They say that film is a powerful medium. But when was the last time you continued to think about a movie days after you saw it? Well it just happened to me after having seen James Cameron’s new film Avatar. Avatar tells the story of Pandora, a distant planet in the year 2154 where there [...]
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It’s A Wonderful Life
At least that’s what a movie by that title, considered a classic of American cinema, wants us to believe. George Bailey, the hero of the film powerfully acted by James Stewart, finally decides upon suicide as his only recourse to solve his financial problems. Because he has a $15,000 life insurance policy he feels he’s [...]
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino’s new movie made me wonder what Jewish “vengeance” should look like. If you were a Jew in Germany in the 1940s what would you have done? You would have fought back, right? You wouldn’t have gone like a sheep to the slaughter. You would have joined the resistance and showed the Nazis that [...]
