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The Social Network (2010)
An über-master piece of work from Hollywood works almost as a sequel for Fight Club, believe me...
OK, just like an ordinary David Fincher fan or an ordinary Facebook user right after I heard he was gonna direct a movie about Facebook my initial response was not any different from anyone else, not at all.Do we really need a movie about Facebook ? That website already captivated basis of our social life (or even the crumbs of what is left of...), the website we check mornin-noon-night.Did he really accept that offer when rumours suggesting another film-noirs, sci-fi movies a movie centered on the most popular "thing" out there.I was wrong, dead wrong.
The Social Network is not a Facebook film as many of knew even before we saw it thanks to critics.Do you think it's a biopic of Zuckerberg & the Gang ? No.
David Fincher simply did what he did a decade ago he tells men and their problematic of existence, he told what was going wrong at the 90's (an aspect let's say).The Social Network is depicting again dead-ends of late 2000s and unfortunately the decade we are about the live.Nothing is ever-never enough...
Marck Zuckerberg dissed the movie cos the story was further from fact.Who cares ? That dude still feels this movie is about his path of success.It as about that generation when they reach the sky they can never fill the hole in their souls.
Film opens and closes in the same manner Mark having a conversation with the girl he loves but at the end she is not even there the billion worthy invention of his is standing right in the middle.He is just a dude keeps hitting that F5 like me.That modern world we call so just lies there.In between.
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation is flawless.David Fincher took a script with full of dialogs and told the way as fast as it can be which I suppose was not a piece of cake.
Mad Men (2007)
Magnum Opus of the medium TV, Mad Men are terrific and genius.
I must admit I'm more likely to be shocked how many users find this drama dull.I remember the night I had the chance to gaze at one of episodes for couple of minutes.Betty posing for a coke ad didn't seem charming or appealing to me at all, I changed the channel...
Long after the series won the Emmies, beautiful tunes of David Carnobora buzzed into my ear via commercials and I thought I might have to get the complete DVD.
HBO absolutely made their worst business move maybe in their history by dissing this show.Cos Made Men is clever, cool, charismatic, sexy but more over it's targeting the audience HBO has created over years.Not random Americans who switch between Idol, a weirdo doctors unpleasant patients who will recover thanks to him or ugly police officers digging a carpet for a strand to discover a guy who you already know committed a homicide.
OK lemme tell you about why I adore this show.Mad Men is ultimately written by people who has a giant caliber of creativity and talent.This show demands the audience to be careful, tedious, curious about what they are watching.This show is not to be figured out in a single episode.After I completed season one I had some feeling towards what Weiner had in his mind while pitching the series to channel executives.Do not let the name fool you, Mad Men is not about ad- business or copywriters, show merely talks about ads, even when they are doing an ad.It is about America, how America transferred itself -and the world which depended on it- through out the sixties.In which manners capitalism can market itself with big lies.
By showing us the differences between 60's and 2000's series easily projects ideas about our time during a past decade.Characters in the show are so real, then I mean not just protagonist Don Draper, every other big, tiny or one time characters gets his/her time on screen and therefore show builds up a magnificent universe which you believe it exits and roam safely.Mad Men is not show yelling or speaking out loud, it politely whispers...We the audience witness a group of peoples lives in NYC, Matthew Weiner cleverly puts mile stone political, social events of USA balanced with everyday life of people as well, balanced fastidiously.The one biggest disappointing down side of Mad Men is that there are almost zero on-location shootings.We never get to see the - city- or anything else.This gives the feeling of being locked in sometimes for the viewer.Cast is totally cool and sexy with their superb retro wardrobe.Jon Hamm is the perfect choice for a lead, January Jones is so sexy that you can't get her out of your mind.Smokey, brownish production design is sweet and elegant.Also soundtrack selecting is so much joyful.
I can't say Mad Men is an easy chew.You have to be patient also alert.As I sad you can get a clear feeling only after watching an entire season.Do you want to watch the same TV shows over seasons or want some fun, intelligent brain gymnastics ? The codes of Mad Men are there to decode for your own sake.Do not miss it...
Public Enemies (2009)
A good action film, but that's it.
Like many more I was waiting another 'Heat'.As many said before, this film isn't.Mann resonantly burdens films weight on Depp's shoulders despite the cast he has under his hand.Which of course Depp menages to handle all alone but one thing he can't seem to success on his own is revealing who he really is.Who was Dillinger, why the hell he did die trying to reunite with a cloak girl ? His motives, morales simply could not be fed to us as simply with '...daddy beat the hell out of me' sentence.Heat was a true epic with compromising all the casts individualities but Public Enemies does not even give a hunch about who they are, not to mention Purvis, the fonder of FBI, his girl.Over all Mann captures very well made, raw, realistic, non-glamorous actions sequences in his movie one should admire. Fun to watch, to lack too big in characters and what was going on at that time in USA.
Into the Wild (2007)
Stupid life of a loser
I was a little hesitant to see this cos of Penn's over-emotionally charged material he directed before.Guess what I was right at the beginning.I'm sure that guy has been through a couple of things in his life but.It's a brave thing demands guts to leave your family like that.Overall is this the right way of telling his story.Penn is so much pretentious it made me puke.Over-long and just cos you have the rights to use Eddie Vedder's beautiful voice doesn't mean you should every minute.Multi layered time structure sure added some grip in it but that's all.Penn demands your empathy way too much, why the audience ought to feel sorry for him cos he ate a bad fruit ?