Are there mistakes so bad that you can’t come back from them? That your family can’t move on from them?
Leaves that major question perfectly unresolved in the long term. But says: You can forget for a moment, for a wedding, for some music.
You can hold horror anger love and joy all at the same time.
This movies holds all of them at the same time, and is therefore truly a unique masterpiece.
Just the first two minutes and the final two minutes alone are better than most movies.
The Butler is a Forrest Gump-like fly-over of 20th century American history. Trying to tell two stories at once, we get the tale of a poorer than dirt kid who became a white house butler for thirty years, and also, the entire chronicle of American civil rights. Forrest Gump did not explore American problems; instead it milked humour from the protagonist’s obliviousness. The Butler, conversely, dives into America’s muck. The protagonist Cecil Gaines is starkly aware of, and victimized by,…
If nothing else, The Cornetto Trilogy is a labour of love. Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost obviously have a blast making these films, but what makes them so satisfying is the level of effort and detail put into producing and scripting. In The World's End, Edgar Wright carefully plans shots early in the film that will be repeated later, taking on new meanings when they do (e.g. watching the sunset on the hill, or five guys walking down…
