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by gerard manley hopkins where a young girl s first experience of grief serves as a painful step towards spiritual maturity in a sense this is a familiar coming of age story but one where true self awareness comes from separating selfish me from what is meaningful when she inadvertently causes a terrible accident teenager lisa cohen is confronted with the arbitrary injustice of life a stranger literally dies in her arms and lisa spends the rest of the movie trying to make sense of this senseless death at first understandably she is traumatised she wants only to forget about the accident later when she can t forget she decides she wants somebody to blame lisa thinks of herself as a moral person but her story isn t about the virtue of doing the right thing the world of this movie is to quote swami vivekananda a moral gymnasium wherein we have all to take exercise so as to become stronger spiritually in short lisa s values have no worth until they re tested by the world some critics have called margaret a post 9 11 movie but it s so graceful in its allusions you don t become aware of them until you pause to reflect there is no crude allegory at work here nor does recognising these allusions detract from the drama or reduce any single character to the status of a puppet or make the audience feel duped the central premise of margaret just fits with reactions to 9 11 because it s a movie about the insane difficulty of seeing someone else s point of view it s about how we communicate with people who aren t like us how we falsify people by making assumptions about them how strident we become when we only listen to one voice what s amazing is that it doesn t get touchy feely lisa is not an angry teenage cliché who learns to love by the end of the movie or rather and here s the really clever part she is an angry teenager who learns to love by the end of the movie but the screenplay is neither gloopy nor clichéd lisa might take a superficial point of view about certain subjects the accident u s foreign policy but there s nothing superficial about her character she is both a manipulative self centred drama queen and an extremely moral eloquent idealist and it s these contradictions that make her human like the rest of the cast she s a pain in the ass sometimes things happen which bother her and she doesn t respond with the equanimity of a saint half the time she s too busy reeling she s as smart if not smarter than most of the people she meets and yet they never speak or react as she anticipates as we all know it s frustrating to be wrong when you know you re in the right new york is the ideal setting for this story because it bristles with life kenneth lonergan doesn t want to make a movie where everyone learns to get along there s nothing sappy or spielberg about margaret moral choice in this film is not the usual movie guff about choosing to be good when the alternative is to be bad it s about how difficult it is to be objective conflicting points of view abound in this story lisa scarcely opens her mouth and she s caused offence she lives in a city full of unabashed humanity smart complex people surround her all jostling for the spotlight as one woman scolds lisa with righteous indignation we are not supporting characters in the fascinating story of your life this movie wants to rattle spectators you re not safe in your little narcissistic cocoon you don t get to act superior to lisa or to pretend you know what the right thing is she should do you re in her shoes your heart s scrambled i dare you not to cry what makes this movie truly great is that it doesn t ask you to switch off your brain so it can move you the crackle of ideas isn t doused by sentiment this movie is adamantly against a purely emotional response to complex issues in the poem which inspired margaret the key line is where the poet speaks of how in her maturity the young woman will weep and know why feeling alone is not meaningful it s what feeling connects us to that we call profound leave a comment american film film reviews tagged anna paquin gerard manley hopkins kenneth lonergan permalink posted by jtatham infinite jest a review august 10 2012 you have a chance to occur to make for you this second world that is always the same with always a purpose to keep this world alive so says a wise old tennis instructor the key to understanding david foster wallace s masterpiece is the concept of human agency the gift of choice and how if you abdicate your responsibility to choose if you just love without deciding if you just do then in such a case your temple is self and sentiment then in such an instance you are a fanatic of desire a slave to your individual subjective narrow self s sentiments you become a citizen of nothing you are by yourself and alone kneeling to yourself addiction the big theme of this book is a way of hiding from real life read the rest of this entry leave a comment book reviews tagged david foster wallace don gately hal incandenza joelle van dyne permalink posted by jtatham the dark knight rises a review july 23 2012 here s a movie that can t win we ve already had the definitive batman unforgettable scenes are already in our heads heath ledger won an oscar for his immortal turn as the ultimate villain there is no way to top the dark knight no reason ever to want to go back unless of course you count money and it s fair to say the one thing new movie doesn t lack is adequate funds bruce wayne goes bankrupt in this film in what could be read as an in joke about exorbitant costs the dark knight rises is bigger in every way than its predecessor but you can t buy lightning in a bottle no paycheque will bring heath ledger back as bane the muscle bound new villain has to learn there are limits to bulk read the rest of this entry 1 comment american film film reviews tagged christian bale christopher nolan heath ledger tom hardy permalink posted by jtatham killer joe a review july 2 2012 i like vulgar movies i d pick a vulgar movie over something tasteful any day this isn t specifically because i like to be shocked i just think there s more life in so called bad taste william friedkin s killer joe based on a stage play by tracy letts is a good example of what i mean very little of what happens in this movie is pleasant it starts with scheming betrayal and a middle aged woman brandishing her pubic hair and it only gets wilder from there on out if i didn t