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Derren Brown: The Heist (2006)
Derren Brown does it again
Derren Brown convinces 3 out of 4 sleazy middle-management business types to commit armed robbery. Brilliant! Yet again proof that "mind control" and the power of persuasion is a real usable tool in the modern world. I did find it a bit strange that the guests invited to the seminar weren't a bit more suspicious as Derren Brown slowly introduced the colours, the words, the symbols and the Jackson 5 song and when all the factors were recreated in the street. And the expressions on the guests faces during the paired words/electric shock test were pretty horrific at some points. Overall however, I feel that Derren Brown has yet again put forward a thought provoking- and entertaining- study of the malleability of the human mind. Recommended viewing as a non mind-numbing piece of reality TV.
Wolf Creek (2005)
see it
This film horrified me so much I wanted to get up and leave the cinema half way through... (I'll let y'all guess at which point that was!). I had to take a break and remind myself that what was showing on the screen was fictitious (although not entirely). What an amazing movie though, and whoever it was that posted a comment about the uncomfortableness that the movie makes you feel was entirely correct. The way they set up the characters was very clever, when the movie initially began I thought it was going to be quite lame but the relaxed calm atmosphere made the horrific scenes that came later all the more effective. This movie will haunt me for quite some time and serves as a reminder of the dangers that still exist in the world. The fact that the antagonist was human just makes this horror stand out so much more than a lot of the others I have seen. A true Horror movie. See it!
Song of the South (1946)
Sweet Childhood Memories
I used to watch this movie a lot when I was younger. My grandmother, somehow or other, had a copy of it on VHS. It was one of my all time favourite movies for a long, long time . I have such fond memories of wanting to watch it all the time every time I visited my Grandmother. A Childhood Classic if ever there was one. Although I remember very little of the actual plot of the movie (I still know the majority of the words to 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah') and I can remember it being full of very uplifting music. The cartoon characters were a very vibrant part of the movie, interacting with the human actors in a very convincing way for the period the movie was made in. I think that it is a great shame that Disney have chosen to forget about this-one of their very best movies in my opinion- classic little gem. Highly recommend it to everybody!