Paris, Munich, and Another Place with Crazy People (At The Movies)
Well, it certainly has been a crazy week last week. So much school work this week for some reason, and there has been a lot of crazy projects and readings that have to be done for classes. Stressing, I'll say! But I took a nice chunk of the weekend to relax and rejuvenate for another week. Besides exploring some of the north side of Chicago, chillin with some good friends, and doing good old homework, I got the chance to sit back, relaz, and enjoy some movies. Two of them are already on DVD and one is now out in theatres. So here are some movies to check out!:
The first movie I watched this weekend was Paris, je t'aime, which came out in 2006 and is directed by, well, 22 directors. This movie is a collection of short films, each directed by different directors. This collection of shorts tells different stories that take place in Paris. Some are in English, some are in French, with a bit of Spanish, and all with the theme of love, love of the city and love of one another. Happy, sad, artistic, griddy, fun, horror, comedy, life, everything! It really is a great movie to see. I think my two favorite are: 1. The Coen Brother's short film about a man (played by Steve Buscemi) and his "misadventure" at a Paris subway stop and 2. German writer-director Tom Tykwer about a relationship between a blind man (played by Mechior Beslon) and his girlfriend (played by Natalie Portman). This is definitely a film (or I guess, technically, films) that is soooo worth a watch. I had watched it my freshman year in college with my good friend John, for the first time and fell in love with it but never got around to see it again! Well, this past weekend, I finally got around to it! It put me in such a traveling mood. One day, I will visit that beautiful city.
The second movie I saw was Munich, directed by Steven Spielberg, released in 2005. This film, based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by the Canadian Journalist George Jonas, tells the story of the killing of 11 Israeli athletes by the terrorist group Black September, and the Israeli Government's secret response, where a small team organized by the Israeli government, led by Avner Kaufman (played by Eric Bana), is given names of certain targets that were involved in Black September and the attacks and are told to eliminate them. This cast includes Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, and a bunch of other great actors. This film is really amazing and the story is really involved and interesting, telling about an important event in history where not every single question is answered. It will keep you on the edge of your seat as things get heated, and it is a great film. I remember seeing this film for the first time and falling in love with it and finding it amazingly interesting! I'm glad I got a chance to watch it again!
The last film that I have seen this weekend was actually in theatres, which I got to catch with one of my roommates and some friends this weekend. And that movie is: Hall Pass, directed by the Farrelly Brothers. This movie was pretty funny! It is definitely more of a "guy movie", but is worth the watch! It's about two best friends, Rick (played by Owen Wilson) and Fred (played by Jason Sudeikis) who are a tad bit shallow and are having a bit trouble with their marriges. So their wives (Rick's wife, Maggie, is played by Jenna Fischer and Fred's wife, Grace, is played by Christina Applegate) decide to give them a "Hall Pass" for a week, in which they are allowed to take a "break" from their marriages and able to do whatever they want without any guilt. And from there, the misadventures begin! It definitely had a bunch of great laughs. I can't say it was my favorite movie of all time, but it definitely was not at all a bad movie, and I'm really glad I got to see it!
Well, that's all for now! Time to get back to homework : ( Yeah, I hate it too...errrr. Life. Well, I'll leave the trailers at the bottom of this post to the movies I mentioned! Hope you all check out these films one of these days. I'm sure I'll be back posting here in the very near future! : ) see ya'll later! PEACE!
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