I'll be putting film reviews of films I've enjoyed and that I suggest you enjoy. In the theaters or on home video if it's a good film I'll review it.
The Godfather
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
This is the story of Don Vito Corleone's family
and the family business. This film defined the mafia film genre and immortalized it with the perfection of a circle. Don Corleone doesn't want to move into the drug business, he also doesn't want the drug business to move in on him. His opposition takes the form of a rival family. With an attempt made on his life the Don becomes furious.
All the actors gathered together in character before shooting the film and sat down at a Italian resturant to eat together as a family. Just to name a few there was Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, and Richard Castellano. They all made names for themselves doing other things after the film, but this is where they got their break. If you haven't seen this movie you need to see a
doctor.
The Clockwork Orange
directed by Stanley Kubrick
While The French Connection won the award for best picture Clorkwork Orange was nominated and rightfully so. Kubrick's 1972 classic as dramatic as it was violent.
This is the story of a young punk with a sinister demeanor and nihlist's mind. His name is Alex de Large. The movie opens with Alex, played by Malcom McDowell, sit in a club with a few friends sipping milk-plus and hallucinating themselves into ultra-violence. Alex committs various crimes on society from rape, to breaking and entering, to assualt and battery. He comes from a disfunctional home where his actions are minimized and forgotten. He is looked down upon by all except for his gang.
The set design, the costume design, even the lighting all play a role in this very unforgettable film.
The film also ask's an important question " How can modern society's hope to eradicate evil? " In the film
Alex is arrestted and made into a mechanical being of sorts. The government studies him and experiments on him, till he gets to the point where a mere thought of a violent action makes him phyisically ill. He then becomes the poster boy for the experiments and is sent back home. His former life then catches up with him and he attempts suicide.
Though the graphic nature of the film it does maintain an artistic direction. This is a movie that will open your mind to ideas which might seem inconcievable to you at the start. I definantly feel its worth watching.