Pia-12

Gosh, this movie was a great surprise, because I can not remember when last I was amused and anticipating with a plot like I was with the Monsters Inc. There are hundreds of great little things in this movie. I particularly enjoyed that the Monsters company had taken recognizable characteristics of "normal" companies and mixed them with freaky monsters. Original ideas like contaminated socks never seemed fetched from too far. And apparently for translation into German not much of the original humor got lost. "We scare because we care" was also a funny rhyme - even in German. 10/10

I have seen this movie twice and it was all for the better because I could only follow some jokes in the Southern accents after having seen it before. Despite these difficulties I loved many sequences and my favourite scene is when John Torturro is screaming in the car because he feels that there are women nearby. Of course the frog scene is really hilarious ! Yet, I realized that antagonists who one can somehow still anticipate with are preferable. (Patricia Highsmith for instance even says this about her strange murderers, i.e. Mr. Ripley) The Coen brothers' choice seems another: To create nasty characters who are really disgusting. In my opinion this aim became too obvious, but it surely did not spoil this great masterpiece with its superbe soundtrack.

This movie consists of an amazing story and good story-telling and good photography. It is basically the main character's feeling of revenge which is very moving - I think many at least once in their life had emotions like the working class son in Selon Mathieu. This feeling of being weak against a superior power - and as a result the desire to revolt against it. After I have seen this movie I kept asking myself whether revenge could ever heal a broken heart or whether the suffering only just starts when you are looking for revenge. The actor of Mathieu is great - I liked his way of expressing without words. 8/10