Babel
My best advice is to go into this film with as few preconceptions as possible and enjoy an experience that’s become increasingly rare since the heyday of the 1970s: an intelligent Hollywood film with something important on its mind.
Lasermannen
Lasermannen is a superb series. It oozes a creepy, realistic quality. The tired detectives, frustrated by yet more weird shootings and crazy, irrational behaviour to follow-up. Bewildered people that knew Ausonius and had to deal with him in person. Along with the victims themselves, the horribly unfortunate people shot at random and the people caught up in his other criminal behaviour.
Sad, sickening events that helped create a nasty climate in Sweden at that time.
Grim, of course, but it is also a high point in Swedish television production.
Syriana
A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company’s law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.
Good night and good luck
Good Night and Good Luck captures a moment in time.We look back on the fifties as a simpler time, our period of innocence.
This film tells us straight and true that it was no simpler and no more innocent than our lives today.In fact, the sharpest contrast drawn between today and back then is the intelligence and the literacy, the erudition and the commitment to the tenets of good journalism of Edward R. Murrow and his crew.I cannot picture a Brian Williams or anyone else telling the owner of the network, as Murrow tells Bill Paley, “I can’t make it to the game tonight. Thanks for inviting me, but I’m busy tearing down your network.” A flawlessly executed film, the acting ensemble well cast, the point clearly and eloquently made.
Brokeback mountain
Set against the sweeping vistas of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, this film tells the story of two young men – a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy – who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Touching story about impossible and forbidden love.
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