds of corpses of women & children that add up to a sick feeling. Knowing this is true makes it all the more powerful and poignant, watching the West pull all of their people out and standing by to let it happen - as in Zimbabwe today - made me furious to watch. As Joaquim Phoenix's character says when having to leave and an African porter covering him with an umbrella from the rain, "god I feel so ashamed".
Cheadle gives a phenomonal performance, one of quiet dignity & intelligence, now a showboating "one more jew" type Oscar nod that plagued Schindler's List. You don't doubt for one moment that Rusesabagina found himself in this position by accident, it's not some burning noble inner sense of justice at first. He wants his family to be safe, that's all. He just gets pulled into it, sheltering 1200 Tutsis in a genocidal rampage that left over a million corpses.
You really should watch this film.
The Woodsman - Kevin Bacon plays Walter, a child molester recently released from 12yrs in prison and tries to get on with his life. Kyra Sedgewick is the woman at his work that takes an interest in him.
Hardly the feelgood movie of the year, but then what do you expect when going in knowing what this is about?
Bacon underplays superbly, as do the rest of the cast. It doesn't avoid his character's fascination/lust for pre-teen girls, nor does it become a Hollywood "All he needed was the love of a woman to redeem him" ending. Not an easy film to watch by any means, especially the last 20mins - but certainly worth viewing. Unless you're a foaming Daily Mail nazi, in which case feel free to scourge yourself having read my approval of subject matter such as this. Complex, involving, upsetting, thought provoking. 8/10
Hotel Rwanda - Don Cheadle plays Paul Rusesabagina, the real life hotel manager who finds his country, life and future fall to pieces in the massacre of Tutsis by the Hutus. It's one of those films that isn't easy to watch, but should be watched. Nowhere near as preachy nor melodramatic as Schindler's List, and all the more powerful for it. Small moments of horror, a box of machetes falling open, a road blocked by hundreds of corpses of women & children that add up to a sick feeling. Knowing this is true makes it all the more powerful and poignant, watching the West pull all of their people out and standing by to let it happen - as in Zimbabwe today - made me furious to watch. As Joaquim Phoenix's character says when having to leave and an African porter covering him with an umbrella from the rain, "god I feel so ashamed".
Cheadle gives a phenomonal performance, one of quiet dignity & intelligence, now a showboating "one more jew" type Oscar nod that plagued Schindler's List. You don't doubt for one moment that Rusesabagina found himself in this position by accident, it's not some burning noble inner sense of justice at first. He wants his family to be safe, that's all. He just gets pulled into it, sheltering 1200 Tutsis in a genocidal rampage that left over a million corpses.
You really should watch this film.