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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Restored my faith in cinema
I'm too dumbfounded to express my feelings about this masterpiece. Beautiful, disturbing, and epic come to mind. It has been too long since we have seen this kind of film-making. The director did an amazing...AMAZING...job. This film is like bringing a painting to life while the story told us horrors and sadness. The lead character rarely spoke during the 2 hours and 40 minutes yet conveyed depth that we haven't seen since Edward Scissorhands (bad comparison but you get the point). I was impressed with the level of drawn out drama and suspense without losing focus or the audience. There are few moments that didn't jive with me but overall, I was swept up by it. Dustin Hoffman did a great job with his role and provided a lightness to a rather dark movie. Great work to you, Tom & team!
TV Junkie (2006)
A doc that uses a functioning addicts video diaries to express the unique downward slide of a successful
3000 hours of unwatched and unedited video diaries wrangles together a downward spiral of a typically unexamined functioning cocaine --- then crack --- addict & how he remains loyal to his drugs as apposed to his beautiful home, supportive wife and two young boys. you want to route for him, you start to get angry at him for throwing away his good life including his family. then when you see has dedicated a period of time for drugs and a period of time for "the white picket fence", the audience begins to experience the real life contradiction and internal struggle of this ex inside edition adventure anchor man. we stumble alongside him as he tuns to the violent, 'evil" crazy drug dad. screaming kids are being seen as the police pull him way while he tells his crying son "mom's going to say bad things about daddy but don't you believe her. Remember I aways love you. Now the cops are coming to take dad away...." *more screams from the boys* without give away to conclusion of this doc, it is worth watching every moment with hope, disgust, optimism, and hatred. Worth watch or to give as a gift to someone you know that could be helped by seeing this done man's too common yet oft not seen struggle to beat addiction in an previously unaccessed personal style. Would make any teenager (or ANY audience member) no want to try or do drugs for any reason...EVER. Be happy for what you have....
Doppelganger (2001)
Interesting & Engaging
It's great to see two young stars featured in this interesting and engaging thriller. Although the concept is a little "done", I think the producers overall did a good job with it. Production values are quite nice and the acting is convincing.