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Old 02-26-2004, 03:04 PM   #35 (permalink)
Lotronex
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So many good movies, so many moving moments...
The Fifth Element: at the end in the temple "I dont know love...".
The Messenger: the taking of Orleans and the dialouge with Joan's conscionse/God/Devil
Any movie where Mel Gibson makes a speech, hes just got great presencse.
Chasing Amy: After Holden breaks up with her, Alyssa's reaction in the parking lot, very emotional.
Battle Royale: Best movie ever!!! If you actually look past the gore, a beautiful film develops, and just shows human behavior at its best and worst. A class of 42 middle school Japanese students is abducted by the goverment and forced to kill each other until there is only one survivor.
Mitsuko, an outsider who was forced into prostituion by her parents, kills her schoolmates. She becomes ruthless to try and prove that she is not worthless.(Dying words: "I just didn't want to be a loser anymore")
THe person everyone picks on becomes paranoid and kills everyone he sees.
The clique of popular girls unite for peace, but in an instant the mistrust turns on them and the kill each other.
Others call for peace, and are killed for it.
Kawada is a survivor of a previous round, and devotes himself to finding out the meaning of Keiko's smile. "things changed when there was only the two of us left...BANG...BANG...thank you"
Shuya devotes himself to protecting the girl his best friend had a crush on.
Others refuse to fight, and simply commit suicide.
The movie offers so much more than the gore that people know it for. The characters are given 3 days to live, and the movie shows the wide variety of things tha happen.
While it is very short on humor, the drama that progresses will change you if you let it. The deaths of some characters can make you cry, others just sympathy, while others you feel they deserve it.
This thread is about moving moments, the kind that change you, and if ever a film captured them, it would be Battle Royale.
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