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Ghosts of Mars (2001)
it thrilled me
Why such low rates to this movie? It's one of the best science fiction of the last ten years. Inspired, visually elegant, thrilling. The actors are quite good for their role, and mostly Natasha Henstridge turns out to be a great action chick! I suggest this movie to anyone who's bored with ever-the-same action movies majors have been distributing in the last ten years.
American Psycho (2000)
A dreadful comic investigation of human mind...
Guys, you have to see this movie! Well, actually you'd better read the book first. You'll be shocked by the book. I'm not that delicate, and i'm used to fearful violent readings, but i admit i had to shut the book close, at times, cause i couldn't bear imagining the situations described in it.
The movie's softer. It explores the black-comedy side the book already had, conceiling and leaving to your imagination the massacres, the tortures, the killing. The movie won't show you Patrick murdering a kid at the zoo; it won't show you what Patrick does to his victims' eyes.
But it succeeds anyway in making you understand. In taking you to the place Bret Easton Ellis wanted to take you to: the misery and the social violence of the eighties will be in front of you. The emptiness, the shallowness and the stupidity of those years will be in front of your eyes, and you will get to understand how a young man could reach the point of imagining to perpetuate such indescribable crimes, of wishing it. He will imagine so, he will wish so just tell himself he's alive. Killing, murdering, torturing, raping...all those actions (beware, he only imagines them...) represent a form of rebellion against a superficial society, where business cards are status symbol, and where you'd better have a very elegant one in your pocket if you don't want to be rejected by society. Where persons don't have a name, don't have an identity...cause they all look the same... on that background, killing is living, torturing is shouting out at the world "look, i have a personality, i'm not just another one of those guys you see out there", raping is surviving.
The movie shows all that, with a lighter touch than the book but with almost the same effectiveness. Cold lights, perfect settings, good writing. And one last, important ingredient: a huge Christian Bale...his performance is stunning. He is Patrick Bateman, he is all of us.
Santa Maradona (2001)
the brilliantly told story of a guy my age, living in my city...what more could i ask?
I wish many of you will get the chance to see this movie. Why? 'Cause it's about a generation (mine...i was born in 1974) with very few things known for sure, full of doubts, asking for much and getting very little. Because it's been shot in my own town, Torino, in Italy: a wonderful city not yet appreciated as it should be, and here, in the movie, elegantly and properly photographed and shown. Because the story is brilliantly told, because the characters are as real as they can be in a movie. Because it's funny but not stupid. Because, though not flawless, it's a good movie, modern enough in its layout and accurate enough in the way it's written to be enjoyed by a wide (not decerebrate) audience.