sanguine_sailor
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Very informative film about just how corrupt the reasons for the UK going to war with the US in Iraq were, based on Blair's kowtowing to Bush and a certain damning document which demanded to be leaked.
Buoyed by an excellent performance by Kiera Knightly in the lead role, it doesn't over-dramatise reality and just let's events play out mostly as they happened.
The end result is an engrossing film and a good history lesson in one, and you wish today's politicians displayed an ounce of the courage that Catherine Gunn did.
Essential viewing. 8/10
Buoyed by an excellent performance by Kiera Knightly in the lead role, it doesn't over-dramatise reality and just let's events play out mostly as they happened.
The end result is an engrossing film and a good history lesson in one, and you wish today's politicians displayed an ounce of the courage that Catherine Gunn did.
Essential viewing. 8/10
Considering I know little about the group N.W.A and their chequered history going into this movie, it held my attention well enough.
Who knew such musical luminaries as Dr. Dre and Ice Cube had such interesting pasts? I wasn't aware of Eazy E before, but poor guy. And obviously, the music is wall-to-wall rap, so if that's your jam prepare yourself for an aural treat.
And that's not even to mention the constant violence and bad language... but I suppose, considering the rough neighbourhood these guys came from, the racism of the police and the various 'grudges' the group members had along the way, it does kinda come with the territory.
This genre of music and gang culture is not really my thing, but by the end of this two-and-a-half hour 'epic' I didn't feel bored, and indeed I was quite enlightened as to what life was like during this period in history when N.W.A's and their contemporaries music began making it big.
Or in the unique wording of our profane protagonists 'this is DOPE'. 6/10
Who knew such musical luminaries as Dr. Dre and Ice Cube had such interesting pasts? I wasn't aware of Eazy E before, but poor guy. And obviously, the music is wall-to-wall rap, so if that's your jam prepare yourself for an aural treat.
And that's not even to mention the constant violence and bad language... but I suppose, considering the rough neighbourhood these guys came from, the racism of the police and the various 'grudges' the group members had along the way, it does kinda come with the territory.
This genre of music and gang culture is not really my thing, but by the end of this two-and-a-half hour 'epic' I didn't feel bored, and indeed I was quite enlightened as to what life was like during this period in history when N.W.A's and their contemporaries music began making it big.
Or in the unique wording of our profane protagonists 'this is DOPE'. 6/10
The make-up in this movie is a marvel. Tom Riley (also playing a guy called Tom Ray, Natch) sure looks like he's got a disfigured face and four missing limbs. Poor fellow.
He contracts sepsis after eating some out-of-date sausages which cause his immune system to overreact (yes I did my homework after the movie was over) and, upon returning home, immediately starts taking out his anger on his family. Not their fault, dude.
This, as you can well imagine, creates a rift... and Starfish is at it's best when it shows the breakdown of this once happy brood. His wife is no longer physically attracted to him, his young daughter no longer recognises him and his newborn son... well, he's just a baby. He doesn't get a vote.
The film also shows Tom's struggle to adapt physically to having four new prosthetics to deal with, and the actor's movement is almost enough to convince you he has them under his clothes. Less persuasive is others reaction to his new appearance and gait... in the hard world we live in now, I think he'd get a bit worse treatment than one boy staring at him in a newsagent.
If nothing else, we're reminded of the salient fact that life can change in an instant and we should make the most out of every second. Starfish isn't a great movie, but it educates and entertains and won't leave your head anytime soon. 6/10
He contracts sepsis after eating some out-of-date sausages which cause his immune system to overreact (yes I did my homework after the movie was over) and, upon returning home, immediately starts taking out his anger on his family. Not their fault, dude.
This, as you can well imagine, creates a rift... and Starfish is at it's best when it shows the breakdown of this once happy brood. His wife is no longer physically attracted to him, his young daughter no longer recognises him and his newborn son... well, he's just a baby. He doesn't get a vote.
The film also shows Tom's struggle to adapt physically to having four new prosthetics to deal with, and the actor's movement is almost enough to convince you he has them under his clothes. Less persuasive is others reaction to his new appearance and gait... in the hard world we live in now, I think he'd get a bit worse treatment than one boy staring at him in a newsagent.
If nothing else, we're reminded of the salient fact that life can change in an instant and we should make the most out of every second. Starfish isn't a great movie, but it educates and entertains and won't leave your head anytime soon. 6/10