george-parker183 Reviews

The Girl in the Book (2015)

Crucial contradiction.

[1/10 · 27 October 2016]

Why was Alice supposed to be able to stop Milan touching her when he tried to grope her breasts but was unable to stop him when he said that he wanted to make her come?

The contradiction was utterly stupid and pathetic and completely ruined the film.

Why did Milan, a middle-aged man go up to Alice, a sixteen year old girl and say "I want to make you come.", and start stroking her between her legs whilst ordering her in a cold tone of voice to keep her eyes open?

Was it because he wanted to treat her with love and affection and make her feel happy, excited, worthwhile, wanted and uplifted or because he wanted to treat her with contempt and make her feel unhappy, shocked, worthless, debased and degraded?

Why would an adult male want to treat a female with contempt and make her feel unhappy, shocked, worthless, debased and degraded?

Would it be because he felt worthless, debased and degraded himself at the thought that whereas he found her extremely desirable and attractive she didn't return the compliment, and that, as a result, he felt overwhelmed with humiliation, envy and resentment?

The Foreigner (2003)

A Clever and Enigmatic Thriller.

[9/10 · 22 April 2005]

"The Fugitive" is a very clever and enigmatic thriller, which I had to watch twice to understand. In the opening scene we see Dunoir beating up a Russian to get him to reveal where "the package" is, egged on by Jared, a renegade CIA man, and Alexander a Frenchman who tells us that he has been employed by "the client" to intercept it.

We are told by Dunoir that he has also been employed by "the client", but not to intercept the package, to kill EVERYBODY who has knowledge of it, the ominous significance of which some seem to fail to understand, both in the film and in the audience.

We infer from the fact that the client wants the package intercepted that it doesn't belong to him, but to somebody else from whom he wishes to steal it. We are told early on that the vendors are the Russians, presumably the Russian mafia, who are delivering it from Athens, where we find out later they stole it from the authorities. We are not told who the buyer is until the end, or why they want it, or why the client wants to stop their getting it.

Alexander has difficulty getting hold of the package, and so he turns to our hero Jonathan who is his good friend and beseeches him to help him out, which of course he does, reluctantly, "assisted" by Dunoir, and so the mystery begins.

Who is the buyer? Why do they want the package? Who is the client? Why do they want to stop the buyer getting the package? Our hero is now working for the client. Will he be able to get hold of the package and will he be able to deliver it safely to the client, or will the buyer be able to intercede? And how are the CIA involved with the client? There are lots of fireworks and they are decidedly impressive, as you would expect in this sort of film, and the fact that Dunoir takes the precaution of wearing a Kevlar bullet-proof jacket didn't come as any surprise to me. And the ending, in my opinion, is just perfect.