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The innocence that done wrong, that's how New York past 9/11 always felt to me and this movie capture this feeling pretty well. Starting with Norton as Monty - sympathetic guy, with enough smarts to float above the waters for a long time, dealing hard drugs 24h a day for years, and now its time to sink way down - way 7 years in prison down. The title 25th Hour is a time for him to put things in order and say bye to life that will never happened. Its sober piece about greed, paranoia and cold truth of reality that will catch every lie in the end. Whole cast is great (Norton, Pepper, Hoffman, Dawson, Paquin, Cox), what they did with the story is commendable. Cinematography is all right, as well as editing (but those quick double cuts almost ruin it). What's most important direction is on point - energetic picture with actors that have a room to breath. It's one of the Spike Lee better movies.

The Fountain – I was waiting for this flick for a long time, it showed so much promise. First of all the story – eternal love, reincarnation, the tree of live – its just my kind of a movie. Second – the director Aranofsky – he was after requiem a great white hope for me – brave and poetic. Third – the cast Jackman was always dependable, and I admire Weisz (so strong in Shape of things). So i was very impatient to see this flick. The trailer just sharpen my appetite. And then i saw it, and felt bad – because i really wanted to like this movie, but i cannot. The story had a promise but it was really badly structure and the three stories – past-present-future didn't connect for me as smooth as they should – so the revelation at the end was pretty predictable and instead of catharsis I felt a a little bit intrigue, but whole more bored – and that is coming for a guy who could watch Tarkovski any time of a day. The acting is OK, but given a bad story it cant rise above and its such a shame (what could have been is shown clearly in bathtub scene) because this movie could be next 2001, instead its movie with pretty pictures, nice music, nice story with bad screenplay and self-indulge direction.

When "Hedwig and Angry Inch" had premiere, I pass it up. Didn't like the subject (drag queen) so much, that I didn't have a need for this kind of movie. Six years later and the movie was still getting good reviews, so I checked it out. I was amazed, how hard movie about drag queen can rock. I can't stop listening to the songs from that movie months after the show (Origin of love for example), so Shortbus was must see. This movie is prefect blend of controversial Larry Clark with sensibility of Michel Gondry. The main problem described here is sex dressed up as love, and love dressed up as sex. We have story of few people – (straight couple, gay couple, dominatrix and her pet) that connect with each other in New York underground clubhouse called Shortbus. First of all – beware – this is as much graphic as it gets (gay shooting load into his mouth) but underneath it are real people, real problems, and a lot of truth about relationships in present times – its just like one drag queen says here "It's just like the 60's. Only with less hope". So its shocking, but sincere slices of lives of John Mitchel Cameron and his friends in search for a blessed orgasm. If you like "Hedwig" this is must see, but if you easily offend by the gay stuff beware – this one really goes overboard sometimes, just like Larry Clark.