like the movie i d say it was lurid but i did like it so i say it s vulgar i grant you the difference between the two words is subjective perhaps even spurious if i had to try to define it i guess i d say i prefer the baroque to the grotesque read the rest of this entry leave a comment american film film reviews tagged juno temple matthew mcconaughey william friedkin permalink posted by jtatham prometheus a review june 10 2012 every prequel is a badly told joke the kind where the comedian shoehorns in extra details adding oh yeah and the penguin was jewish after the punch line prequels are even worse than a bad joke in fact because what they add is always unnecessary they re the story before the story based on a false premise that the audience cares what happened before this is the worst kind of craven hollywood thinking in effect a prequel says we re so out of ideas so lacking in integrity we re not even satisfied with copying good ideas in sequels any more we need a new way to defame the original so we ve come up with this the prequel wholly useless and asked for by no one i give you prometheus read the rest of this entry 2 comments american film film reviews tagged damon lindelof michael fassbender noomi rapace ridley scott permalink posted by jtatham the raid a review may 22 2012 any action becomes monotonous when it s repeated too often even fist fighting with drug dealers gets boring after the hundredth brawl yeah yeah another bone crunching blow to the jaw blah blah blah another psychotic kick to the ribs you can t muster enthusiasm for ass kicking indefinitely beyond a certain point you re being hectored more than you re being thrilled the new action movie the raid suffers from inertia because it doesn t know when to stop like the continual motion of a washing machine the film s constant velocity lulls you to sleep oh they re fighting again is all you can think as the pummelling goes on turns out it s a thin line between a bravura fight sequence and flogging a dead horse read the rest of this entry leave a comment film reviews international film tagged bruce willis gareth evans iko uwais jackie chan permalink posted by jtatham the pale king a review april 25 2012 routine repetition tedium monotony ephemeracy inconsequence abstraction disorder boredom angst ennui these are the true hero s enemies and make no mistake they are fearsome indeed for they are real so we are warned by david foster wallace his novel the pale king is a clerical epic set in the catacombs of the internal revenue service where men and women fight against the soul murdering nature of their dreary repetitive jobs and the true heroes embrace boredom as a path to bliss wallace believes in enlightenment through wilful attention to complexity the enemy here is not tedium but the idea that the majority of life is tedious boredom is the coward s way out a hero welcomes monotony read the rest of this entry leave a comment book reviews tagged chris fogle david foster wallace leonard stecyk shane drinion permalink posted by jtatham the cabin in the woods a review april 18 2012 well kids if you want to know what the 90s were like the cabin in the woods isn t a bad primer people had a lot of fun back in the 90s with concepts like irony the tv show buffy the vampire slayer became a touchstone for the smart dumb paradigm and the show s creator joss whedon was revered like a king funnily enough joss whedon is the writer of the cabin in the woods so i m not too surprised that the movie plays like a good episode of buffy all the whedon trademarks are here sexy girls smart aleck quips a hefty dose of meta fiction and a splodge of the macabre the result feels like being pricked by a pair of inverted commas while it might tickle you with its cleverness irony never cuts too deep read the rest of this entry leave a comment american film film reviews tagged bradley whitford joss whedon kirsten connelly richard jenkins permalink posted by jtatham the cold light of day a review april 10 2012 flattery will get you anywhere in a thriller the whole genre is founded on subconscious bravado the secret belief that when faced with injustice any regular joe could win a fight if i was mad enough you kid yourself if my loved ones were in danger you lie the truth is most of us couldn t whip cream let alone the ass of a man with a gun who would most likely shoot you before you found your gumption thrillers understand that the audience is deluded more walter mitty than john mcclane in a movie like the cold light of day the film makers don t even bother explaining how the civilian hero becomes jason bourne he does so because he s in a thriller the rest is left to your cocky imagination read the rest of this entry leave a comment american film film reviews tagged bruce willis henry cavill sigourney weaver walter mitty permalink posted by jtatham the hunger games a review march 25 2012 this is the b list movie everyone wants to see it might be shallow derivative and cheap looking but none of that matters the fan base is ravenous for millions of teenage girls across america the hunger games is the new twilight when the audience is hungry for a film you ve got a hit forget vampires and abstinence fiction for young adults young women is all about dystopias now it s all set in ruined futures where teenage girls have to fend for themselves against their hormones the only hangover from twilight is that cute boys still out number the girls by a libidinous margin of two to one really what you re looking at is sex and the city if carrie bradshaw had a bow and arrow and two mr bigs read the rest of this entry leave a comment american film film reviews tagged carrie bradshaw gary ross jennifer lawrence suzanne collins permalink posted by jtatham previous entries facebook facebook search search the lamb email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up join 19 other subscribers twitter goodreads 10 films on facebook 10 films promote your page too slick flick competition slickflick is an innovative platform and a great new medium for storytellers the aim is to make stories out of pictures you the storyteller create a narrative series of photographs filled with imagination urgency wit and desire slick flick brings your story to the world turn your short film into a photo story enter the competition blog stats 72 672 hits archives august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 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