Category: Films

My list of watched films

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Ex Machina (2014)

I watched Ex Machina for the first time last night. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it but someow I never got around to watching it.

It was amazing!

It’s a film about a programmer who have managed to build an AI and now wants to know if it has a conscience mind like a human being.

Alicia Vikander plays her character Ava beautifully, and throughout the film I was amazed by her facial expressions. She has her character completely under control. During the entire film I was so convinced about her intensions. I apparently only believe in the good in people, on the other hand Ava – the AI – is not human.

The excentric Nathan who has developed Ava is constantly a person whom you adore and hate, because of his ability to involve Caleb and his drunk periods. And as in many films I belived every now and then that he actually is the bad guy.

Caleb is very convincing as well as the talented programmer who is there to do the Turing test on Ava to see if she has her own conscience. His youth and innoscence toward Avas flirting is like watching a first love. He falls in love with her the moment he sees her.

Go watch it. It’s an amazing film!

 

Deus Ex Machina is latin for God from the machine. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina

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La femme Nikita

The french film back from 1990 written and directed by Luc Besson is a film about a convicted – Nikita –  and the choice she is given to be an assassin for the french government. She chooses to accept the offer and during her training she is molded into a pretty and perfect assassin designed for killing at command.

Soon after she is releashed back into the world she mets a man and they fall in love and they enjoy life together, until she gets the first call …Josephine?.. It becomes increasingly more difficult their relationship as he wants to know her better and she cannot give him any answers about her previous life.

However the person that she was before cannot seem to let her go, and the assassin life is not for her, and she disapears.

You see a woman who desparetly trying to get a hold of her life and yet it crumbles right in front of her. The scene where Josephine is to shot the woman through the bathroom window and Marco talks to her through the door, is absolutely heartbreaking. She was Josephine and Marie at the same time, professional and the woman in love.

No one in the film comes out of the story without serious scars, she leaves her love Marco, Marco is left behind alone, Bob is left a tortured man from his unreturned feelings for Nikita and she is gone.

La femme Nikita is not an action movie, so if you expect that you will be dissapointed. There are action scenes but it’s not the essence of the film.

Jean Reno – whom I adore and admire  – has a role as the cleaner. I have never ever watched a film with him where he disappoints me. He always always does a brilliant job and so also in this film.

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Jaws

This is one of my alltime favourites!

I don’t know exactly what it is, but this is close to a perfect film. The casting is good, the music fits, that 70’s vibe, the sounds..

Everybody (red. a lot of filminterested people) knows where that dadadada sounds comes from. You just know the shark is somewhere near. And the bell ringing on the buoy as the only sound with the waves silently lapping against the buoy.

The scene where they sit at the table after dinner and Quint start singing “Spanish ladies” and Quint and Hooper tell stories about the war and broken hearts. Each one having scars to tell their story.

Roy Schneider may just have been one of my first film actor crushes. He played in Cheif Martin Brody this strong and silent type. If he said it, it was done, he showed the loving father side and he faced his fears and went on a ship eventhough he was terrifed of water. And he managed to pull off these large 70s glasses, you gotta love that.

Yes, I know the shark wasn’t super fantastic made, I think they did a mighty fine job thinking of that the film was made in the 1975. But the film generate a feeling as if you standing right on the beach of Amity Island. You feel the anxiety of the people, you can feel the panic and sudden relief when you believe the shark has been caught in the beginning of the film. You feel for the shark or at least I did.

It’s just one of those films I can watch again and again.