Change Your Image
ladysamfox
Reviews
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
I don't know what to think
This film has been stuck in my head for days. I feel so confronted and exposed-I am forced to realize how much I am brainwashed by media. See, I wanted the end to be like an episode of NYPD blue or something. All solved. I wanted a clear answer to what happened. I wanted to be led to some sort of conclusion.
But the greatness of this film is that it does not do your thinking for you. You sit there, uncomfortable-watching a sad and painful and dark dark dark situation play out...and you are left wondering.
What really happened? I want to say that i know the three friedman boys were abused by their father-based on what? instinct? intuition? or am I just a thoughtless lemming, carried on a wave of hysteria? child abuse? or witch hunt?
Threat (2006)
finally saw this movie!
hi. i bought this movie this weekend and have watched it twice in a row. i have to say i am blown away. i can't believe a bunch of "nobodies" (by hollyweird standards) were able to pull off such an ambitious film-and then get it out there. screw "crash"- threat made me think about race and class issues and violence in such a profound way. i can't stop talking about it! the film-making group does not spoon feed you an agenda (see crash for that)-but rather puts the violence in your face after beautifully setting up the tension under the everyday surface-the fights were so realistic and left me feeling sick to my stomach. threat shows that all brutal violence is misdirected-no matter what good place it comes from-and it shows how extremism snowballs... in the movie-there are no good guys and bad guys--i mean even the thuggie straightedge kids start out with good intentions! and you see the "infighting" when the more extremist kids splinter off from the lead and the more positive group.
as you can see, i can go on and on about this movie-haha just ask my roommate! ;)- it is a "must see!"