Why is this one of the best uses of magical realism in a high fantasy setting that I've seen in a kid's movie? Why is this one of De Niro's most entertaining roles ever? How had I not heard of a movie with such a star-studded cast until just now? I actually liked this a lot, I think for the world-building more than anything else. It'd be fun to watch a tv show set in this universe.
7/10. Way more fun than I was expecting.
A single day slice-of-life on one of the most stressful days possible: the day a poor illegal immigrant working as a take out delivery person in NYC finds out that his debt has come due and he can't afford it. It's a bit man vs wild, but the wild in this case is the entirety of NYC, from the citizens to the weather. A good demonstration of the trap of poverty - just waiting for the bike tire to pop or the order to be mistaken to totally unravel the progress of the day.
7/10. An authentic NYC poverty slice-of-life.
I went into this movie expecting a surreal Lynchian psychological horror. What I got instead was a shockingly heartwarming film based on the true of Joseph Merrick (called John in the film, portrayed by John Hurt). John Merrick was marketed as "the Elephant Man" when exhibited at a London freak show until he is rescued and housed in a nearby hospital by a kind doctor portrayed by Anthony Hopkins.
The Elephant Man, for me, is David Lynch showing that he…
"Don’t you want to save humanity?"
When actor-director Mohsen Makhmalbaf was 17 years old, he was a radical and stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and was arrested. Twenty years later, he decided to track down that policeman and make a movie about the stabbing starring the policeman in order to make amends. That’s what really happened.
What we see in the beginning moments of A Moment of Innocence is slightly different. In the film, the policeman wants to…
