Xparanoid

If some directors make the cut into stardom and acknowledge maybe this isn't the gold for Raoul Ruiz. This great chilean director is one of the best on making a film completely out of new processed lines of ideas, brave imaginary and a perfectly narrated line of events that are shocking sometimes and very recreational through the whole story. In this film Catherine Deneuve shows her grace with a comfortably effortless acting being a legal attorney who solves a mystery on an assassination of a remarkable psychologist. Sometimes you see her good side, the intrigued professional that tries to form a bind with her young client Rene, the first suspect on the murder of his aunt the psychologist, but sometimes you get to see nothing but the real game. That is the true central object of the plot, about how the truth come to reveal to ourselves by being other people, or better said, by placing ourselves in other's perspective. Big twist at the end, and it was before our eyes every time.

*notice the great adjustements on the camera lens through the film. Some filters and a half of screen out of focus with traveling at the same time!!

but... in the end of the movie when the hobbits arrive to the shire in the original book they encounter to the shire ruled by Saruman.. in my opinion its a total offense to the book and their fans because the fight between the hobbits and saruman his very important to the hobbits. They leave the shire being a cowards but when return they are totally changed in the sense of warrior spirit and courage. Anyway the movie is excellent.

If we think that any of Oliver Stone's films is a trip to the center of the Heart behind the mind we are speaking the right idea. Certainly in this understimated film we can see more the great analysis and art-work in the realization of a masterpiece than a project being starred by mighty-powerful actors and well structured. I believe there's something inside Nixon (the character) that we all can understand, besides the lies and the secrets that he was hiding...we see more than anything a regular human being, with all the goods and wrongs, with a perfectly worked way when it comes to planify something, behind the scandal, behind the material, behind the power, we can see a heart of a grown men becoming trash for what he's fighting for...and that's just sad.

Joan Allen giving one of the gratest performances (after Pleasantville i think ) she indeed deseved the Academy Award and Mary Steenburgen desrved at least a nod same as Paul Sorvino or James Woods. Too bad when it comes to great ensembles very few people can see the hard work that every actor is giving to try to become that very special unit that carries the all story. What i really like of this types o Stone's films is the footage that he's capable of put in together so wondefully (Brian Berdan and hank Corwin congrats appart)it really hit me. Oother reason for seein'it the ones who hasn't seen the picture yet is the incredible and amazinnnnnngggg performance of Sir Anthony Hopkins. I thought he was Nixon. Really the way of structure the character for him it seems really easy and just comes natural. The geisture of the Smile and the voice it's just brilliant. A+. FAVORITE SCENE : When Nixon is at the hall with the JFK painting in the back and he turns his back slowly.