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around with Cliff Booth, his easy going best
friend and longtime stunt double. Dalton also
happens to live next door to Roman Polanski
and Sharon Tate, the filmmaker and budding
actress whose future will forever be altered by
the members of the Manson Family.
This is Tarantino’s ninth film, making him only
one film away from retiring from filmmaking,
and it really shows that Tarantino has grown
up and matured a lot since his starting Indie
filmmaker days. This film also acts as a kind
of historical revenge fantasy like “Inglorious
Basterds,” another of Tarantino’s films.
The film also acts as a beautiful love letter
to the old days of Hollywood with call
appearances from actors of the time, references
and painstakingly recreated sceneries. You can
tell they were very proud of the sets they created
because shots and transitions tend to drag on for
too long and really makes one feel the almost
three hour run time. Tarantino is an amazing
filmmaker and this film is no exception, but it
is not one of his best.
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“Parasite” directed by Bong Joon-ho (Oct.
5, 2019) — Tells the story of the Park family,
the picture of aspirational wealth, and the Kim
family, rich in street smarts, but not much else,
as the Kim family soon implants themselves
into jobs within the Park family home. Soon, a
symbiotic relationship is formed with one family
providing services and the other one payment,
but when a parasitic interloper threatens
the Kims’s newfound comfort, a savage,
underhanded battle for dominance breaks out,
threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem
between the Kims and the Parks.
This film is from South Korea and is made in
the language as well, but if you think that having
to read subtitles is a bother or a distraction from
a film, then this film will prove you wrong as it
has absolutely no trouble relaying its message at
all. “Parasite” is a beautifully made critique on
the large societal class divide between the upper
and lower classes, and it masterfully displays the
extreme lengths that people may go to to gain a
better life for themselves and their family.
The film starts off as one thing and then
mutates into something completely different,
new and original. Every step of the way the
audience will be on the edge of their seats and
never able to guess what will happen next as the
film progresses and becomes more and more
unnerving and darkly twisted.
“The Irishman” directed by Martin Scorsese
(Nov. 17,2019) — Takes place in the 1950s, and
tells the true story of tmck driver Frank Sheeran
as he gets involved with Russell Bufalino and
his Pennsylvania crime family. As Sheeran
climbs up the ranks to become a top hit man, he
also goes to work for Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful
Teamster tied to organized crime.
This film sees the amazing return of many
famous people, including Robert DeNiro, A1
Pacino, Joe Pesci and Martin Scorsese to the
mobster crime genre that they all help to define
in the film industry.
The film works in the special effects of
“deaging technology” DeNiro and Pesci
throughout a good amount of the film, but, unlike
some movies in the past, it doesn’t look bad or
distract from the film much at all after getting
used to it. Another positive aspect of this film
is that it does more than tell a story of the mob
while glorifying its activities, but it actually
humanizes the characters and works them up to
be more three-dimensional than ones in a lot of
films in this genre.
“Little Women” directed by Greta Gerwig
(Dec. 25, 2019) — Based on Louisa May
Alcott’s novel that takes place in the years after
the Civil War and tells the story of Jo March
who lives in New York and makes her living as
a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting
in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with
Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo
but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling,
Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy
sister Beth develops a devastating illness that
brings the family back together.
This film is a light and warm hearted coming
of age story and also a very faithful adaptation
of the novel. It very much showcases a strong
and maybe even too positive bond of siblings
and sisterhood. Add in great performances from
a few well known actors and you have a possibly
timeless film that someone of any age can enjoy.
“Jojo Rabbit” directed by Taika Waititi (Oct.
18,2019) — Based on the novel “Caging Skies”
by Christine Leunens, the film tells the story of
Jojo, a lonely German boy in the Hitler Youth
program who discovers that his single mother
is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only
by his imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must
confront his blind nationalism as World War II
continues to rage on.
While many people said, and continue to say,
that a comedy involving Nazis and Hitler is
in bad taste, this film shows that in the proper
hands it can be done correctly and very well.
And while much of the focus has been on the
comedic aspect of the film and how it is being
portrayed, the film has a much more serious,
deeper and important message by showing that
even the most indoctrinated people are capable
of a change for the better.
“Marriage Story” directed by Noah
Baumbach (Dec. 6, 2019) — Tells the story of
a stage director and his actor wife’s struggle
through a gruelling, coast to coast divorce
while also trying to keep the family somewhat
together that pushes them to their personal and
creative limits.
This film takes a raw and very emotional look
at the events of divorce and portrays them very
realistically and impressively. What really helps
make this film so vivid and amazing are the
powerful performances from Adam Driver and
Scarlett Johannsen in the main roles. This film
is sure to bring out a wide range of emotions in
anyone watching.
The Oscars will air live Sunday, Feb. 9, at 8
p.m. on ABC.