Full Metal Jacket -
Watched it. Brutal movie about urban fighting and excess of authoritarism in weak minds and the consequences.
Good Morning Vietnam -
Watched it long time ago. The radio man is amazing, of course, because instead of acting comic, he played as good as in the Dead Poets Society.
Platoon -
Watched it and bought the DVD. I remember it was very good.
Hanoi Hilton -
Watched it this weekend. It talks about the POW and their life in urban confinement. I think that, bad as it was, it wasn't as bad as those that were imprisioned in the countryside.
Hamburger Hill -
Watched half of it last month... but doesn't look like I'll finish it. It didn't provide the ambiance
We Were Soldiers
The Deer Hunter
The Fog of War
Path To War
Born on The Fourth of July
Green Berets
Apocalypse Now -
Watched it long long time ago. I remember it was very good.
Casualties of War
The Killing Fields
Forest Gump -
Watched it years ago, and tbh, I didn't like Hanks doing it, but everyone seemed to love the movie, so what the heck... may be I was wrong.
Bright Shining Lie
Tigerland
Monday, February 1, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Ágora
On a rainy Monday I went to see Ágora.
I know my History, so I knew a few things about Hepatia, a phylosopher and astronomer living in the late roman times in Alexandria.
The movie is better than I thought. It pictures Alexandria as it should, in the convoluted times where pagans and christians were fighting for the spiritual (and more) control over Mankind. And how scientists typically live in a world of their own.
Most will see it as a movie against religion, namely christians, for being absolutist and intolerant.
I too see the movie as a warning against intolerance in general, and how science and religion had, and still have problems coexisting.
Intolerance, Hate, Jealousy, Power, Control.
Overall, I left the cinema thinking, once again, that 1700 years later, we haven't learned SHIT and we are still making the same mistakes over and over.
Man is a lower class mammal indeed.
I know my History, so I knew a few things about Hepatia, a phylosopher and astronomer living in the late roman times in Alexandria.
The movie is better than I thought. It pictures Alexandria as it should, in the convoluted times where pagans and christians were fighting for the spiritual (and more) control over Mankind. And how scientists typically live in a world of their own.
Most will see it as a movie against religion, namely christians, for being absolutist and intolerant.
I too see the movie as a warning against intolerance in general, and how science and religion had, and still have problems coexisting.
Intolerance, Hate, Jealousy, Power, Control.
Overall, I left the cinema thinking, once again, that 1700 years later, we haven't learned SHIT and we are still making the same mistakes over and over.
Man is a lower class mammal indeed.
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